20 best chins p4p ever

[BigJuicyHog]

I generally think of the guys who have the best chins as the guys who are willing to take two to give one. Someone like McCall, Cobb, and David Tua. Wayne McCullough has taken entirely too much punishement due to his sturdy chin. Bernard Hopkins also seems to have a very good chin although alot of this could also be due to his defensive abilities.

[dagosd2000]

I know all of us are trying to come up with good names and maybe some fighters that are overlooked,but how abou Ali? When he came out of retirement he took some tremendous shots and held up. Frazier,Shavers,and Liston couldn't stop him. And what does he do,but KO Foreman who at the time was wipng out everyone. Why he didn't fall against Holmes can only substantiate his tremendous threshold of pain. He certainly had guts.

[Goodnight, Irene]

Some fighters have one overriding ability, & as a result other facets of their game are overlooked. Mike Tyson had so much knockout power, people continually underestimated his handspeed, which was absolutely first-class during his championship reign. To the reverse of that, people were so awed by Roy Jones Jr's speed & raw athleticism, they forgot he could punch like a demon, even when he was flattening guys, sometimes with single shots.

& for Ali, during the first leg of his career, people fawned all over his speed. Later, when he slowed, they talked about his ring intelligence, & generalship. Not too many mention how flat-out tough the guy was. Foreman didn't land too many clean shots (especially on the chin) but Ali took each punch that did find the target, & of course the connect percentage of Frazier & Norton was much higher, but Ali toughed it out. I think he does belong a notch below Tua & Chuvalo etc. because those guys just stood there & absorbed it endlessly, whereas Ali had many ways to escape punishment or otherwise survive when hurt.

But I will say while he may not have been as durable during his prime as he was in his comeback, Ali in the 70's deserves a lot more credit for how durable he was.

So whaddya got to say about these glowing appraisals from my self & dagosd, I Feel Fine? ;)