Who was closest to being 'unknockoutable'?

McCallum took a count from Graham from the ref, but it was pretty clear he had slip on some water in the corner after being knocked off balane by the punch.

Arguably a legit knockdown but not hurt in any way.

 

One of my favorite fighters. Man was ****in' unbelievable.

Ate one of the divisions hardest punchers shots (Garza) like they were nothing. It looked like one of Calzaghe's latter career slapping fits against Villasana.

Fenech also broke both his hands on Marcos' grante head.

 

your full of **** young fellow.

 

James Toney, Bernard Hopkins, and Pernell Whitaker. Outstanding defense with an outstanding chin, it's the definition of unknockoutable, and all 3 fit that definition.

 

Whitaker tasted the canvas in less flattering circumstances than Hopkin's and Toney though, correct?

 

It's JAMES TONEY, closely followed by BERNARD HOPKINS.

See the 1st Sam Peter fight for evidence. Toney cannot be stopped, despite the fact he was a fat middleweight fighting a fully-blown heavyweight with true KO power.

 

Think about it, there have been only a stellar handfull of great fighters who have never been knocked out. Maybe this can be the fodder of another thread.

 

The quality referred to as "unknockoutable" (sorry) has to be from a combination of having a great chin AND a great, effective defense.

 

To amend my previous post, lets add to that an effective OFFENSE as well. That would bring Rocky Marciano to mind. Being stopped, even by a tko, with no knockdown suffered, should disqualify from consideration a guy with just a great chin.

 

Chuvalo was never beaten like that. He was swinging back until the ref stopped it.

 

Unfortuanately Ali.

Many of the "iron chinned" ones end up not too well off.

 

Lamotta was a tough nut to crack

 

One guy who without question can match Hagler in this discussion is Wayne McCullough. I have never seen him hurt or wobbled. He was never floored in his entire career. And he fought one of the hardest punchers in featherweight history, Naseem Hamed, when McCullough himself was never a natural at the weight himself. Even years later he wasn't a featherweight. McCullough also took Morales' bombs no problem at super-bantamweight. The division where Morales power was at it's most devastating.

Nobody in boxing history has had a better chin than McCullough. Other fighters maybe fought more often against more punchers. But when it comes to taking punchers others can only equal McCullough not surpass him.

 

And another one on McCullough. He looked like a dwarf against Scott Harrison who was physically much stronger than him. Harrison bounced combination after combination off McCullough's head throughout their fight and as usual he went nowhere.

Hagler faced opponents coming up in weight or fighters on par with him physically. McCullough done the opposite. He went up in weight against fighters who were physically stronger than himself and were feared punchers against other naturals at the weight or even the weight above.

McCullough was a natural bantamweight.

 

Marciano, Ali, Lamotta.