power or chin

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Great power almost gaurantees success. You are considered dangerous at ANY level. A great chin just means you take more punishment. Many journeyman have had stronger chins than great fighters.

Power is easily the better bet.

Yeah? Edison Miranda, Artie Levine, Cleveland Williams and Cyclone Hart are on your other line .

Good examples, that also highlight the difficult in classifying a world class power puncher. Miranda is the only fighter I've seen extensively that you list, and his power was incredibly raw(perhaps a tad overrated also imo). He is extremely limited in punch variety, and doesn't have many ways to set up a big punch on the top level. I think that is really the main thing seperating him from someone like Julian Jackson or Earnie Shavers, who were just as chinny and raw to start with similar physicality. Both of those guys had much better timing and in Jacksons case craft and variety. If Jackson were as useless going backwards as Miranda was Herol Graham would've never gotten caught like that, McLellan would've completely blasted him out in the first fight etc etc. Guys who are thought of as limited sluggers often have a lot more to their game than meets the eye, a guy who is primarily a puncher(especially if they are chinny) need to make their opponent respect that they can land from angles, moving back etc.