McCall, he sparred with Tyson for years and never got knocked out not even dropped and I heard he once ko'd Tyson.
Why not? Those two would have been my first choices. hard to knock out, and hard to hit presents an insurmountable combination. Another one that comes to mind is Sugar Ray Leonard.
My local college library may have The Boston Globe on microfilm. If anybody else on the boards is attending a college which has The Globe on microfiche, I believe that's the paper which published the story I read around the middle of Hagler's reign. (Other Boston area newpapers also likely reported this scan result.)
Because, all of them were knocked down in their primes, all of them have been hurt in their primes, and ready to go, and all of them are more suceptable to being knocked out than, lets say Hagler or Frazier. I was merely questioning them being his first choices.
Yep. Perhaps a better choice for 'unstoppable'. Another member of the unknockoutable brigade had to be Marcos Villasana.
I don't see how. One thing is sure and that is every fighter is human and thus open to some form of an injury.
I'm not talking solely about chin. I'm also talking heart, conditioning etc If we are including everything then I could say Wilfredo Benitez in his prime.
I already said this. Ali and Robinson were both hurt badly numerous times, and hurt mildly on many other occasions. The only time worth mentioning where Marvin Hagler was hurt was the Wigfall fight early in his career. You see, there are differences. I know you love Ali, but he wasn't the most durable fighter of all time. Neither was Robinson. Yes, they were extremely hard to knock out, but we're talking the elite of the elite here. You can't compare them to men like Billy Graham and Sixto Escobar.
An injury such as a severe cut can lead to partial blindness, which could lead to unseen shots and an open defence. Well, you are, because you were comparing Hagler and Eubank's chins and how Hagler didn't take as much punishment. Hagler didn't take as much punishment because he was better, and that's why he was harder to knock out. No - Benitez had the reflexes, he had the smarts, but he lacked stamina and durability. He could stave off the likes of Palomino and Cervantes, but if someone forced the fight and made him work - an Armstrong or Napoles - he'd be in a whole new world of trouble.