I Just Realised Something About Oscar We Don't Give Him Credit For

[Steak]

Oscar was knocked down against Quartey, Whitaker, Campanella, and Valenzuela.

...not suggesting he had a bad chin, jsut a response to someone asking when he had been knocked down.

[coufsax]

Oscar was knocked down against Quartey, Whitaker, Campanella, and Valenzuela.

...not suggesting he had a bad chin, jsut a response to someone asking when he had been knocked down.

Quartey was the only time he was hurt if I recall correctly.

[IMDAZED]

Oscar was knocked down against Quartey, Whitaker, Campanella, and Valenzuela.

...not suggesting he had a bad chin, jsut a response to someone asking when he had been knocked down.

Also knocked down against Hopkins.

[coufsax]

Also knocked down against Hopkins.

"Knock Out" by a body shot.

[coufsax]

I knew that this form was about Oscar's chin before I opened it. Ya talk about Margarito's chin, but Oscar took Mosley and Pacquiao's punches waaaay better than Tony. Oscar has been down but they all look like flash kd's to me. Never really seen him wobbled badly. Mosley has been knocked out on his feet and people always say he has a great chin. Oscar's chin was crazy.

Mosley Knocked Out on his feet???? He has been hurt but not seriously, against Mayweather also but I could be wrong. Oh against Forrest he was hurt pretty bad.

[BxFanViento]

Oscar has never been KTFO except when he faced Hopkins in a weight division which did not suit him.

Oscar faced big punchers throughout his career (Chavez,Trinidad,Mayorga,Mosley etc)

and he fared quite well

So yes he has an ATG great chin.

[IMDAZED]

Oscar has never been KTFO except when he faced Hopkins in a weight division which did not suit him.

Oscar faced big punchers throughout his career (Chavez,Trinidad,Mayorga,Mosley etc)

and he fared quite well

So yes he has an ATG great chin.

He fought at Hopkins at 156. I think it suited Bernard less than it did Oscar.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Oscar was knocked down against Quartey, Whitaker, Campanella, and Valenzuela.

...not suggesting he had a bad chin, jsut a response to someone asking when he had been knocked down.

He was knocked down early in his career vs Campanella and Valenzuela and was legitimately knocked down vs Quartey but in the Pernell fight it was an obvious trip that was called a knock down.


By the way Pernell Whitaker called Oscar a "Dinosaur" when he was going to fight Pacquaio.

[Thread Stealer]

Oscar had a very good chin. As we've seen with other fighters, his punch resistance seemed to get better as he moved up in weight, suggesting that he was weaker and maybe drained at the lower weights (where he was huge in size at). Going into the Rafael Ruelas fight @ 135, part of the questions going in were each guy's chins. People thought both of them were chinny, as De La Hoya had been dropped by Valenzuela & Campanella. By the time he got to WW, there were no questions about his chin.

I wouldn't call it top ten though. There's been too many fighters out there with great chins to rank him THAT highly. Oscar generally had a pretty good defense too. It's not as if his fights featured him taking a lot of sustained punishment where he's hit consistently with flush shots to the chin.

[DeltaSigChi4]

I thought this was going to be about Millie.

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