Roy and Lennox... history of their chins?

[Guest]

I haven't seen as many RJJ fights as I'd like to, and I'd turned away from boxing in the mid-90s. So the question is, how do the chins of LL and RJJ hold up?

From the clip I've seen, Lewis appears to go down from a tap vs. McCall, and was badly rocked by Tyson in the first round before holding him. Has his chin ever stood up to heavy-duty barrage?

As for Roy, Johnson said in this month's Boxing Monthly that he believed Roy has never had a good chin, he just hasn't had it tested before. I know he's been knocked down once before... how many shots has his chin had to take?

[mic573]

Roy's chin had never really been tested before until he started to lose his reflexes. He may have been weak chinned all this time we just didn't know it. Jones did say he got knocked out in the amateurs before, the knockdown from Lou Devalle appeared to shake him up a bit and we all know what Tarver and Johnson did to him.

[PBDS]

Roy's chin had never really been tested before until he started to lose his reflexes. He may have been weak chinned all this time we just didn't know it. Jones did say he got knocked out in the amateurs before, the knockdown from Lou Devalle appeared to shake him up a bit and we all know what Tarver and Johnson did to him.

...That's a good assesment!!! I think Roy may have hid his chin issues all these years.

[Mikie]

RJJ was able to avoid the big shots (until recently);

[dempseyfire]

Jones's chin was decent-he took some good shots from Hopkins and in Tarver 1. I don't think he had a great chin, but it was far from glass.

Lewis had a shaky chin-not glass either, but certainly not on par with other HW champions. Besides the two KO losses, he was wobbled/rocked many times in his career, including Tucker,Bruno, Mercer, Holyfield, Akinwande, Briggs . . .the thing was his opponents were usually too stamina-plagued or inefficeint to follow up, and once Lewis regained his composure he fought back. Lewis had heart.

[jack_the_rippuh]

He was staggered hard by Klitschko...it almost looked like an act how much he stumbling, and didn't hit the canvas..

[Guest]

Yeah, I thought about the Klit thing too, though strictly speaking, Klit didn't touch his chin. One of the most exciting fights I've seen, that - I remember it was the side of the head that first rocked LL...

[mic573]

Didn't Vitali rock Lewis with a good uppercut also or was it the other way around?

[Guest]

The other way around. Don't get me wrong, Vit was battering Lewis for lots of the fight, but none of them (as far as I recall) were on that one spot.

[Cletus Funk]

I haven't seen as many RJJ fights as I'd like to, and I'd turned away from boxing in the mid-90s. So the question is, how do the chins of LL and RJJ hold up?

From the clip I've seen, Lewis appears to go down from a tap vs. McCall, and was badly rocked by Tyson in the first round before holding him. Has his chin ever stood up to heavy-duty barrage?

As for Roy, Johnson said in this month's Boxing Monthly that he believed Roy has never had a good chin, he just hasn't had it tested before. I know he's been knocked down once before... how many shots has his chin had to take?

I'd hardly call the McCall shot a tap - it was one of the biggest haymakers I've ever seen landed in a ring (I think he even had his eyes closed when he threw it) Similar with the Rahman shot and I think both these punches would have taken most people out.

His chin's definitely not great though...even Bruno had him going quite badly.