Best or most shocking examples of great chins being.....

[cleming]

Mike Tyson vs Larry Holmes
Sergio Martinez vs Paul Williams II

[Larry the boss]

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Vitali-Lennox Lewis..that uppercut was disgusting

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I wouldn't necessarily agree. Bert Cooper could crack hard man, and Moorer slugged it out with him. Alex Stewart was a hard puncher too, if I'm not mistaken he messed up Foreman's face real good also - and of course Holyfield - the greatest heavyweight of his time. I think it's fair to say that Moorer was looked at as an established heavyweight with no chin problems.

but yeah, going forward that might have changed, but I'm talking going into the fight. Obviously, I'm not claiming he had a cast iron chin. but I don't think there was anything wrong with it even if he did get dropped before. He always got up and won.

Yeah cooper and Alex Stewart were good bangers.. thats a good point... Kinda forgot about those fights in my earlier post... I guess my own personal opinion leading into the foreman fight was at the time- moorer ok chin...not great, but not fragile...

[BennyST]

Mayorga taking Tito's vaunted left hooks, and smiling and dancing...

He wasn't dancing though. His legs completely gave out. He just tried to hide by fake dancing. He was badly hurt by that and it really messed him up. Not that he would have won, but that lost him whatever chance he had.

[BennyST]

Esteban De Jesus: Knocks down Duran

Wins 58
Wins by KO 33

Before the Hearns fight Duran had never been in the ring with a power puncher with mean intentions. When you tally up the facts it's really not that surprising considering what Hearns was capable of. But yeah Duran did have a pretty good chin.

Actually, De Jesus had some very mean power in his left hook, but he was a little like Rodrigo Valdes. In fact, I think that's an excellent comparison. Both guys used their skill to win fights and other attributes across their careers, but they both had incredible power.

Valdes only guy to drop proper Monzon and only guy to KO Briscoe, yet didn't have a good KO % because he didn't fight like that was his only tool. Exactly the same with De Jesus. He had a brutally powerful left hook, which was renowned in the day as one of the best, but he had a lot of other things on top that didn't make him rely on it.

[joe strong]

Mercer vs Lewis
Wach vs Wlad
Povetkin vs Wlad

mercer\lewis was a go scrap & mercer\witherspoon

[BennyST]

Can't believe no one has said marquez knocking out manny...

Manny has a great chin, hadn't been dropped since he was a teenager over a decade and a half ago...

Marquez putting him to sleep, was shocking

He'd been dropped a couple of times since then and well into his twenties, and hurt numerous times though too, so while it was shocking, it wasn't like it was impossible. He'd shown he could be hurt and dropped, and Marquez had been able to hurt him clearly in each of their fights. He just hadn't been quite going hell for leather on power bombs like he did in the fourth. He hurt him pretty bad in all three of the first fights though, particularly the right hand, left hook that buckled the ****e out of Manny at the start of the second fight...left hook was just a little too long though and he caught him with it at the very end where his power had gone from it.

[Dynamite76]

-Hearns vs Duran
-Valdez vs Briscoe
-Tyson vs Holmes
-Johnson vs Ketchel
-Sandler vs Pep
-Canelo vs Baldomir

I like this topic, this is always a very intense and amazing moment in the sport when it happens.

Never considered Larry Holmes as having a great chin.Very, very good, not great, however.

[BKM-2010]

Never considered Larry Holmes as having a great chin.Very, very good, not great, however.

Getting up from one of, if not the hardest shots ever landed and only being ko'd once in 75 fights past prime against one of the hardest and best punchers ever. Definitely a great chin, just not Hagler-tier.

[Dynamite76]

Getting up from one of, if not the hardest shots ever landed and only being ko'd once in 75 fights past prime against one of the hardest and best punchers ever. Definitely a great chin, just not Hagler-tier.

yeah, a very, very, good chin.