Mount Rushmore of HW chins

Lewis landed 161 power punches on Holyfield in fight 1 yet couldn't even stop him coming forward on the offensive.

Slower , older and fatter Lewis landed only 50 power punches and Vitali was hanging on for dear life.

Vitali reacted worse to uppercuts than a faded Holyfield and thats his claim for best chin ever?

Where the rest of the data?

 

I do not believe Foreman-Chuvalo should have been stopped, but Sandy Chuvalo was crying and Irving Ungerman was climbing up the stairs. However, the Canadian never turned away from Foreman as he did Frazier and had actually fired back half a dozen times. It wasn't like a foundering Lyle with Ali.


Chuvalo himself wrote that nobody was as tough as he was alleged to be, that like LaMotta, he'd move his head that fraction of an inch to take the steam off a shot.

The reason I do not rate Chuvalo is because upon careful review of the footage at the slowest 0.25 YouTube speed, Bonavena did deck him twice as he had Frazier, but Arthur Mercante blew the calls. Regardless, Ringo clearly staggered him. (Chuvalo gave it right back though.)


Muhammad Ali stood up to more head shots from Shavers than anybody else ever did (and it ruined him for life), so the GOAT is my top pick.

I do think Cobb belongs, as long as he wasn't coked up or taking a dive.

Louis dropped Uzcudun with what the Bomber and referee Arthur Donovan both said was the hardest punch of his career, even more so than his knockout punch on Braddock, and Louis said he couldn't believe it when Paulino got up to beat the count at eight. That was NOT the end of their match. Joe unloaded three more bombs to get Donovan to call the halt. Max Baer said he hit the Basque with the hardest punch of his career in Paulino's 20 round win. Schmeling beat the crap out of him in their first 15 rounder to make his name in NYC, but couldn't drop him in 39 rounds over three bouts. Godfrey and Spalla were others he took it from.

Jeffries may have been. He boxed in an era of five ounce gloves and no gumshields. This one may depend on how you feel about Tom Sharkey 2X, Ruhlin and Fitz 2X. Was Fitz simply too light? Well, Michael Spinks was just 170 only two bouts before Holmes Bob shattered the wrist of one opponent blocking a punch, and he knocked somebody else out with a forehead shot. John L. Sullivan called him "a fighting machine on stilts," but he was the Old Master's idol and they shared a mutual admiration society. (Fitz called Gans, "The marvel of the age.")

I'm not that familiar with McCall, but of course I know his reputation. Mercer has that famous story about how Morrison was hitting Ray so hard that he was farting in the ring.

Foreman? Depends on how you feel about the war with Lyle. But if Ron could drop him twice that abruptly, then George is definitely going to be on ***** Street and Deck Street if Earnie nails him, and first career Foreman was a wide open target.

Now for over a decade, I've been a huge champion for a name not on that list, the never floored Henry Clark, who stood up to Shavers 2X, Liston and Mercado, among others.

 

How is George Foreman here? He was almost stopped by (or ridiculously hurt by) Ron Lyle in the first round? His feat is taking punches from… Evander Holyfield with a 50 odd lbs weight advantage? Then what? Moorer and Morrison on the back foot? - I ain’t watched much Cobb but McCall is hard to say IMO his style like Ali allowed him to anticipate a lot neither guy really PRESSED in with urgency or opened up enough to get badly hurt, Ali had a good chin but I don’t think his was as alien as I once thought, both guys have good chins no doubt and so did Foreman it’s just they’re not what it says on the tin… Evander Holyfield was a guy who got into shoot outs with everyone and they were all full sized big heavies… he got clocked cold plenty of times because it’s just his way he was aggressive but his chin didn’t fail him without disease or age being the primary factor, to me considering the styles of all these guys, size and opponents it has to be Evander IMO.

 

Evander Holyfields was better tested than all of them while being smaller and more aggressive…. Long live “The Real Deal” boxings iron man.

 

I would not put Foreman in the same category as McCall but he took clean hits from Cooney. He had a great chin.

 

Eh - a shot Cooney, the best puncher he faced Ron Lyle almost killed him, gave him the fight of his life and dropped him with the first clean right ….round one… he also happens to be the only live body who could punch on his record… Ali ate shots from Lyle without 1/10th of the theatrics.