Sugar Ray Leonard's chin; good or bad?

Syntax Error · Post by **Syntax Error** » 30 Oct 2005, 06:50

Fight fans, how do you rate Sugar Ray's chin?

Obviously, when you are rating a great fighters chin, you have to look at their overall career.

SRL is a strange one for me, because as a Welterweight, he had a awesome chin. I can only remember Duran wobbling him briefly in the first fight & that's it. He took some mind numbing punches from Hearns & never looked like buckling, yet later in his career, he tasted the canvass numerous times. To his credit, he always got up & fought back, with the Camacho fight being the exception, when he was nearly 41 & should not have been anywhere near a boxing ring as a pro fighter.

sockdolager · Post by **sockdolager** » 30 Oct 2005, 07:59

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Gatti has a > KO % plus more sensational KO's over more quality opponents... plus, SRL had a glass chin (was KO'd by Camacho, not known for heavy hands) and Hearns couldn't put him away, what makes u think he could hurt Gatti?

sockdollanger-
according to our friend dangerousjohnny, SRL had a glass chin. Im gonna go ahed and say SRL had a fine chin, so fine most people never touched it! In all seriousness, SRLs chin was Good, not great, but like I said noone hit it really until he was 40+

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 30 Oct 2005, 08:02

Leonard have a good chin. Sure he got dropped a few times but that was later in his career when he was facing naturally bigger men.

sockdolager · Post by **sockdolager** » 30 Oct 2005, 08:08

KOJOE90 wrote:Leonard have a good chin. Sure he got dropped a few times but that was later in his career when he was facing naturally bigger men.

walshb · Post by **walshb** » 30 Oct 2005, 12:51

Leonard had a great chin from what I remember. Hearns caught Ray in 81 with some great shots and couldn't put him away, so what if he tasted the canvas later in his career. the fact that he got up and fought on is testament to his great chin, Ali was dropped also, and we all know he had a granite chin...it's the ability to recover that determines a fighters chin, not whether or not he was knocked down

zuru · Post by **zuru** » 30 Oct 2005, 15:51

As much as I grew to dislike Leonard later in his career due to his "prima donna" atitude,I think he had a very good chin.I think the knockdown against K.Howard in his 1st comeback was a fluke,because he wasn't prepared for Howard to offer much resistance.And like others said,he took the best that Hearns & Duran offered.And at that stage in their careers,Hearns was muderous,and Duran,while his punch may have been diminished for the jump in weight,was still a dangerous,far above average puncher.Leonard had an excellent chin.He may have been dropped & stopped late in his career,but in his prime,his chin was TOP NOTCH,
zuru

Nile4000 · Post by **Nile4000** » 31 Oct 2005, 17:09

Ray, at his zenith, had a great chin.After the comebacks, the grade drops, but the man could take a punch.