Great fighters who cant take a punch!

[porkypara]

Khan fight this weekend got me thinking about fighters who were sucsessfull even thought they did not hold a shot to well.


Tommy Hearnes comes to mind.

If he had a better chin he might have been the greatest fighter of all time.

[JazMerkin]

Terry Norris

Tommy Hearns is the obvious one, but I don't think even if he had a better chin that he would've been the best of all time.

[The Congressman]

RJJr

[ICB]

Khan fight this weekend got me thinking about fighters who were sucsessfull even thought they did not hold a shot to well.


Tommy Hearnes comes to mind.

If he had a better chin he might have been the greatest fighter of all time.

I actually think at Welterweight his chin wasn't that bad, it was more his stamina that let him down against SRL. Anyway back on topic.

Floyd Patterson comes to mind straight away, but maybe im being a bit unfair on him. Considering he was really too small for Heavyweight.

[JonnyFolds]

Khan fight this weekend got me thinking about fighters who were sucsessfull even thought they did not hold a shot to well.


Tommy Hearnes comes to mind.

If he had a better chin he might have been the greatest fighter of all time.

I actually think at Welterweight his chin wasn't that bad, it was more his stamina that let him down against SRL. Anyway back on topic.

Floyd Patterson comes to mind straight away, but maybe im being a bit unfair on him. Considering he was really too small for Heavyweight.

Yeah I agree completely.. Tommy's chin was not that bad.. I mean he got wobbled on a number of occassions. But I think some big punchers did it.. Hagler, Barkley Leonard..

Terry Norris
John David Jackson
Ricky Hatton
Lennox Lewis
RJJ
Earnie Shavers

[AdamGB]

as soon as I read the thread title I knew people would be starting with the Lennox lewis nonsense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng

He's a heavyweight for god's sake... yes he has two KO losses but if a 220 pound man hits anybody clean on the chin and they don't see it coming then they will get knocked out.

The two shots that got him were pretty massive. The glass jaw chin is basically a story/fallacy spread about him by people who haven't seen much, if any of his fights besides:

a) The Tyson fight
b) The Knockouts

Bruno hit him with some MASSIVE punches.

As for Roy Jones Junior, that's debatable... who had decent punch resistance... tarver caught him right on the button with a massive punch he didn't see coming, again - if a light heavyweight hits you flush then you'll know about it.

The Johnson knock out was the result of a sustained beating.

I don't think Roy had a great chin or anything but it is underrated to say the least.

and Lewis' chin is ridiculously underrated.

[jdonaher1]

Kinda depends on what you mean - a guy that gets buzzed alot or a guy who's chin let him down. Guy like Gatti and Corrales got hurt in a bunch of there fights but always seemed to fight back. Both got knocked down plenty but I think both were only counted out once each late in there careers.

I never seen Lewis get really buzzed in a fight but he did get KO'd twice so who has a better chin?

Terry Norris has to have had the worst chin of any top level fighter I've ever seen. He had the ability to box circles around guys but choose to bang with guys. He lost muti-million $$ paydays with Chavez & De la Hoya becasue of it.

[ElTerribleMorales]

Chico Corrales
Tommy Hearns
Tito Trinidad
Terry Norris

[GAME]

as soon as I read the thread title I knew people would be starting with the Lennox lewis nonsense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng

He's a heavyweight for god's sake... yes he has two KO losses but if a 220 pound man hits anybody clean on the chin and they don't see it coming then they will get knocked out.

The two shots that got him were pretty massive. The glass jaw chin is basically a story/fallacy spread about him by people who haven't seen much, if any of his fights besides:

a) The Tyson fight
b) The Knockouts

Bruno hit him with some MASSIVE punches.

.

Lol

Lewis has only been down twice in his entire career and yet the haters say he has a glass jaw when most other heavies have been floored more often.

When you consider all the names Lewis faced and all the years he had at the top its quite remarkable that he only touched the canvas twice.

[rjj tszyu]

as soon as I read the thread title I knew people would be starting with the Lennox lewis nonsense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng

He's a heavyweight for god's sake... yes he has two KO losses but if a 220 pound man hits anybody clean on the chin and they don't see it coming then they will get knocked out.

