Some of them
Patterson, Joe Louis, my favorite fighter of all time named Wilfredo Gomez, Felix Trinidad, Fernando Vargas, Bobo Olson, Roger Mayweather, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard on hs later stages, Primo Carnera, Michael Carbajal, Muhammad Ali, Pernell Whitaker, Lennox Lewis come to mind.
Even other greats such as Oscar De La Hoya, Aaron Pryor, Mike Tyson and Mark Breland have been known at one time or another for having suspicious chins.
Howard Davis Jr. was a great boxer, but not a champion so he cant be mentioned hehehe.
Antonio
trinidad came to my mind immediately.
knocked down alot of times which makes me wonder how was he able to pull those fights in his favor...
He pulled the fights on talent, punch and BRAVERY.
Antonio
Well, I had Ali both on the best chins of all time based on the facts that he took punches by Frazier, Foreman, Holmes, and Liston and was never floored.
I also put him in the list of worst chins because, although some may think this is double-standard, he still fell to the floor against lesser people such as Frazier (slightly lesser), and SPECIALLY, Henry Cooper (''Our Ol Enry'' was a great puncher but not in Ali's class), Sonny Banks (definitely not in Ali's class), and Chuck Wepner (tough, brave, not in Ali's class).
I should give him credit for taking Earnie Shavers and Bob Foster's punches also through. In Foster's particular case, even through most of his knockouts were at Light Heavy, even a Heavyweight, slow version of him would scare me!!!
Sincerely yours,
Antonio
All that you guys have mentioned are excellent picks but Im amazed no one, including myself in a similar thread I began, has mentioned these five:
Juan Laporte, stood up while taking shots from Fenech, from the GREATEST PUNCHER OF ALL TIME, NAMED Wilfredo Gomez (40-1-1-, 40 kos before their fight) from Julio Cesar Chavez, from Nelson, from Tszyu, from Zack Padilla, Rocky Lockridge, Barry McGuigan..he was only dropped once and stopped only when his corner threw the towel against Padilla otherwise he'd gone the distance too.
Marco Antonio Barrera: Pheeww! Three battles with Erik Morales and never went down. Has been down with Kennedy McKinney and with Pac Man and with Junior Jones, but the guy earns his stripes for the three fights with Morales as well as Jones II, Orlando Fernandez (who broke Julio Gervacio's jaw) and others. Which leads me to.....
Erik Morales. Once again pheeew! Has taken the best from everyone and has only been down twice, never knocked out.
Sixto Escobar, 63 fights and yes he lost 18 but Puerto Rico's first world champion was never stopped, never even put on trouble! All his losses were by guys who outboxed him and he outfought most of them the next time around.
Arturo Gatti: His fights with Micky Ward tell the story. Gabe Ruelas, Oscar De La Hoya dropped him once but he was on his feet (I think) when it was stopped in round five. One that put a dent to his reputation was Angel Manfredy through. FTR, I think he's way mismatched with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ray Mancini Most of his stops were on cuts. Tough nosed fighter who never said no and was knocked out on the floor only by Alexis Arguello, and by light hitting Greg Haugen when Mancini was way past his prime.
And remember, most magazine writers tend to list the old timers and non minorities more than anyone else :) not trying to make this a racist issue, every race has awesome boxers and I love Americans, but, Ring and KO and all the other magazines often tend to rank Americans over everyone else :)
Antonio