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My top 5.

1. Wayne McCullough ( I think he is Ring magazines number 1 chin in boxing)
2. Erik Morales (Incredible chin)
3. Oliver McCall (I think he has one of the best heavyweight chins of all time)
4. Ricardo Mayorga (Trinidad is a huge puncher and Mayorga let him have 2 free hooks - Trinidads signature punch!)
5. Bernard Hopkins (I think he deserves a mention)

Henry Wharton had a great chin!

Marion Wilson

wladmir klitschko

Holyfield.

Iron Chins - Tua, Tyson, Vitali?

Lower Weights - Morales, Chi, Mosley, Delahoya, Hopkins,

De La Hoya? Oscar's been dropped a few times. He fought very defensively when Quartey got him till the last round when he had to fight or lose. He didn't try to exchange with Trinidad at all and done the same in Mosley 2. Not the actions of a man with confidence in his chin. I think his chin he decent but no-where near the best around.

Steve Collins deserves a mention.

Morales for sure.... Hopkins got dropped a few times in his first title fight which is pretty hard to believe.....
Wayne Mc, James Toney, Winky Wright, Harry Simon

Interestingly, guys like De La Hoya and Pac-Man only got dropped when they were at the lower weights..... was that due to too much cutting?????

Lefthookhappy19 wrote:De La Hoya? Oscar's been dropped a few times. He fought very defensively when Quartey got him till the last round when he had to fight or lose. He didn't try to exchange with Trinidad at all and done the same in Mosley 2. Not the actions of a man with confidence in his chin. I think his chin he decent but no-where near the best around.

Vargas landed some huge punches on DeLaHoya and he took them well.

Marvin Hagler. Sugar Ray Leonard. JC Chavez. James Toney.

Wayne McCulloch is something else though, the guy has been in with some of the biggest hitters in the sport and has barely blinked.

knockout wrote:Morales for sure.... Hopkins got dropped a few times in his first title fight which is pretty hard to believe.....
Wayne Mc, James Toney, Winky Wright, Harry Simon

I think Hopkins first title fight was at altitude which seemed to have an effect.

Freiheit wrote:Marion Wilson

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Wilson have only been KOed once in 55 fights and that was on cuts. He went the distance with:
Botha
Biggs
Jeremy Williams
Golota (twice)
Bean
Mercer
Kirk Johnson
Briggs
Izon (twice)
Orlin Norris
Ike Ibeabuchi
Wolfgramm
Jefferson
Maskaev
Donald
Rahman
Saleem
Tony Thompson
Samuel Peter
McCall

Having a great chin is an over rated quality

Don't get me wrong, good fighters need to be able to take a shot, but being able to soak up excessive amounts of punishment can often be a bad thing.

Look at Ali. capable of taking huge shots over an extended period and now.......

I somehow think some of the extended beatings that have been necessary to put Tyson on the floor ( saw the Douglas fight the other day and bugger he took some leather ) will come back to haunt him and I truly worry about Wayne McUlloch's health in future.

Of the recent fighters, the most "impressive" performances have been by Chi who seems to be made of granite, but I am still not sure it is a good thing

Slapsie

Lefthookhappy19 wrote:De La Hoya? Oscar's been dropped a few times. He fought very defensively when Quartey got him till the last round when he had to fight or lose. He didn't try to exchange with Trinidad at all and done the same in Mosley 2. Not the actions of a man with confidence in his chin. I think his chin he decent but no-where near the best around.

An interesting thing about those two Mosley fights is that in the first one (when they were at equal weights - forget the stuff about Shane moving up) Shane was exploding right hand bombs off his chin from the first five seconds of round one, frequently through the rounds until the last. DLH kept marching forward (fighting one-dimensionally, looking for the KO), but it was only in the twelfth he even looked slightly rocked.

Then in the rematch Mosely lands a cracker of a left hook in the opening round and DLH dips, then fights mostly on the back foot for the rest of the fight. In other words, Mosley seemed to have more power in the rematch - DLH felt it and changed strategy. I'd guess it was a combination of Mosley's steroid abuse and DLH fighting above his natural* weight that lessened his chin in that fight.

In the early fights the Italian, Campagnella(sp?), was the only one who made his eyes roll. Very reminiscent of the Alex Arthur - Gomez fight this one. In the way that DLH came out more interested in the crowd and almost got done in the opening minute with a left hook. The rest of the early knockdowns looked flash to me.

*154lb would probably be his natural weight if it was same day weigh-ins, but I think he could have made welter if he really wanted for most of his spell at 154lb, maybe even now...

Max Molyneux wrote:Holyfield.

Not any more.....

I would have said McCullough, although he does box at the lower weights were there are fewer big punchers.

Aaron Pryor's chin was inhuman. Also, Vargas never landed flush against Oscar. Mostly on the gloves.

i think one of the advantages of moving up in weight is that you are generally a tad quicker than your opponent so they dont get to land shots quite as flush

i think oscar de la hoya has a gud chin so does chris eubanks chin was really solid aswell and u gottta put james toney up threre asewell hes bin through so many weights and he can still take the punches so hes up there 4 all time chin with oliver mcall

kid gavilan had a strong chin he was knocked down twice in 143 fights
Carmen basilio
Jake lammotta
Randal tex cob
Julio Caesar chaves
Muhammad ali
but the best chin is belongs to bobo Olson
joking joe grim has the best chin in over 400 fights some coming against Dempsey and Johnson he was never knocked out or down

It's not that banker Amir Khan anyway

Is the op Lirva still about? I remember him changing his name and denying he was him for months, then screenshotting a bet to prove us all wrong and his betting account was in the name Lirva....

Lefthookhappy19 wrote:Aaron Pryor's chin was inhuman. Also, Vargas never landed flush against Oscar. Mostly on the gloves.

Pryor was tough as old boots

I think Oliver McCall is actually impossible to KO