What Are Some All Time Great Showings Of Chin, By Weight Class?

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  1. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Some contenders that have always impressed me for a few weight classes. Video welcome.

    Featherweight. Marcos Villasanas bouts against Azumah Nelson & Hodkinson would quality but I think Garza was a bigger bomber than either and landed a lot before himself succumbing.
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    Heavyweight, first one that comes to mind for me is Lennox vs Mercer. Coincidentally both men have a few fights that would qualify here... Lennox against Mavrovic & Vitali, Mercer against Cooper was insane. The shots he absorbed when ancient against a young Wlad were crazy as well.
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    Off the top of my head.

    Heavyweight = Pinklon Thomas taking like 20+ unanswered punches from a prime Mike Tyson before finally going down. I can't remember ever seeing a Heavyweight take that many flush unanswered punches from a huge hitter and remain standing for that long it was quite a feat.

    Cruiserweight = I was always impressed with Chris Eubank moving up to Cruiserweight and taking bombs from a much bigger man in Carl Thompson without going down.

    Light Heavyweight = Matthew Saad Muhammad withstanding like 30 unanswered punches from Yaqui Lopez and comeback smiling in the 8th round of their 2nd fight.

    Super Middleweight = This one might surprise some people but i was impressed with Thomas Hearns taking a battering from Sugar Ray Leonard in round 5 & round 12 of their fight without going down. For a fighter that is known to have a suspect chin i thought this was a very good showing of durability from Hearns.

    Middleweight = Jake LaMotta vs Sugar Ray Robinson St Valentines Day Massacre the pounding LaMotta took at the end of the fight was inhuman and he remained standing.

    Welterweight = I Recently watched Carmen Basilio vs Tony DeMarco 2 and some of the shots Basilio took in the first 9 rounds would've dropped an elephant and somehow Basilio remained standing.

    Jr Welterweight = Micky Ward or Arturo Gatti 1st fight enough said.

    Featherweight = In Jin Chi had an iron chin and survived wars against Erik Morales, Michael Brodie, without going down.
     
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    H - chuvalo vs foreman/frazier (just completely one sided beatings)
    C - holyfield vs qawi (so many hard punches landed clean for qawi in the second half particularly)
    LH - saad muhammad vs johnson 1
    SM - froch vs pascal (pascal is a serious puncher but froch hardly seemed bothered when he would land)
    M - dewitt vs hearns (hearns landed more clean shots on him than anyone else he faced)
    SWW - margarito vs pacquiao (manny isn't a big puncher at this weight but he more than made up for it with volume in this one)
    WW - brown vs trice (trice was a massive puncher and despite being dropped early btown just went through his punches for 14 rounds)
    SLW - chavez vs mayweather 2
    LW - wolgast vs nelson (they both took so much punishment in this fight)
    SFW - limon vs navarrete (so many clean punches to limon's chin)
    FW - gomez vs laporte (completely one sided beating that somehow went all 12, man is laporte tough)
    SBW - duarte vs zaragoza (zaragoza isn't a big puncher but he landed at will for 10 rounds before this fight was stopped, really hard to watch)
    BW - castillo vs olivares 1 (an ansolute was against a missive puncher in olivares ans castillo was never really in that much trouble)
    SFly - castro vs onizuka (onizuka was punching in between castro's punches landing clean time and time again and castro never took a backwards step)
    Fly - chertchai vs gamez (both displayed incredible chins absorbing many clean punches for the entire duration of the fight)
    LFly - can't think of one
    Min - alvarez vs lopez 2 (lopez landed many clean shots on alvarez but he never seemed hurt)
     
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