Going back 50 years in boxing,name some fighters that you thought were almost impossible to knock out. Weather it was because they took a great shot,or because they were such great defensive fighters that it was difficult to catch them with big shots.
Id go with
Ali
Marvin Hagler
Ray Robinson
Bernard Hopkins
James Toney
Floyd Mayweather jr
Pernell Whitaker
Just to name a few
i saw McCullough take a beating against someone i think it was Scott Harrison i could be wrong ,he took some viscious punches & he took what Hamed could dishout aswell
Mike McCallum, took Julian Jacksons best shot and simply steamed rolled him in two rounds. McCallum could be hurt, but he regrouped incredible fast and couls take one hell of a punch.
Anyone remember a fella named Larry LaCoursiere who ran in each round away from Julio Cesar Chavez in the undercard of Lewis-McCall?
He was called "Lightning"!
That guy will be tough to KO. By anyone!
Just playing...
Actually, LaCoursierre was KD'd 3 times in the first round by Winky Wright and was sent to dreamland by Kostya Tzsyu also in the first round.
It's just that, the image of Chavez chasing LaCoursierre for all of 10 rounds was what came to me upon reading the thread title.
The last 50 years...?
My votes go to (in no particular order):
George Chuvalo- his chin was the kind of stuff from which legends are made. He stubbornly refused to drop to the floor while being pumelled by Foreman, forcing his corner to throw in the towel.
Nicolino Locche-- was stopped only once in 136 fights, and not because he was dropped (he was seldom hit, much less dropped) but because he failed to come out for the 10th round finding it difficult to breath through a bloody nose.
The young Sugar Ray Leonard (who withstood/eluded the power of heavy hitters like Hearns, Duran, Hagler...)
Marvin Hagler- Nobody but nobody stopped him in 67 fights.
Winky Wright- Defense is his game. Nobody has stopped him in 52 fights. Julio Cesar Vasquez dropped him five times in four rounds of their 12-round fight, but not only did Wright go the distance, he refused to let Vasquez totally dominate the fight.
Among Asians, the ones I can quickly remember are (randomly):
Jiro Watanabe- ruled as WBA champ but was stripped when he tried to unify the SuperFly title by facing WBC champ Payao Pontarat of Thailand. He won over Pontarat by controversial SD, and thus became WBC champ. He vindicated himself by taking on Pontarat in his first title defense, dominated the Thai for most of the 10 rounds before dispatching of his opponent in the 11th. He was never stopped. Summing up his apperances as WBA and then WBC champ, he had about a dozen successful title defenses. He lost his WBC crown by decision to Gilberto Roman.
Gerry Penalosa- He still has not been stopped; I don't know if he was ever knocked down in any of his 60 fights.
Fighting Harada- In 62 fights, he was stopped only by Jose Medel ( he subsequently decisioned Medel) and Johnny Famenchon (in Harada's last fight). The other HOF's he faced were Eder Jofre (won, SD) and Lionel Rose (lost, MD).
Johnny Famenchon (French-born Australian)- Lost only 5 of 67 fights and not one of those losses was by stoppage. Lost by decision to Vicente Saldivar and won twice over Fighting Harada (first, by controversial decision in which the great Willie Pep, who was referee and lone scoring judge, was seen to have committed a serious blunder; and, subsequently, by 14th round TKO.)
Hiroyuki Ebihara- Short-lived "Undisputed Flyweight King" (WBA and WBC) in the early 60's. Was never stopped in 68 fights, having lost only 5. Faced the likes of Pone Kingpitch and Bernabe Villacampo.
He won the title from Pone via 1st round KO then surrendered the title to Pone in the return match by SD. He also lost to Villacampo years later in a bid to take Villacampo's WBA crown.
we talking about chins or everything? cause getting hit in the chin isnt the only way to knock someone out. if we talking about chins Oscar has a pretty good one, bhop, and what about mickey ward.
Going back 50 years in boxing,name some fighters that you thought were almost impossible to knock out. Weather it was because they took a great shot,or because they were such great defensive fighters that it was difficult to catch them with big shots.
Id go with
Ali
Marvin Hagler
Ray Robinson
Bernard Hopkins
James Toney
Floyd Mayweather jr
Pernell Whitaker
Just to name a fewShane Mosley
Carlos Baldomir
Sugar Ray Robinson
Carlos Monzon
jake La Motta
yep thats what i said, the man is to hard for his own good, and is making a comeback
no shit, i think it was in ... eh, i'm not even gonna try to remember - but wayne got hit and i shit you not with maybe 20 unanswered, CLEAN BLOWS to the chin - it was a RIDICULOUSLY LARGE amount of punishment.
i think wayne blinked twice through the ordeal and came back to KO dude in the next round.
i remember sitting in silent astonishment for about 10 minutes afterwards.
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Dude was just a straight up animal - born w/ a cement block in his chin.
yep thats what i said, the man is to hard for his own good, and is making a comeback