Who was closest to being 'unknockoutable'?

No worries Dop, sent ya summin on the quiet.

 

Thanks for that mate. Lovely right hand in the 3rd by Spinks too. :good

 

Mike McCallum

 

Timed to absolute perfection!

 

Tho i think Hearns might test him in this regard McCallum is certainly a great shout.

 

Mccall, Hagler, Lennox lewis (badly joking !)

 

What particularly durable light heavyweights did Spinks KO. I know he stopped some guys there but I was unaware of any exceptionally durable guys stopped by him.

 

Willie "The Bull" Taylor was known for having a granite chin at the time he faced off with Spinks, one that John Conteh infamously broke his right hand on in 1975. The Jinx practiced his power punching on Taylor for over seven rounds, to the point where his hands were hurting badly. Finally, the referee stepped in to stop it, just as Taylor was cranking up another wild roundhouse left. (That was Spink's warmup for Marvin Johnson.)

 

Mustafa Hamsho, Hagler put over fiftysomething stiches in his face & he kept coming, only the referee showed enough mercy to stop it. And noone else came close to stopping him. Very tough fighter.

 

Rocky Balboa. End of thread.

 

Are you forgetting about the first Clubber Lang scrape?

 

I know that unstoppable doesn't necessarily mean undroppable but McCallum's been down twice -against Tiozzo and then against Herol Graham, 4th round. That hurts his case. I can't mention him in the same page as Hagler.

 

:happy Rudy Koopmans .........our dutch pride.....

 

Jones didn't drop him? Well past it tho, admittedly.

 

I'm fairly sure it was RJJ that dropped McCallum (in the 10th I think) and not Herol Graham, who punched nowhere near hard enough to drop someone of McCallum's chin calibre.