Rank the Best Chins...Ever.

Give at least your top 5, if you like 10, greatest set of whiskers of all time.

Citeria: who could stand up to the hardest & best punches...And remain upright.

First amongst equals is who can maintain verticality HOWEVER it is done. Natural or built up resilience, minimizing blows defensively & rolling with punches...

But also strongly consider who, if somehow we could everybody struck the same amount of times with the same force, could take the most punishment.

It would be very hard to choose anyone under the modern HW limit.
Because size helps absorb blows, but also they are being conditioned & tested by the hardest punchers.

So weight who they fought, how often, what stage of the careers of their opponents & themselves.

I think folks with A levels chins like Ali could not qualify.
Even if his chin did improve to take big bombers...I am talking the most Freakish specimens here.

Chuvalo is an obvious contender. Though allegedly one slip should have been ruled a knockdown, & would he have remained upright if Foreman could continie?

Tua & Mercer only wavered when washed up.
Thus I think they clearly edge the likes of Max Baer & Galento, both down & out from Louis.

Were there any way old school guys who deserve to be on the list?
If a Sullivan did, it is very hard to know.

it is hard to beat Olver McCall. Or rather you could beat him All Day, but who could put him down?

It seems to me a naturally low center of gravity helps.
Besides obvious matters of technique, form & balance, & sheer will power.

Factor in effect of body attecks too.

What is your rating of the most Absurdly Ironclad bombproof men?

And why?

 

Thos are good points about folks who just tried to protect themselves.
Since part of the question involves assessing what could be withstood with absorbing the same intensity & amount of blows in a theoretical sense, it is important.

But many folks did not pay attention to what I asked, As LouisA astutely pointed out.

Unless somebody here really feels any middlewight or lighter could handle shots as well, let alone better, than the best HWs...


But i doubt anyone here is that naive.

So please provide different answers if you did not consider the question in the clearly intended, absolute sense.

Now the vast majority of great fighters have a good-great chin.
But some like Marciano were never tested by a huge banger.
We know someone like him & Foreman had a very good chin, but there is no evidence it is absolutely Top Shelf...Unless you isolate it to, say, comeback Foreman.

I can see nobody with quite the same whiskers at The Atomic Bull.

Never down in 72 Professional fights until he was 49.

Combat with some big sluggers & excellent contenders, such asBruno, Holmes, Maskeav, Tucker, Ferguson, Seldon, Douglas...

And prime Lewis could not dent him even in the 2 rounds he seemed to refuse to defend himself.

Never heard about him dropped in sparring, valued by folks like Tyson due to his chin.

Who can match him really?

 

Trail you are very new, welcome.

but, but, but....Did you READ the original thread, OR my reminder to those who did not pay any attention to what the thread question was ABOUT?

34 fights only as a pro. OK, possibly a man proved himself against fantastic bruisers by never being knocked down.

But as I keep saying, the question is about who has the best chin against ALL potential comers. At any weight.
I have no idea why your man is even the best P4P, though his chin was excellent indeed...

For a BANTAMWEIGHT.

You cannot believe he could literally stand up to much heaver weight classes that hit much harder, let alone HWs, right?

The only (highly unlikely still) way I could imagine a Bantamweight being a contender is if he was buil like a HW but like well under 5' with freakishly long arms for his body like a 6' wingspan....The target would be very small & everybody punching down...

Nah, short of genetic engineering, too unlikely.