The two shots that got him were pretty massive. The glass jaw chin is basically a story/fallacy spread about him by people who haven't seen much, if any of his fights besides:

a) The Tyson fight
b) The Knockouts

Bruno hit him with some MASSIVE punches.

As for Roy Jones Junior, that's debatable... who had decent punch resistance... tarver caught him right on the button with a massive punch he didn't see coming, again - if a light heavyweight hits you flush then you'll know about it.

The Johnson knock out was the result of a sustained beating.

I don't think Roy had a great chin or anything but it is underrated to say the least.

and Lewis' chin is ridiculously underrated.

Not to mention Roy destroyed himself dropping down from heavy to light heavy deep into his 30's.

[DaxxKahn]

as soon as I read the thread title I knew people would be starting with the Lennox lewis nonsense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng

He's a heavyweight for god's sake... yes he has two KO losses but if a 220 pound man hits anybody clean on the chin and they don't see it coming then they will get knocked out.

The two shots that got him were pretty massive. The glass jaw chin is basically a story/fallacy spread about him by people who haven't seen much, if any of his fights besides:

a) The Tyson fight
b) The Knockouts

Bruno hit him with some MASSIVE punches.

As for Roy Jones Junior, that's debatable... who had decent punch resistance... tarver caught him right on the button with a massive punch he didn't see coming, again - if a light heavyweight hits you flush then you'll know about it.

The Johnson knock out was the result of a sustained beating.

I don't think Roy had a great chin or anything but it is underrated to say the least.

and Lewis' chin is ridiculously underrated.

Well said, Lennox has actually been in fights where he took massive shots and stood up to them....In the Tua fight he took big shots and stayed upright

The Bruno fight is another

Roy is another fighter it is hard to judge because it was not until after the return trip from HW and combined with age before he was starched

[ICB]

as soon as I read the thread title I knew people would be starting with the Lennox lewis nonsense...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRShCBKwng

He's a heavyweight for god's sake... yes he has two KO losses but if a 220 pound man hits anybody clean on the chin and they don't see it coming then they will get knocked out.

The two shots that got him were pretty massive. The glass jaw chin is basically a story/fallacy spread about him by people who haven't seen much, if any of his fights besides:

a) The Tyson fight
b) The Knockouts

Bruno hit him with some MASSIVE punches.

As for Roy Jones Junior, that's debatable... who had decent punch resistance... tarver caught him right on the button with a massive punch he didn't see coming, again - if a light heavyweight hits you flush then you'll know about it.

The Johnson knock out was the result of a sustained beating.

I don't think Roy had a great chin or anything but it is underrated to say the least.

and Lewis' chin is ridiculously underrated.

Well said, Lennox has actually been in fights where he took massive shots and stood up to them....In the Tua fight he took big shots and stayed upright

The Bruno fight is another

Roy is another fighter it is hard to judge because it was not until after the return trip from HW and combined with age before he was starched

I actually think the Gary Mason fight is his most underrated one, Gary Mason could hit really hard. And he hit Lennox Lewis with plenty of flush shots, and gave him a good argument. But that eye of Gary Mason's was horrendous, i think Memphis once told me. He was there ringside, and he heard Gary Mason "Yelp". As the final blow hit him right in his swollen eye.

[Majesty]

Khan fight this weekend got me thinking about fighters who were sucsessfull even thought they did not hold a shot to well.


Tommy Hearnes comes to mind.

If he had a better chin he might have been the greatest fighter of all time.

I actually think at Welterweight his chin wasn't that bad, it was more his stamina that let him down against SRL. Anyway back on topic.

Floyd Patterson comes to mind straight away, but maybe im being a bit unfair on him. Considering he was really too small for Heavyweight.

Yeah I agree completely.. Tommy's chin was not that bad.. I mean he got wobbled on a number of occassions. But I think some big punchers did it.. Hagler, Barkley Leonard..

Terry Norris
John David Jackson
Ricky Hatton
Lennox Lewis
RJJ
Earnie Shavers

How can you say Thomas Hearns didnt have a bad chin but mention Lewis and RJJr?

[generalbulldog]

Nigel Benn.

[markb018]

Joe Calzaghe