Fighters with great chins...

[Luigi1985]

... but who weren´t that well-known, some examples:

Lou Bogash
Paolino Uzcudun
Duilio Loi
Jack Britton
Bert Lytell

[Zakman]

Well, there's always journeymen types like Marion Wilson who usually don't get any attention when people talk about the best chins of all time.

[Luigi1985]

Well, there's always journeymen types like Marion Wilson who usually don't get any attention when people talk about the best chins of all time.

Exactly! I could name so many fighters who weren´t that great but who had great chins, I started the thread that some boxing fans get to know some new names...

[My dinner with Conteh]

Kevin Finnegan.

[Russell]

... but who weren´t that well-known, some examples:

Lou Bogash
Paolino Uzcudun
Duilio Loi
Jack Britton
Bert Lytell

Brief summaries on some of the punches each one of them took?

Loi was never even off his feet in a hundred plus fights, correct?

[salsanchezfan]

Juan Laporte had without question the best chin I've ever seen.

Cobb deserves mention, as does McCullough. Chavez when he was young.

Sanchez had a marvel of a chin, though I understand he was floored once and nearly stopped in one fight. I'd love to see that one, but I don't think film exists of it.

[Russell]

What's Laporte done to deserve that distinction?

[salsanchezfan]

What's Laporte done to deserve that distinction?


...........Going up against people like Chavez, Tszyu, McGuigan, Gomez, Nelson, Mario Miranda, Lockridge, Sanchez, Pedroza, Murray......I'm missing a few for sure. Absorbed the shots of every worthwhile fighter from 126-140 over a decade or more, and I not only never saw him floored or hurt; I never saw him even really bothered by any punch he ever took. If you were an up-and-comer in that era in those weight classes, you had to go through him. He was stopped in his last fight against Zack Padilla, but that was only because he just leaned against the ropes without doing anything, and the ref decided to stop the one-sided fight. He wasn't even really hurt.

[Russell]

Wow... Heh, yeah, sounds about right then.

Thanks.

[TIGEREDGE]

Marvin Hagler CAN'T BELIVE THAT HE WASN'T THE FIRST TO BE MENTIONED.

[Thread Stealer]

Marvin Hagler CAN'T BELIVE THAT HE WASN'T THE FIRST TO BE MENTIONED.

Hagler is well known.

[rodney]

George Chuvalo is at the top of my list.
Nobody could put him down.
Neither Even Forman or Frazier could do --- and that was when they were at their best.

[Luigi1985]

Brief summaries on some of the punches each one of them took?

Loi was never even off his feet in a hundred plus fights, correct?


You´re correct, Loi was never knocked down or even hurt, and that´s in over 120 fights against punchers like Manca, Ortiz, etc.

[Drew101]

Sixto Escobar...never down in his career.

[Duodenum]

Sanchez had a marvel of a chin, though I understand he was floored once and nearly stopped in one fight. I'd love to see that one, but I don't think film exists of it.It was in Sal's draw against Juan Escobar. Now this was his first match in the U.S., and it was held in Los Angeles, at the Olympic, so I would imagine that footage does exist of it. His ability to take a punch at his peak may be more a manifestation of his exquisite conditioning.

Tony Galento was only dropped by Joe Louis (so far as I can determine), and that was in Two-Ton's 105th match. Tony could well be the only heavyweight to go for over a hundred matches without getting decked. Many times, when somebody with a chin like that does have it fail for the first time, the match is over. To Galento's eternal credit, he came off the floor to return the favor, the only opponent to ever achieve that trick against one of the greatest finishers in HW history.

The difference between a hard puncher and a great puncher is the difference between Louis and the Baer brothers. The Bomber could put his punches together like nobody else. In Tony's next three matches, Lou Nova, Max Baer and Buddy Baer failed to land Galento (although Maxie and Buddy were able to record stoppage wins over him), and each of them has been described as a harder hitter than Louis, punch for punch.

Louis decked Uzcudun in Paulino's 70th bout, with the hardest punch Joe ever delivered. Although Uzcudun couldn't continue, he did beat the count, much to Louis's shock and amazement.

Victor Galindez and Mike Rossman are two others noted for having steel chins before their championship careers ended. Willie "The Bull" Taylor withstood all of Mike Spinks's hardest punches. Spinks was afraid his hands would break when the referee finally intervened.

