can every1 simply put down their personal choice for the top 5 best n worse chins ever! (include only boxers who competed at a decent level)
mine, in no particular order =
best: mayorga, hagler, gatti, Wayne McCullough, jake lamotta
worst: roy jones, herbie hide, ettiene, grant, wlad klitschko
every single knockdown naseem has had was a balance issue because of his style, not a flash knockdown. even when barrera was hammering his ass he was never dazed. he took some big shots from kelley as well and didnt show the slightest bit of loss of balance or hazyness.
actually, if you can put up an animated gif of naseem hamed dazed, ill donate 50 million to you right here and now.
jl castillo seems to honestly belong at #1, moreso than hamed i should say, but ive seen JL dazed. i havent seen hamed dazed.
Like you said naseem was off balance! so we never really seen him take one clean on the whiskers.
Wayne has got to have the best set of whiskers in my opinion. prince naseem smashed his facial bones and wayne kept fighting.
People...Tommy Hearns chin really only failed him when he fought at higher weights. His chin really wasn't that bad at 147/154. It took a very good overall puncher like Ray Leonard about 30 power punches through the last 2 rounds to severely hurt and stop Hearns.
I agree......Tyson had an excellent chin. He was extremely hard to hurt, & even harder to put down.
A guy with anything less than an excllent chin would have never taken the shots he did by Ruddock & Douglas & managed to stand.
He did, however, tend to get frustrated & discouraged when tagged.
His heart didn't match his chin.
naseem is a joke right? that guy has never had his chin tested! and he has been knocked down many times with flash knock downs.
every single knockdown naseem has had was a balance issue because of his style, not a flash knockdown. even when barrera was hammering his ass he was never dazed. he took some big shots from kelley as well and didnt show the slightest bit of loss of balance or hazyness.
actually, if you can put up an animated gif of naseem hamed dazed, ill donate 50 million to you right here and now.
jl castillo seems to honestly belong at #1, moreso than hamed i should say, but ive seen JL dazed. i havent seen hamed dazed.
my 3 all time best chins:
#1 naseem hamed
#2 wayne mccullough
#3 demarcus corely
i actually think corely's chin is a little better than waynes, but wayne has been hit much much more and has still never been ko, so i picked him for #2.
hamed was simply a god, he would get hit with huge shots but never when he was coming in, so it wasnt a full force punch. always up before the ref started counting being KD off balance
naseem is a joke right? that guy has never had his chin tested! and he has been knocked down many times with flash knock downs.
waynes chin has been tested time and time again and corely as well.
my 3 all time best chins:
#1 naseem hamed
#2 wayne mccullough
#3 demarcus corely
i actually think corely's chin is a little better than waynes, but wayne has been hit much much more and has still never been ko, so i picked him for #2.
hamed was simply a god, he would get hit with huge shots but never when he was coming in, so it wasnt a full force punch. always up before the ref started counting being KD off balance
vitali is worth mentioning, since he's never been kd
guys that come to my mind with good chins are foreman,hagler,tua,
morales,mayorga..
Whos the guy in your signiture? He reminds me of the black comedian...
Richard Pryor?
Why is Chuvalos name brought up only once is in this thread?
most people only know him for losing fights, not that he stood in with the best and took there stuff. He's just not a know fighter.
I'm not convinced that Wlad's Chin is all that bad. HE has been down against some very hard hitters. between Peter,Sanders,Brewster, and Purity they have KO'd 107 fighters. it's not like he is going down against a feather fisted Bryd. He went down against some powerful guys, and was able to get up with all of them
Mike Tyson could take a beating, and Roy Jones has the worst chin ever!
Being KO'd twice in over 50 fights by two top fighters in the Div classifies RJJ as having the worst chin ever???? You must didn't see that shot that Tarver landed? no one would have survived that. And johnson beat him around for 9 rounds before finishing him.
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