Fighters with great chins...

Well, there's always journeymen types like Marion Wilson who usually don't get any attention when people talk about the best chins of all time.

 

Kevin Finnegan.

 

Brief summaries on some of the punches each one of them took?

Loi was never even off his feet in a hundred plus fights, correct?

 

Juan Laporte had without question the best chin I've ever seen.

Cobb deserves mention, as does McCullough. Chavez when he was young.

Sanchez had a marvel of a chin, though I understand he was floored once and nearly stopped in one fight. I'd love to see that one, but I don't think film exists of it.

 

What's Laporte done to deserve that distinction?

 

...........Going up against people like Chavez, Tszyu, McGuigan, Gomez, Nelson, Mario Miranda, Lockridge, Sanchez, Pedroza, Murray......I'm missing a few for sure. Absorbed the shots of every worthwhile fighter from 126-140 over a decade or more, and I not only never saw him floored or hurt; I never saw him even really bothered by any punch he ever took. If you were an up-and-comer in that era in those weight classes, you had to go through him. He was stopped in his last fight against Zack Padilla, but that was only because he just leaned against the ropes without doing anything, and the ref decided to stop the one-sided fight. He wasn't even really hurt.

 

Wow... Heh, yeah, sounds about right then.

Thanks.

 

Marvin Hagler CAN'T BELIVE THAT HE WASN'T THE FIRST TO BE MENTIONED.

 

Hagler is well known.

 

George Chuvalo is at the top of my list.
Nobody could put him down.
Neither Even Forman or Frazier could do --- and that was when they were at their best.

 

Sixto Escobar...never down in his career.

 

It was in Sal's draw against Juan Escobar. Now this was his first match in the U.S., and it was held in Los Angeles, at the Olympic, so I would imagine that footage does exist of it. His ability to take a punch at his peak may be more a manifestation of his exquisite conditioning.

Tony Galento was only dropped by Joe Louis (so far as I can determine), and that was in Two-Ton's 105th match. Tony could well be the only heavyweight to go for over a hundred matches without getting decked. Many times, when somebody with a chin like that does have it fail for the first time, the match is over. To Galento's eternal credit, he came off the floor to return the favor, the only opponent to ever achieve that trick against one of the greatest finishers in HW history.

The difference between a hard puncher and a great puncher is the difference between Louis and the Baer brothers. The Bomber could put his punches together like nobody else. In Tony's next three matches, Lou Nova, Max Baer and Buddy Baer failed to land Galento (although Maxie and Buddy were able to record stoppage wins over him), and each of them has been described as a harder hitter than Louis, punch for punch.

Louis decked Uzcudun in Paulino's 70th bout, with the hardest punch Joe ever delivered. Although Uzcudun couldn't continue, he did beat the count, much to Louis's shock and amazement.

Victor Galindez and Mike Rossman are two others noted for having steel chins before their championship careers ended. Willie "The Bull" Taylor withstood all of Mike Spinks's hardest punches. Spinks was afraid his hands would break when the referee finally intervened.