Best chins of our era thoughts on the list?

[DaxxKahn]

Don't see a thread on it but sure many of you caught it on yahoo...
Five best chins in boxing - Boxing - Yahoo! Sports

They have

#5-Vitali Klitschko

#4- James Toney

#3- Antonio Margarito

#2 Shane Mosley

#1- David Tua.....

Just falling short was Glen Johnson, Tomaz Adamek and Librado Andrade....

Thoughts? Opinions? Anyone you would like to add or take off the list?...I thought it was a fairly good list though a case could be made for

Hopkins, DLH ( A weight drained DLH, and under sized DLH had been stopped but when you look at his list of opp it is amazing he was only stopped in those 2 instances)...Winky Wright...

[ElTerribleMorales]

Don't see a thread on it but sure many of you caught it on yahoo...
Five best chins in boxing - Boxing - Yahoo! Sports

They have

#5-Vitali Klitschko

#4- James Toney

#3- Antonio Margarito

#2 Shane Mosley

#1- David Tua.....

Just falling short was Glen Johnson, Tomaz Adamek and Librado Andrade....

Thoughts? Opinions? Anyone you would like to add or take off the list?...I thought it was a fairly good list though a case could be made for

Hopkins, DLH ( A weight drained DLH, and under sized DLH had been stopped but when you look at his list of opp it is amazing he was only stopped in those 2 instances)...Winky Wright...

nice thread, just to add a few

Chuvalo, Holyfield, Foreman, Morales, are a couple of others

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Oliver McCall, Wayne McCullogh, Gatti and Ward. Is it only guys that are currently fighting?

[Spicoli]

Always love these. Getting dropped and staying on the mat are different things. Chin durability should be just going down, getting buzzed in the first place...far more factors can come in when a guy gets "ko'd".

Ray "I actually took a knee vs Holyfield" Mercer. Head of granite.

Chavez senior. Dropped vs Randall...wobbled in 2nd fight but what else for a guy who put himself in the fire?

Juan Laporte was walking titanium. Head was g.o.a.t

Not so sure about Toney. Good head yeh but his defense was sensational. Was buzzed vs Littles, McCallum, Jones jr. Peter dropped him but suppose thats nit picking. Oscar likewise. Got dropped early on, Ike, and belly caved vs Hopkins. Both sturdy no doubt.

Adamek is a tuff SOB but has been shaken and stirred on occasion himself. Banks, Cunningham and an AARP collecting Grant. Fatigue a factor but rocked is rocked.

Just noticed it indicated 'our era' aww well Angulo? Williams ? Joseph Agbeko? Shite I may hate myself for this but Rocky Juarez

[ElTerribleMorales]

Always love these. Getting dropped and staying on the mat are different things. Chin durability should be just going down, getting buzzed in the first place...far more factors can come in when a guy gets "ko'd".

Ray "I actually took a knee vs Holyfield" Mercer. Head of granite.

Chavez senior. Dropped vs Randall...wobbled in 2nd fight but what else for a guy who put himself in the fire?

Juan Laporte was walking titanium. Head was g.o.a.t

Not so sure about Toney. Good head yeh but his defense was sensational. Was buzzed vs Littles, McCallum, Jones jr. Peter dropped him but suppose thats nit picking. Oscar likewise. Got dropped early on, Ike, and belly caved vs Hopkins. Both sturdy no doubt.

Adamek is a tuff SOB but has been shaken and stirred on occasion himself. Banks, Cunningham and an AARP collecting Grant. Fatigue a factor but rocked is rocked.

Just noticed it indicated 'our era' aww well Angulo? Williams ? Joseph Agbeko? Shite I may hate myself for this but Rocky Juarez

agree with you, hell i'd say even Malignaggi's name can be thrown in there, when has he seriously been hurt and dropped hard? i mean yea Cotto, Hatton, and Khan rattled him, but the guy can take crazy amounts of punishment

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If Chuvalo counts, I'm gonna throw Matthew Saad Mohammed out there.

