Who is the most respected glass jaw fighter?

Lewis, Hearns and Wlad are the first ones that come to mind. Although not on at level, Felix Trinidad is another.

And let's be realistic too - no matter how the fanboys and deniers try to spin it, ALL of the fighters mentioned in this thread had problems with punch resistance, to one degree or another, and therefore can be deemed to have questionable whiskers.

See what the fanboys can't seem to accept is that MOST fighters have "glass jaws" of one degree or another, which is to say, they do not absolutely, positively remain vertical no matter what they are hit with.

 

Who's the most respected glass HEART fighter, zackman?

My vote is for cotto

 

Terry Norris

 

That's as good a choice as any. I know some would object, but Tyson could be seen as another. Let's face it, when the other guy stood up to him, he wilted.

 

I hear Patterson mentioned so constantly as having this horrible flaw of a jaw. Number one, Floyd Patterson suffered most of his knockdowns as a man whose natural size was no bigger than Andre Ward's while fighting at heavyweight and in nearly every match conceding weight even after building himself up to heavy with the frame of a middle-supermiddleweight fighter. He has one of the lowest recorded fighting weights of the lineal heavyweight champions I can find, having once come in at 163.5 pounds for one of his early matches. His highest weight is among the lowest for a HW champion also at 200.25 pounds and still in his very last fight was in the 180's. Going out in the 180's for any HW champ who went out in colour television time is quite something. As an amateur, men like Foreman and Frazier won the gold heavyweight medal. Ali and Neon won the gold light heavyweight medal. Patterson and Michael Spinks (light heavyweight and heavyweight champion) won their Olympic golds at middleweight. Also, nearly every one of the much talked about times he was KD'd, as he would point out, few mention how he kept getting up.

Now, the men who stopped him were Muhammad Ali twice (once he was suffering bad back trouble which completely ****s someone with his style), a man who put iron-jawed Bonavena out with one well-placed shot and is still the only man to stop Foreman, despite him fighting Briggs, Morrison, Holyfield and getting his face mashed to **** against Stewart and Moorer, all in his forties, Sonny Liston twice and Ingo once. Liston, the man who routinely knocked speed bags off the hinges and the stuffing out of his sparring partners' head gear and Ingo were both enormous punchers. All this and keeping in mind that he had an athletic, bursting forward with fast combinations style in his prime against bigger men and you have to wonder if getting knocked down a lot and stopped in the manners he was stopped in, by the men who stopped him, don't actually make his chin not so glasslike at all, when you have the ability to put into any realistic perspective his natural size and style. Because if you can't imagine any of our super six men not getting stopped by Liston, Ingo and Ali or KD'd by some fairly inferior heavyweights, maybe you should try a little harder.

 

Sure, you could put forth a well-argued position like that, throw a lot of facts and sound reasoning around, but maybe I don't know what words like, "nearly," and, "every," and "match," mean. Maybe I'm not so good with the math and can't quite figure out the difference between 189 and 213. You ever consider that?

No, of course not. Why? Cuz you a damn Pattriot. :verysad

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Let the 2012 posters debate this.

 

Seth Mitchell, according to HBO he is unbeatable.

 

His extreme weight draining was part of his big succes...
He wasn't really natural at welter.

 

i do hope you are joking here, he had a good chin

 

He got wobbled alot but more often than not it riled him up and he started throwing bombs back. The Eubank and Watson stoppages were on accumilation rather than knock outs. The Watson one in particular, he had punched himself out, believed too much in his power and just chucked bombs from the off. Watson was too smart for him.The Collins fights arent even worthy of discussion.

I know what you're saying, he was no Holyfield in the chin departement but those skinny legs made him look more fragile than he was IMO.

 

Roy Jones

Never got his glass chin exposed until he lost his prime
It was hard to hit him that time anyway so you'd never suspect that chin

 

Could you imagine how Cotto lasted 11 rds with Tony if Tony really wore plaster in that fight? Think :think

 

He was a hero regardless of his nationality i'm British and i rate him as the best HW of all time, if you think he has a glass chin then you need your eyes testing.