[Russell]

Yeah, skimming over Galento's record a while ago I don't think I ever saw a pure KO stoppage. Bad cuts here and there, though.

[Stewbear]

McCall
Tua
Lennox Lewis
Chuvalo
Hagler
Duran

[TIGEREDGE]

McCall
Tua
Lennox Lewis
Chuvalo
Hagler
Duran

r U TAKING THE PISSS. LEWIS NEVER HAD A GREAT CHIN. U COULD ARGUE HE HAD CINA IN THAT AREA

DURAN WAS KD A FEW TIMES AND KO'D BY HEARNS (NO SHAME). He can't clain to have one of the ATG CHINS

[Manassa]

Chuvalo? Hagler? Duran? Even Cobb... These men are well known for having solid jaws.

Talk more about Tony Canzoneri, Beau Jack or Panama Al Brown. Lurking around in the even deeper depths of obscurity are Billy Graham, Willie Joyce and Lew Tendler. Delve even deeper and you will find iron-jawed warriors such as Henry Hank and Eddie Perkins submerged away from popularity.

[Titan1]

Mitch Green
James "HardRock" Green.
Greg Page(before 1986)

[Bill1234]

George Chuvalo is at the top of my list.
Nobody could put him down.
Neither Even Forman or Frazier could do --- and that was when they were at their best.

I agree.

[CASH_718]

James Toney

[p.Townend]

Marvin Hagler,Steve Colins and even though he got stopped a couple of times Carl Thompson.Chris Eubank didnt do bad either.
Holyfield has shown a good chin throughout his career as did Ray Mercer.

[Flea Man]

Peter Buckley. Mind you, he had a very good defence.

[Jack Dempsey]

An older Dempsey had Galento down

[mcvey]

He was sure hurt when he fought Pedroza ,but it wasn't punches to his chin that did it. :lol:

[mcvey]

Chuvalo? Hagler? Duran? Even Cobb... These men are well known for having solid jaws.

Talk more about Tony Canzoneri, Beau Jack or Panama Al Brown. Lurking around in the even deeper depths of obscurity are Billy Graham, Willie Joyce and Lew Tendler. Delve even deeper and you will find iron-jawed warriors such as Henry Hank and Eddie Perkins submerged away from popularity.
Henry Hank was popular I can remember him being a staple on Saturday's Fight of the Week.and he did have a hell of a chin.

[mcvey]

Tommy Gibbons
Maxie Rosenbloom
Jack Dillon
Joey Maxim
All LHvy's and all good chins!
Want another ? Dick Tiger

[Jear]

Well, there's always journeymen types like Marion Wilson who usually don't get any attention when people talk about the best chins of all time.

Wilson has been in with everyone and stopped once on cuts, but he has had a lot of 4, 6 and 8 round fights. Not so many 10 rounders. Strong chin none the less

[mcvey]

Kid Gavilan
Bartley Madden
Billy Graham
Carmen Basilio
Joey Giardello

[booradley]

Juan Laporte had without question the best chin I've ever seen.

Cobb deserves mention, as does McCullough. Chavez when he was young.

Sanchez had a marvel of a chin, though I understand he was floored once and nearly stopped in one fight. I'd love to see that one, but I don't think film exists of it.

Sal took Little Red's best shots, and the expression on his face did not look like a kid in the ring with arguably the hardest banging 126 pounder ever. Hell no! He looked like a guy ordering a freaking pizza! Simply amazing.

[booradley]

Chuvalo was a top ten HW for over 15 years, fought pretty much everybody, but was never down.

I think Mugabi's chin was made out of some kind of illegal alien shit from outerspace.

[CANNONBALL]

doug dewit was able to take some thunderous shots early in his career....his resistance waned somewhat later on tho

[JohnThomas1]

I think Mugabi's chin was made out of some kind of illegal alien shit from outerspace.

Mugabi?

[Mendoza]

Chuvalo? Hagler? Duran? Even Cobb... These men are well known for having solid jaws.

Talk more about Tony Canzoneri, Beau Jack or Panama Al Brown. Lurking around in the even deeper depths of obscurity are Billy Graham, Willie Joyce and Lew Tendler. Delve even deeper and you will find iron-jawed warriors such as Henry Hank and Eddie Perkins submerged away from popularity.

Barney Ross has a great chin too.

[leverage]

chavez, duran, matthew saad muhammad, ali, jake lamotta, ray leonard, marvin hagler. Those are some of the fighters with tested and proven chins.