Who are the greatest chinny fighters ever?

Maybe Benitez although its hard to say whether his chin was bad or the times he got dropped were a result of his poor training habits. His later career was typified by his early onset brain damage so I don't really hold that against him to much.

 

I don't think I'd put Jones, Jr on there. By the time he was KD'd he was in his mid-30's and writing checks his reflexes could no longer cash. He just never made the adjustments that were necessary with age... perhaps because he never mastered some of the fundamentals. I mean the guy was still trying to land leaping lead left hooks in his mid-40's.

Put Terry Norris on that list, tho.

 

Norris?

 

Tiger Flowers and Tommy Loughran maybe.

 

Floyd Patterson, Roger Mayweather, Tony Mundine and Kuniaki Shibata. One of the reasons I liked these fighters was because they had a fault and found their way around it with varying levels of success.

 

Benns chin could be interesting with his power that made him fantastic to watch kill or be killed .

 

Tommy Hearns

 

Lennox Lewis without a doubt. Then Floyd Patterson.

 

Richard Hall could crack. Merqui Sosa could certainly hit. Ruiz hit hard enough especially on a middleweight chin. Going way back Jorge Vaca could bang but I don't think he got a punch in.

My greater point is that chin can be a factor of style... Roy based his style around those reflexes and speed he possessed. Any slower fighter (basically all other fighters) would look sloppy, ****y and knocked out. Well, Roy got slower and had no Plan B for his career and became that guy. But it took until he was 35 years to happen.

 

Patterson for sure, if you consider him an ATG.
I don't, but some people do.
He definitely had a glass jaw.

 

Hearns immediately springs to mind. Roger Mayweather would have done more if he had a chin. He was like Hearns Light. Terry Norris is another one.

 

Tiger Flowers