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why does nobody ever mention ray mercer???

marvin hagler had a granite jaw :!:

Vitali Klitschko getting overrated again

Great chins.....

Hagler
Monzon
McCall
Holyfield
Mosley
Hopkins
McCullough
Morales
Barrera
Pacquiao
De La Hoya
Margarito
Duran
Leonard
Mercer
Holmes
Ali
Foreman

george chuvalo.

ezzard charles :!: the guy wasnt even a big l.heavy going 15rds with muderous puncher's at heavy

james toney.

mike mcallum.

oscar de la hoya.

JMM is strong, but not sure I would have up there in the top 3/4 strongest chins P4P. He's been hit and hurt and floored a few times.

stujones wrote:JMM is strong, but not sure I would have up there in the top 3/4 strongest chins P4P. He's been hit and hurt and floored a few times.

Yeah I know what you're saying. Is having a granite chin the same as having amazing recouperative powers? IMO they're two different things. Holmes's chin was good, but not great imo, but his powers of recouperation were amazing. I put Marquez in that category. Whereas Mcall just has a concrete chin. If he got knocked down maybe he'd stay down and not be able to shake it off. we'll probably never know on that one!

hurlock wrote:why does nobody ever mention ray mercer???

marvin hagler had a granite jaw :!:

I mentioned both. Why does nobody ever read?

Oscar really was a tough S.O.B, even horrifically weight drained and past his prime, Pacman never came close to flooring him. Oscar said that Manny never really hurt him, but he just had nothing left to fight back. That's truly staggering, when you see what Mannys punches do to healthy fighters in their prime.

Oscar does have a head like a block of granite, it's fekking masive in relation to his body.

Deserter wrote:

Asterix wrote:Librado Andrade has a very good chin.

Shouldn't that read 'had' based on the Bute rematch?

It depends if his chin is in his stomach. :??

Datsue wrote:

hurlock wrote:why does nobody ever mention ray mercer???

marvin hagler had a granite jaw :!:

I mentioned both. Why does nobody ever read?

apologies i must of not seen it & still cant mercer that is

hurlock wrote: apologies i must of not seen it & still cant mercer that is

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Datsue wrote: So too (in his day) was Ray Mercer, a true Monzon/Hagler level human shock absorber, but in Ray's case bad living & too many wars beat it out of him.

I am often horrified that people on the Internet don't follow every convoluted Byzantine piece of bollocks I come out with the requisite close reading & attention to detail that such finely-hewn prose surely merits...

what is your take on one azumah nelson then squire?

Great fighter.

Amir Khan.

Datsue wrote:

IRLangmaid25 wrote:I agree with Sugar Shane Mosley has one of the best chins as he has only ever been knocked down once in his career, and all his losses have been on points. Arthur Abraham deserves an honourable mention as well as Edison Miranda brok his it saw Abraham lose over a pint of blood but still won and needed titanium screws put in if my memory serves me correctly. Also what about Miguel Cotto as well?

Forrest did it twice.

MAC = distinctly bloody average. Anyone whose legs go like that vs. Demarcus Corley, Ricardo Torres, Zab Judah & Margarito (three being solid punchers, one a sneaky non-puncher), & who would've been out vs. the ones he came back to beat if he wasn't twice the size of three of them, does not deserve any mention whatsoever in this type of list.

Thanks for clearing up SSM's chin for me, and Cotto I was never quite sure about so I thought I would mention him and see what the response was. I am tempted to mention Arturo Gatti as he could a sickening amount of punishment and still fire back. As for Oscar De La Hoya in his fight v Manny Pacquiao, No matter how drained and shot De La Hoya he was getting dismantled and had he not been pulled out in the 8th round he would have been stopped on his feet as he had nothing to keep the Pacman off him

Asterix wrote:

Deserter wrote:

Asterix wrote:Librado Andrade has a very good chin.

Shouldn't that read 'had' based on the Bute rematch?

It depends if his chin is in his stomach. :??

The finisher was a body shot but he was already in trouble after Bute dropped him clean with a left hook to the chin earlier in the round:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WwxGCXt ... re=related

Second only to Hagler, I would have said that when it comes to championship fighters, Larry Holms has to be in with a great shout.

Modern day/current quality beards go to Saiko Bika, Mosely, Karo Murat, Afolabi and Clottey.

The ability to take a pin-point chin checker and just being an all round tough bastard seem to be blurring into one on the this thread.

It would seem the fighters who have both are the truly greats.

Odlanier Solis took a Haye rocket in their amateur fight flush on chin and stayed upright to win. If he has toughness, he could be special at heavy if he stays fit, not fat.

James Toney
Wayne McCullough

Andypittcov wrote:Paulie mallinagi

Very good name. He has taken some horrific hits but has stood strong!!! You don't really need to be considered a world beater to be considered for the boxrec.com best chin.

Look at the bangers Mike Mccallum took on. Incredible boxer with an A+ chin

chinny wrote:Look at the bangers Mike Mccallum took on. Incredible boxer with an A+ chin

Yep he also had a great chin. Daniel Zaragoza is another one who took a hell of a shot

Good shouts...

In recent times you have to point to Hopkins, Mosley, Briggs, Toney, Holyfield, McCullough, Froch, Klit Sr, Margarito, Woods.....some iron jaws.

From times past I think Aaron Pryor gets overlooked - he had a phenomenal chin - Chavez, Nelson, Eubank, Monzon, La Motta etc etc..

still cant believe Kotelnik isn't on everybodys lists!! been in with known punchers and never looked in trouble.

Recently i've been impressed with Jean Pascals chin.

Evander Holyfield has got an amazing chin.

Eubank

Doug dewitt