[No Contest]

I think you should count guys thet get buzzed and drop but get back up, or is that considered fortitude? Sometimes you just get hit where you can do nothing but drop, its when your down with your brain scrambled and get back up and survive the round. Thats something alot of fightyers dont have.

[DaxxKahn]

Always love these. Getting dropped and staying on the mat are different things. Chin durability should be just going down, getting buzzed in the first place...far more factors can come in when a guy gets "ko'd".

Ray "I actually took a knee vs Holyfield" Mercer. Head of granite.

Chavez senior. Dropped vs Randall...wobbled in 2nd fight but what else for a guy who put himself in the fire?

Juan Laporte was walking titanium. Head was g.o.a.t

Not so sure about Toney. Good head yeh but his defense was sensational. Was buzzed vs Littles, McCallum, Jones jr. Peter dropped him but suppose thats nit picking. Oscar likewise. Got dropped early on, Ike, and belly caved vs Hopkins. Both sturdy no doubt.

Adamek is a tuff SOB but has been shaken and stirred on occasion himself. Banks, Cunningham and an AARP collecting Grant. Fatigue a factor but rocked is rocked.

Just noticed it indicated 'our era' aww well Angulo? Williams ? Joseph Agbeko? Shite I may hate myself for this but Rocky Juarez

Walking a fine line on some no? Though with a list like this it is hard to put guys on who have been down but gotten back up to fight on several occassions when there are guys out there who have never been down like Vitali who has never been down or guys like Shane who has only been down once and these guys have been fighting at the elite level for so long still managing to stay down.....I do though personally try to think at what point the knockdowns happened...Toney at HW against a monstor puncher like Peter when Toney was not a treu HW just a fat ass I really don't hold it against him....The body shots like the one DLH suffered I don't hold against him because I don't care how good your chin is you get a liver shot clean on and you are going down.....I love how you updated Williams from your list ha ha

[p4pking]

I don't think you can really count guys with great recovery powers or big hearts etc as would be the case with JMM and Calzaghe. Sure they have/had very good chins, but more so elite boxing skills which make it very hard to land(or follow up with) the type of shots that truly finish guys off, at least with any consistensy. Mayorga absolutely had one of the best chins of our era for the lower weights, the problem is that he relied on it and it got dented. If Calzaghe or Marquez fought like Mayorga did for a while no doubt they would have easily been knocked out, as is the case with the vast majority of fighters of any calibre. Watch him fight Vernon Forrest again, or Trinidad(both VERY capable of knocking guys cold). I can't really think of any other fighter who could actually use their chin as a weapon like that with any success. Mosley is about as freakishly tough as they come as well. Only Forrest ever actually hurt him and I suspect the headbutt is what actually did it for the most part. I can't really argue with the list other than adding Mayorga I guess.

[Master]

Marcus Villasana (spelling) took bombs from Hodgkinson and just kept coming.

[DaxxKahn]

Oliver McCall, Wayne McCullogh, Gatti and Ward. Is it only guys that are currently fighting?

No it was just our era...Retired or not,,,,From the way you look at the list seems like they only went back to the mid 90's....If it was an all time list there would be many different names on it....Lite ETM stated in his post about Chuvalo...If it was an all time list I don't think I personally could truly make one of just 5 guys...McCall is a good one for sure in truth he has never been stopped his only stoppage loss on record came due to his mental breakdown in the ring against Lennox and it was stopped because he would not fight not due to a beating so yeah McCall is a good name

[Violent Demise]

Oliver McCall, Wayne McCullogh, Gatti and Ward. Is it only guys that are currently fighting?

I'll put Gatti in the best/most heart category. Not in best chins. Hurting Gatti was not exactly that hard. Wilson Rodriguez damn near stopped him. He was not a big hitter. Nor was Calvin Grove who shook him pretty good