I was just about to put Joe Louis, his chin was pretty soft for a heavyweight champ
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I was just about to put Joe Louis, his chin was pretty soft for a heavyweight champ
Obiously... but how severe this is compared to the punch is what measures how much glass is in your jaw... :P I know you like Zab... but come on... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Starr
I would pick Bruno but I think Physically he didn't take a shot to badly... if he got caught he'd bottle it and wouldn't try to clinch and lean on the other guy or cover up... he'd come to pieces mentally.
Saying that... even if he had the mental toughness of some one like Ali... he would never be renound for having a good chin... ;)
yea i think bruno just didnt have survival instincts
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Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
Thanks for the memoried (Mike Tyson's punchout)
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Originally Posted by Vessel
Felix Trinidad did not have a glass chin. You see how many punches he took against Hopkins to take him out, even after that he got up but his corner jumped in. That was the only time he was KO'D. How can you say he has a glass chin that is crazy.
Often I have thought IQ has something to do with it (although it would be hard to prove); it has always eemed the brighter boxers had the weakest chin. :P
Came could be said about Vargas. He only went down to three HUGE punchers.Quote:
Originally Posted by brazilianbomber
And the other knockdown was a flash and because Vargas' legs were shot because of the weight loss
After Trinidad hes Jaw bacame fragile.
floyd patterson was down a few times
???some of you people amaze me. Tommy Hearns fought for 29 years as a pro.He fought the best of his
era. During those 29 years he had 3 trips to the canvas, one less than LEONARD, and one less than DURAN
one more than TSZYU. Tommy had three legit tko losses, one more than DURAN,and one more than TSZYU
Two of his tko losses were to hall of famers. When you have over 60 wins with an 80% KO rate it means
you spend a lot time in range of counters, three tko losses in countless title fights against some of the
best fighters the world has seen, does not qualify for a worst chin ever list. DUMBARSES.
I'm surprised no one said Roy Jones Jr.
Ruiz chin is solid...The Tua fight was against a young hard hard hitting Tua...Ruiz came in the fight cold and was caught with a massive shot....Learn the difference....Ruiz has stood up against Golota, Johnson, Tucker, Holyfield, McCline, Rahman, Valuev, none have been able to KO him......And lets save the cheap ...Thats because he hugs all night...retortQuote:
Originally Posted by The Whirlwind
Agreed...Bruno would take massive shots before going down....he was stopped more on quanity of shots rather then one big shot...The punishment he took for Lewis and shots from Tyson befoe being stopped would have done any other fighter in with in half the timeQuote:
Originally Posted by ICB
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Originally Posted by BrooklyniteQueen
I am sure you mean Danny Williams.
I think this one has to be added into the files
Vic Darchinyan
It's in the name!
;D
RJJr
Agreed. He's chin is being exposed now bit by bit. He got KOed (zab style) by N.Donaire and recently got floored twice by a mediocre fighter Gorres.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny_G
Roger Mayweather had a glass chin, but he had some good boxing skills and a great right hand, so it did not get exposed too often.
It did not take much to put him down though. I am still in shock as to how Kostya didn't rattle it.
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Originally Posted by The Whirlwind
Man thats rediculous, the guy got KO'd once against one of the hardest HW punchers in recent memory by blows that would have KOd pretty much anyone.
How do you figure? Jones was not stopped until long after his best days and he had went all the way up to HW then down again....Before that he never faltered...and he has been stopped twice...I don't consider that a bad chin....I consider that old age catching up with him and his body taking too much abuse from the gain and loss of so much muscle mass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacstraightleft
I figured you guys would jump all over Gerry Cooney so far I've only seen one put him down.I actually am defending him in this one.All I can say is look he was down against.Larry Holmes one of the greatest heavyweight champions,George Foreman again one of the greatest,Michael Spinks one of the best lightheavyweight champions.I would be glad to be knocked down by any of those fighters.LOL. Anyway you guys pretty much named all the Glass Joe's.
We are talking champions here right? Then it's Hearns!
