James Toney vs Chris Eubank Better Chin?

brnxhands · Aug 10, 2012

anabolics dont help your chin bro sorry to burst your bubble. vargas says hi

atberry said: ↑

Eubank took a lot of hard shots against Benn in their first fight and Watson in their second fight, one-legged against Calzaghe and when he became one-eyed against Thompson, but apart from those he never took much punishment in his career, certainly was rarely caught with two shots in a row (and was actually never caught with a range-finding left jab), such was his subtle reflexes.

Toney took some hard clean head blows against Sosa and Barkley and got caught frequently against Jones, and he remained upright and got off the floor to win against Reggie Johnson, and took Peter's heavy blows although he didn't have a neck, had 100lbs of fat holding him up, and was chemically enhanced by then. He had chin and heart, no doubt.

But Eubank for me. Some of the shots he took from Benn would've KO'd pretty much any middleweight it seemed, and Watson put everything into every punch for 11 rounds and didn't stop punching and landing! 210lb, ripped Thompson loaded up the right hand and Eubank couldn't see it coming due to his closed eye from the thumb, and simply would soak it right up and fire right back! Unreal!
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atberry · Aug 10, 2012

brnxhands said: ↑

anabolics dont help your chin bro sorry to burst your bubble. vargas says hi
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Can give you much stronger neck muscles, though.

atberry · Aug 10, 2012

sas6789 said: ↑

I don't know about that, Watson's punches were clearly hurting him, but like i said there's other factors to take into consideration Toney has fought at every weight from middle to heavy and fought top calibre opposition over a 16 year period and has never been stopped in well over 80 fights and has only been down twice to the best of my knowledge, Eubank was only down 4 times (although two of them were arguably slips) to my knowledge, ok i know Toney had a much better defense but still that is impressive on both counts
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Eubank was down five times - Greg George (shoved, straight up), Benn I (balance, straight up), Watson II (one knee, straight up), Collins I (balance, straight up), and Calzaghe (cold, straight up).

Bobo · Aug 10, 2012

atberry said: ↑

Can give you much stronger neck muscles, though.
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Toney always had a thick neck, which is probably why he could take a punch so well and his head barely moved. even at middleweight. and I deny he was on anything for those Peter fights.

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