Who's the toughest emeffer/sob you've ever seen???

I saw Lennie McLean take on 5 ( yes 5 ) guys in a dingy little club off the City Road in Islington circa 1974, what were they thinking !!!! keep well.

 

Marvin Hagler.

 

Bobby Chacon
Evander Holyfield
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
Carl Thompson

 

Probably somebody like Wach. The amount of bombs he ate from Wlad in their fight was just stupid.

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In his prime, Roberto Duran at 135 lbs.

 

Prime Tyson.

 

Tex Cobb.
Jake Lomatta
Matthew Saad Muhammad.
Rocky Marciano

 

Duran when I was very young he just reminded me of the tasmainian devil cartoon crossed with captain caveman.
Hagler was a bad man.
Early Iron Mike and then Hollyfield.

 

Without a doubt RANDALL TEX COBB !!!

 

Lots of ways to define tough. We assume a Cobb or Chuvalo were tougher than others because they could take so much punishment (and they probably were tough guys), when they probably wouldn’t look so tough if they had glass jaws.

I’ll relate two tough-guy tales:

Derrik Holmes challenged Wilfredo Gomez at 122 with a 14-0-1 record. He went down eight times before the fight was finally stopped in the fifth round. A couple of them at least it didn’t even look like he got hit.

What’s so tough about that?

Soon after The Ring ran a story on it that included images of his X-ray. His jaw was broken — like literally the jawbone one side of it was broken clean through into two pieces — and the fracture went right through a tooth so that one half of the tooth was with one half of the jaw and the other half with the other half of the jaw. So he literally had a tooth, all the way down to the roots, broken in half.

I can’t imagine the depth of pain that must have caused. Yet he kept getting up and trying as long and as best he could. I’d reckon less than 1% of all fighters with the same happening to them would have gone as long as he did.

And then there was the guy in our gym, who was basically a club fighter middleweight (I think he retired 10-3 but the last fight was a one-off heavyweight fight after he had retired because someone offered enough money) — I won’t mention names so as not to risk doxxing myself — and we had some guys in town to spar one night from all over the state. One of them was like 6-0 but not much special about him. A few accomplished amateurs. And Byron Mitchell, an enormous puncher.

So I can’t recall if I had called and left a message or he was just driving home from his construction job and saw the lights on, but our guy walks in. He has zero equipment and nothing kept at the gym. He wants to go a few with Byron and takes his shoes and socks off as well as his shirt, no mouthpiece, wearing his work pants … and grabs a cup and I think a headgear. Borrows some cloth hand wraps and puts on the gloves and he went to war with Mitchell for I think four rounds without shoes or a mouthpiece. Got his mouth busted up pretty bad but nothing major — he didn’t come close to getting the better of it but he didn’t back away from any exchange and kept coming as hard as he could.

Mitchell, who didn’t know him, came to his corner after and said, ‘You are one tough son of a *****. Thanks for the work.’

EDIT: I’ve run into our guy a few times over the years (I managed and trained him) and we tell old tales and talk about old times, but I always tell him ‘you’re the toughest guy I’ve ever met.’

 

Tex A glass jaw ????? ROFLMAO Yu could hit him with a 2x4 he'd still get ya

 

Paz looked like the crazy strong crackhead you NEVER mess with lol