Lennox Lewis had an Iron chin

Compared to Fraudley, perhaps.

But otherwise, it's pretty suspect.:yep

 

Well it seems to me it has to at least be taken into account.

Look at it this way, someone like Lewis may have been hit solidly in the chin well over a 1,000 times in his career which isn't an unreasonable number given the number of fights he had, probably on the low side. So he was decked twice. That's a ratio of .2%. I suppose to determine the exact quality of a fighters chin you'd have to perform that exercise with everyone to determine what the ratio would be for a cast iron chin, a good chin, a average chin, and weak chin. Then you'd have to adjust it for the type of punchers a particular fighter faced. Obviously this isn't likely to be done.

But I can say that given the type of fighters Lewis faced, and the number of punches he took, his chin would have had to be at least average or above. Course I think the same applies to Foreman, Frazier, Liston, Louis, Dempsey and the rest of them.

 

You kidding man!? They were bloody lucky, that's all.

 

It can't be called suspect when it's only let him down twice in his career. If I had a car that started thousands of times and it only failed to start twice I wouldn't call it suspect. I'd call it pretty reliable but not foolproof and that's exactly how Lewis's chin should be termed as.

 

Ah but the thing is Lewis has taken a lot more than 38 hard punches in his career...

 

Iron chin? No way.

Iron chin is taking the right hand Sam Peter took from McCline in the third round, only to get up and win the fight.

You'd never see Lewis come back from a punch like that. :yep

 

To say he had an iron chin is just silly. His chin was underrated, and he did take some great shots. He got KOed by legitimate HW KO artists, with punches that would KO most HW's. His chin was solid, above average.

 

I've often had the feeling that Lennox Lewis's chin was suspect when he underestimated his opponent. I think he took Oliver McCall too lightly, and he seemed to be clowning against Hasim Rahman before he got chinned.

Against Tyson, he was undoubtedly better prepared, and would have had the adrenelin coursing through him more than he would have had against an opponent he didn't consider much of a threat. Raw adrenelin does something to a fighter. Look at Nigel Benn against Gerald McClellan, for example. He took some murderous shots and survived, where he'd been badly wobbled by much lesser opponents several times in the past.

I think Lennox was similar in this sense.

He was strong against the more dangerous opponents, e.g Morrison, Tyson, Ray Mercer, to name a couple.

 

Sounds accurate. Fighters with iron chins don't get knocked out the way Lewis did on two ocassions. But his chin wasn't made of glass as some like to think. His chin was rather solid apart from those KO losses to McCall and Rahman.

 

I am a huge Lewis fan but in all honesty his chin is average.

 

He didn't have an Iron chin. But his chin was nowhere near as bad as you make out. Watch the video.

 

Agreed. His chin was pretty damn strong. The Mercer and second Holyfield fight showed the proof. And the Vitali fight was another.