Which Brit had the best chin?

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The Times

June 14, 2013

'Former world super-middleweight boxing champion Steve Collins says he's incredibly proud or his English roots and that English people should never feel ashamed of being patriotic or embracing their Englishness.

Collins, who turns 49 in July, said I : "I send my best wishes to everyone celebrating St George's Day today.

"I think it's great that in recent years it has become more and more popular to mark St George's Day.

"I'm very proud to be English and I think it is important that people in England can celebrate St George's Day, just as other nations of the United Kingdom celebrate their patron saint's days.

''We, the English-speaking peoples, invented freedom. We gave the world the glorious concept that the law was something bigger than the wishes of the king or the strongest man in the tribe. We taught other nations that the state could be the servant of the citizen, rather than the other way around.

''So why do we now shy away from the uniqueness of our achievement? It’s extraordinary that we don’t want to pass on to our children the fact that they are heirs to a sublime tradition.''

 

Eubank and McCullough deserve the top two spots, not sure which of them should rank numero uno though. Eubank's display of chin in the Thompson fights, where he was facing a much naturally bigger man who was routinely sparking or blasting out natural CWs and boiled down HWs in highlight reel fashion, was incredible. That said, as far as I'm aware McCullough was never off his feet in his entire career and he seemed almost impervious to punishment, walking through the bombs of hellacious bangers like Morales and Naz like they were pity pats. There's not much in it between the other three, IMO.