The Best Chin in Boxing (All Time)?

Question

Who do you think had the best chin in boxing history and why

Answer 1

James "Lights Out " Toney ! Think about it, when have you ever seen him hurt?

Answer 2

This leans away from Boxing but he's still a fighter...James Thompson. Sure kimbo is a joke, but his haymakers are not. James Thompson took about 5-10 of those to the chin I believe..maybe even more and handled them like nothing, but I must say...James has the worst defense of all time!

Answer 3

jake lamotta, the bronx bull ~ fighters would break their hands trying to knock him out.

he was only stopped 4 times in 106 bouts but never knocked out, one of those he threw, one was to ray robinson in their 6th fight.

Answer 4

george chuvalo,he is the man as far as good chins go.he never went down in his entire career and that includes fighting Ali twice,foreman,and frazier.Ali said that he hit him with everything he had and still chuvalo wouldn't go down

Answer 5

Manny Pacquiao!

Answer 6

chavez with over 100 fights and only 1 touch down, Nigel Benn he yous to take more shots to the face than enny one in boxing history,and he didn't avoid the big hitters neither, Haggler had a great chin to and had to use it with being a great pressure fighter but quite basic,and having to face fighters with the skill that he had to face meant he had to tough thing up with them and he got caught more than you'd like,but his chin was up to it and his power payed of in the end,if it didn't pay of early. Ali but its amazing how much power leaning on the ropes can absorb,and if your weak you can cater-pult off them with punches like Ali but you wouldn't get away with all that these days they'd tell you to get on with the fight ,but that's why when your hurt you some times go to the ropes and lean back on them many boxers use the ropes to fight off because they realize this i do it my self  but loose ropes would be great Jake Lamto as another solid chin

Answer 7

toney did get hurt by roy jones jr, he even knockdown toney so idk why you meyioned tony , i'd have to say margarito and mayorga

Answer 8

1 : Muhammad Ali - fought in the toughest era of heavyweight history, was in with some of the sports biggest punchers took shots but was never knocked out.  Norton broke Ali's jaw in the 4th round and Ali still did not go down and finished the fight over 15 rounds.

Larry Holmes

Mike Tyson

Evander Holyfield - Vander knew how to take a punch, he was very good at rolling with the punch.

Marciano-  was never knocked down, but he did not fight the power punchers or big men the other guys fought and he was knocked down by light punching Archie Moore

George Chuvalo

Answer 9

aurturo gatti he can take punishment like no other

Answer 10

Margarito. Did you see how he got hit against Cotto, which is one of the best hitters in his weight class, and Margarito just kept getting hit and walking forward. He also did the same thing against Cintron. This guy doesn't have a good chin, he has a steel face.

Answer 11

Some of the great chins in history include: Rock Marciano, Jake LaMotta, George Foreman, Ray Mercer, Bernard Hopkins, Julio Cesar Chavez, George Chuvalo, Tex Cobb, James Toney, etc.

For years, I always said the best chin was Marvelous Marvin Hagler.  He had over 60 fights with many murderous punchers on his resume and he was only ever knocked down once, and that was more of a slip than a punch, against Juan Roldan.

But I have to include Antonio Margarito near the top of  that list.  What a chin he has!!!  He took some shots from Cotto, Josh Clottey, Daniel Santos, and Paul Williams.  And he never blinked!!!

PS - I have to disagree with Ruddiger on one point.  Even though he was really a natural light heavyweight, Archie Moore was anything but light punching.  He has the most knockouts in the history of boxing.

Answer 12

1. Ali

2. Hagler

3.LaMotta

and for current fighters I would say Margarito stopped only once on a cut

Answer 13

I think its a toss up between Ezzard Charles and Rocky Marciano.  Marciano was a bleeder; it was not uncommon for the man to come out of the ring with a face red as a tomato.  Bleeding so profusely, you loose energy, and that he was able to STILL take punishment, even while bleeding, is a testament to the granite head of the guido.  You do know that airbags were invented to protect cars from Italian's heads right?

Still though, the only weapon Marciano had was his "suzie Q" straight right.  How powerful was that right?  He could knock unconscious his opponents any time he felt like it.  That right of his was something to fear; "Marciano; knock out your opponent whenever the f*ck you want."  In a nutshell that was Rocky Marciano.  His left arm was only average punching power wise, however that right of his was likely the deadliest weapon in boxing history.  Marciano was lethal not just because the right had power, he was also lethal because he could aim it.  In fact, in the majority of his K.O.'s, he always ended the fights with a single blow from his "suzie Q."  To entertain the crowd he would do slugging matches but because he stunk at boxing, he took a lot of punishment.  He even absorbed blows from an aging but still strong Joe Louis.

His most brutal bout was with Ezzard Charles, who elbowed him, and cut open his nose.  The referee said that if Marciano did not end the fight by the time the next round was over, he would stop it and give Charles the T.K.O.  Marciano responded by bullrushing Charles and firing his straight right.  How powerful was that right?  When he knocket out Jersey Joe Walcott, it sounded like an exploding tire.  The collision I mean.  The punch was so powerful, the crowd fell silent, and people thought Marciano killed him.  To Walcott's credit he recovered and enjoyed relative good health to the end of his days.

The only boxer to absorb Marciano's lethal right more than once, is Ezzard Charles.  In fact, only Ezzard Charles went the distance with Marciano; most people were usually destroyed outright by 8th round.  Marciano also had a few 1st round K.O.'s but his promoter told him, 1st round K.O.'s don't make money.  People pay to see one man get brutalized; what makes Charles unique, and this is something Marciano publicly admitted to, was that he was the only opponent he did not have to "hold up."  The majority of opponents, Marciano had to hold them up; 9 times out of 10 they were no match for him.

I would give the toughest chin in boxing history to Ezzard Charles for taking blows that had the force of a baseball bat behind them.  You watch the old timers box, and leather clashing on flesh is a sickening sound to hear.  In modern boxing, you do not hear the gloves land as loudly as with the old timers.  You must also remember, in the old days sound capturing devices weren't as good as they were in the 80's, 90's and now.  That the punches sounded that loud, when they were captured by primitive microphones, probably means the old heavies hit much harder.

The 50's Marciano would not merely beat modern heavies, the likes of Klitchko included; he would grind their bones into ash.  The only boxers with the physical potential to beat Marciano would have to be Tyson, and Joe Louis, with Tyson having been born in Marciano's era.  Tyson in the 80's, no way; his opponents were all chumps, whereas in the olden days of boxing, everybody was tough mentally from having grown up in the depression era, and from serving in the army during WWII.  Had Tyson been groomed in that time period absolutely he would have had the potential to beat Marciano.

An untested, not truly challenged Tyson though, of the 1980's, forget it.

Answer 14

George Chuvalo. He took Foreman's and Frazier's punches like a champ(no pun intended) without going down.

Currently i'd have to say, Margarito, has the best chin in boxing.

Answer 15

I know it was a short carrer but Salvador Sanchez was never down. See youtuve for clarification also Chavez. Margo,

Chavez with over 100 fights was down once and it was a flash knock down.