Quote Originally Posted by LegendBoxing65
I always thought that the guys who punched didn't have great chins because they were so involved in delivering a punch that they ended up caught as they were punching and got the effects more dramatically than someone who tightens up and sees the punch coming. Although the lean fighters like Bob Foster or Tommy Hearns or Terry Norris all did not take the best punch, the guys who punched who were squat like Tyson and Tua took good punches yet had to be inside. I think the inside big punchers took better punches than the guys who hit hard from the outside. Foreman is a guy who was both.. He punched hard on the outside and inside yet he was bigger than most so he absorbed the big punches well. Problem with big punchers are that they hit so hard that usually they were not used to getting hit well. But guys who hit hard and had ok chins were Tyson, Tua, Foreman, Hagler, although Hagler was not a big big puncher, but he was decent. One thing about punchers is that Hearns did not take Barkley's punch well in the first fight, but in the second fight he was on the ropes and knew the punches were coming and he took hard punches which surprised alot of people. As though just knowing the punches were coming mad him take it better. Foreman had a better chin later in his career. And Tyson took a punch ok, but the punch would take steam out of him.
















You bring up good points about Foreman later in his career and his chin being better at that stage,,,If you ever see his later fight's ( this is the exact same reason James Toney takes his punches so well) he rolls with the shots even the ones he get's hammered on big he rolls with and that takes a lot of steam off the shots...It is truly an art that if not mastered you will get KO'd quick