Who had a better chin, Calzaghe or Froch?

Both have excellent chins. Of course seeing as this place is pretty much a Calzaghe hate site these days, most will pick Froch. I'm actually tying to do a highlight compilation video on Calzaghe's chin at the moment and I must say looking back it's remarkable how he was able to walk through so many huge, full-blooded flush bombs from proven punchers like Eubank, Reid, Kessler, Bika, Brewer, Jones etc. all of whom caught him with thunderous shots that would've KO'd a lot of fighters let alone dropped them. Even some of his lesser quality opponents but still big hitters caught him with huge shots that he brushed off like they were nothing. He also fought some big punchers in the amateurs and was never off his feet too.

And if you watch the Eubank and Hopkins fights he gets caught with some really vicious, hard headbutts (cheating **** Hopkins), and accidental head clashes against Eubank (the top of Eubank's dome crashes into his face hard on numerous occasions in that fight) and he just brushes it off and ignores it and jumps right back into the fray like nothing happened. He doesn't even complain to the ref.

Here take a look. Watch how many flush bombs Joe walks into and shrugs off like they were nothing too.

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In fact, the only fights where he did complain to the ref about headbutts were the Salem and Bika fights, both of whom, especially the former, stuck the nut in hard and repeatedly throughout. Actually that's why Salem was able to drop him. He'd butted and fouled Joe numerous times in the first four rounds and Joe was absolutely lived with him (think he even shouted at the ref if memory serves me well) and ended up getting dropped by a big right hand when he rushed in trying to exact revenge. Salem was one of the dirtiest fighters I've seen and he actually killed one of his opponents and many attribute that to the numerous vicious headbutts he hit him with throughout the fight. In one of his other fights he even broke the ref's nose with one of his trademark butts. lol.

Make no mistake about it Joe was a very durable and tough man indeed and anyone who tries to argue to the contrary either has an agenda or is a clueless ****witt.

His chin in the Reid fight was absolutely insane (a fight by the way that occurred at a time in his career where he was going through an absolutely terrible phase of injuries, which is something that many conveniently forget to mention). They were so bad he wasn't even able to spar/spar properly for over a year). Joe suffered a bad injury to his left hand (his power hand) in the 4th or 5th round too and it had a drastic reduction on the number of power shots he was able to throw with it (go watch the Eubank fight and compare how many booming left hands he threw in that to the scant amount he threw against Reid if you don't believe me) and subsequently he found it very difficult to keep Reid off of him and he ended up getting caught repeatedly by thunderous right hands by Reid, some of which would've unquestionably sparked anyone who wasn't the possessor of a granite jaw.

Here's a selection of some of them (I haven't edited this yet by the way and some of them are the same bits of footage).

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People hold the Knockdowns he suffered against Jones and Hopkins against him but if you analyze both of them it's plain to see that the Hopkins' one was just a timing shot delivered from a heavier opponent (Hopkins refused to step on the scales for the pre-fight weigh in), who'd obviously been working on that move over and over again in the gym, that made his legs dip followed by an ever so unintentional shove by Hopkins to make sure he went over. He wasn't hurt by it, just as he hadn't been by the Salem KD. And despite what the legions of haters will try and have you believe, the Jones one wasn't even actually a legitimate KD. It was a close-line forearm to the face, bone against bone, and no part of the hand actually connected with his face.

For those of you who dispute that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEVZWzCqd0w&feature=youtu.be

The Mitchell KD was obviously definitely legitimate though and Joe was badly hurt by that. Mitchell looked like a ****ing cruiserweight compared to Joe and it was a huge shot that caught him as he was in the middle of loading up on his own shot. Joe's powers of recovery were immense though and I think that even his most sternest critics would admit that the way he responded to being dropped for the first time in his life was pretty special.