Chico Corrales
Nice call here.Mayweather Had The highs and lows of both worlds,A searing Right that could stun and hurt the best but His chin at times looked constructed of aluminum foil.His KO loss to Pineda was so explosive and sudden a turn around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deanrw
The fights i've seen of Tito's he didn't have an extraordinary chin either.. But he was able to get back up and recover.
taking the chance of being redundant.. as i didn't read pages 1-4.. i think Diego Corrales was a bit chinny.. i mean, it kind of depends on how you look at it.. the man was a warrior and a machine, but he has to be the guy who has the most 1 punch knock downs i've ever seen.. he may not have been KO'd/TKO'd but he still went down A LOT.. vs mayweather at least 4 times, casamayor at least twice in the first two fights, castillo in the first fight 3 times i think? plus i'm sure more that i'm missing, but he went down A LOT..
not to take anyhting away from him.. he was great, he just got knocked down a lot.. thankfully he was courageous enough to get back up and keep going and thats why he was a champ.
Lennox Lewis. It took a single punch from 2 journeymen. No accumulation, nothing, just a punch and down he goes:rolleyes:.
I'm going with Vlad Klitschko, Tommy Hearns, and Lennox Lewis...
I probably agree with that one... Plus everyone can get caught with a good shot that you're body is not prepared for and you'll go down... Some could say Hatton because he got decked by Mayweather in that case..Quote:
Originally Posted by DaxxKahnHow do you figure? Jones was not stopped until long after his best days and he had went all the way up to HW then down again....Before that he never faltered...and he has been stopped twice...I don't consider that a bad chin....I consider that old age catching up with him and his body taking too much abuse from the gain and loss of so much muscle mass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacstraightleft
I think Roy handled punches pretty well, as age and split second lapses in concentration eventually caught up with him, so did the canvas..
But THEN, we hasn't hit much either..
Oh christ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bookkeeper
Such cliched picks for the "worst chin ever" title.
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Originally Posted by The Fightfan
Ugh, Cooney took MASSIVE accumlation punishment from both Spinks and Holmes before going down.
He was coked out and way past his best weight when ATG great hitter Foreman nearly decapitated him.
Tommy Hearns chin wasnt exactly steel , but Terry Norris had dodgy wiskers for sure , cant think of another world champ with such suspect chin as Norris.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bookkeeper
His offence was enough to beat many challengers.
Roger Mayweather also had suspect chin.
Majority of all his knockdowns were flash knockdowns, i think all these bad chins rumors would have been erased when he fought a much bigger man in Bernard Hopkins and took a pasting and was still there. It took a monster right hand from Hopkins to stop Tito and even then Tito still got up from it.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Chino
He got up from both but was stopped. Down twice in his entire career. Took flush punches off Tyson , Tua , Bruno , Briggs , Grant , Vitali etc without blinking . I think that proves he had a very good chin . Tyson , Evander, Bowe went down more often than him .
I noticed a few people mentioned Roy Jones and I may have to agree. Roy's reflexes were so extraordinary that he almost never even took a clean head shot for the first 40 or so fights of his career. I get the feeling that if in his prime he had the reflexes of a mere mortal, he would have been knocked around the ring like Zab, Wlad, and other glass jawed fighters.
Primo Carnera didn't have the best of chins and he was a "title holder"
Andrew Golota gets KO'd his fair share of times
Zab's chin is decent he took some bombs of Cotto.
Junior Jones had an awful chin. It's really a testament to his skills that he was able to beat MAB twice and compete at an elite level for any length of time, considering how badly he took headshots.
Tito Trinidad was not hard to put down. Hard to keep down, but not hard to put there.
Michael Moorer often touched
Edwin Rosario,Explosive as any but was buzzed a bit
I read about a guy waaaay back named "Joe Grim".More of a journeyman that was dropped ALOT by some big names.17 times by Jack Johnson and about 8 times by Bob Fitzsimmons.Only counted over for full count 1 time.It was written that "The brain cells were so small that the nerves were dulled"....??? I know,not a major guy but more of a WTF thing.