Granite Chins - What Fighters Smashed...

Or Dempsey for that matter...

 

Uniquely Miske. Nobody else dropped Billy before or after Benton Harbor. Willard, prime Bat Levinski for the count years before anybody else could manage it. (In the period from February 1910 to January 1929, a span covering about 285 bouts, only Dempsey and then Carp were able to to this to Bat.)

He knocked out Brennan twice before Firpo then Miske (in the final match for both Miske and Brennan) were also able to pull it off.

Firpo was stopped in just his second match by 25-0-0 Angel Rodriguez. He would be retired in two by Godoy nearly 20 years later. But during his prime, only Dempsey did this.

Now, here's something you didn't see everyday!:

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Love that Valdez ko..what a beauty!!:good

 

Funny thing is before Tommy fought Hagler, I thought no way could he hurt Hagler. After seeing them fight I thought that had Tommy not broken his right hand, the leverage and style of Tommy fighting could have stopped Marvin, especially when and if Marvin turned to righty, since I knew that had Marvin been southpaw that meant Tommy would hit him more straight on and Marvin had great neck muscles to absorb it, but a side punch to the chin or to the top of Marvin's head like Tommy hit Marvin with did hurt him which would be more open if Marvin fought righty. That was Marvin bread and butter his left stance, yet his righty came in handy at the end of fights. Before Marvin fought Mugabi, I saw the Hargrove fight. Mugabi punched with wild punches, yet I thought if he can hit Marvin with those punches he could stop him since that punch could stop anyone. Well as it turns out, John fought a much more cautious fight with shorter punches than he did before. Which was probably why he lasted the distance, yet he did not throw those haymakers which if landed could have even knocked out a Marvin Hagler kind of chin. But Hagler did well. He took the punches of Hearns and Mugabi and proved that he had the best chin in boxing at the time. After seeing those two fights, I doubt even Julian Jackson could have stopped Marvin. I doubt it. He had an incredible chin which was so great because of how well built Marvin was and how strong he was in a compact way. He was not short for a middleweight, but not tall at all and probably under the average at 5-9 1/2. but he was well distributed and a solid strong build to absorb any punch.

 

Bar Miske and Willard i wouldn't call any of other of those mentioned "granite chins" and Willard was 38 y/o hadn't fought in years and had no defense.

Awesome KO btw, amazing Monzon managed to soak up anything Valdez could dish out without much problem now thats a granite chin! :good

 

Edwin Rosario was mentioned. Edwin had that power to stun a solid chinned guy. Bramble did show he could take a punch since most guys could not take those punches from Edwin, but the problem was he didn't have the defense to block to slip those punches and he was hit with everything Edwin had. That fight showed how underrated Edwin was and complete and how a little overrated Bramble was. Either way, Edwin had the power to stop solid chinned guys. One last point which I is about strong chins. Doug Dewitt was seen as a solid chinned guy. He fought Hearns in October of 1986. Took all his punches and went 12 with Tommy and lost a decision. Then in the next fight he fights on ESPN against a guy I forget his name, It just came to me a little. Quinones I think could be his name. And Doug was knocked out in 3 rounds or so. I wondered if Tommy softened up his chin. Either way surprising. Doug chin was never that great after that.

 

Red C,,,,,,,,,

Excellente',,,,,,,,,,:good

That was, without a doubt the best Knock-Out over a granite chin.

Bennie had a rock-granite chin, with steel I-Beam implants.

Nobody had ever put a dent in it.

 

Lee Savold was only stopped once in his long career until his last two bouts where he was kayoed by the comebacking Joe Louis in six rounds then TKOed in his final fight against Marciano.

George Chuvalo had his orbital bone crushed by a patented Joe Frazier lefthook. That was said to be the first time Chuvalo had been in any kind of serious distress in a fight up until then and possibly ever. He had said that Foreman's brutal assault in 1970 didn't hurt him. He was only 'warming up.'