Who Had The Best Chin Willard Or Carnera

first of all, most heavyweights can punch, some are more effective punchers and even some light punchers are accurately dangerous. There is a class of elite punchers, and many other tiers. Usually you can tell if a heavyweight has elite power or skill at hurting and finishing an opponent by results in the pro ring. Ron Lyle and Big Cat were good punchers but failed to KO men that were being KO'd at the time thus IMO overrated as effective punchers IMO and below elite in results. In that case we were talking of the elite

comparing the chins of Willard and Primo I said Uzcudun was a pretty good puncher because he did KO Harry Wills, he also KO'd Les Kennedy (who a year earlier w10 over puncher Max Baer) Out of 50 wins Uzcudun stopped 34 men but I would still not put him in the upper bracket of heavyweight punchers and I would list him below Lyle, the point here is that Willard had only 22 wins and out of his 5 losses was Ko'd 3X and he failed against the elite. Primo was 77-6 before he was stopped for the 1st time by an elite puncher (Baer) and 81-7 (Louis

but I stated Primo failed against the elite punchers - Baer and Louis.


Willard failed when he was matched with what I call an elite puncher (Dempsey)

You stated that Willard had a proven chin but what elite punchers did he prove it against.


I think both men could be hit despite being Giants . Primo's chin may be underrated Willard may be overrated out of 27 fights he was KO'd 3 X Primo had 102 fights and was KO'd 5 X but his 1st KO loss came after 83 fights

I dont see a big difference in jaw strength here and that's my opinion.

 

do you see Willard surviving Joe Louis and Max Baer and how long would he last

 

the relevancy is that Willard failed against the elite punchers he faced and would have failed against Baer and Louis but the only one he faced was Dempsey. Willard was KO'd 3X in 27 fights, sorry if I dont see the steel chin that you are proclaiming.:hi:

 

Willard

 

You can't say as Willard never faced the same type of punchers Carnera did.