What fighter has had the most incredible ability to take a punch?

Question

My pick is JC Chavez...

Answer 1

I say Ali He took em from Liston took a sh*t load from Foreman , he took the best shots that the best had the offer and still came out on top dancing. Its very surprising too because he didnt have that super stout muscular meat head neck and shoulders either.

Answer 2

Muhammad Ali

Answer 3

marvin hagler

Answer 4

Thumbs up to Vic 3 Driver I agree.

Answer 5

it's gotta be Jake LaMotta!

Answer 6

some good answers so far, but to exclude jake lamotta is almost a crime, and chuck wepner too.

joe grim was such a freak of nature that he absorbed inordinate amounts of punishment (not even jack johnson could put him away).

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/joegrim.ht...

Answer 7

I have no doubt whatsoever that George Chuvalo the Canadian strongman had the greatest ability to take a punch.  He had an iron jaw and tree trunks for legs.  He took the absolute hardest shots from Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Jerry Quarry, Joe Frazier, Floyd Patterson, Cleveland Williams, Jimmy Ellis, Doug Jones and never hit the canvas in his 93 fight career (73-18-2 (64))  He was always in great condition and very well may be the toughest man ever to step inside of a ring in my opinion.

Answer 8

Marvin Hagler. Never KO'ed, only "knocked down" once in his career against Juan Roldan. If you see the fight tape it was obvious that he slipped. The man had an iron chin.

Answer 9

I'd have to say Ali.. i just finished seeing his first fight with Joe Frazier, i couldn't believe he didn't go down between round 11 and 12, Smokin' Joe threw d**n hard punches that wobbled Ali, but The Greatest stood ground, fought on, and didnt fall

Answer 10

Yeah, Chavez was awesome, Aaron Pryor was another one, Ali and Gatti also come to mind.

Answer 11

Wow, there are quite a few that come to mind:

George Chuvalo- never knocked down in his entire career and took some tremendous beatings.

Randall Cobb- was the reason why Howard Cosell stopped commentating for boxing.  Larry Holmes put a tremendous beating on him, but Cobb never went down and the ref never stopped the fight.

Muhammad Ali- was knocked down but not that many times, and he always got back up no matter what (even when his jaw was broken in the first Joe Frazier fight) and he took a lot of punches from all-time great fighters.

Arturo Gatti- never stopped trying even when it was hopeless (his fights with Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Alfonso Gomez, Carlos Baldomir)

Jake Lamotta- could take a punch square on the chin like no other and fought the best pound for pound fighter ever, Sugar Ray Robinson 6 times and never went down once in all 6 fights (he lost 5 of them).  He managed to put Robinson down though.

Librado Andrade- watch his fight with Mikkel Kessler.  He lost every round and got hit with everything except the ring post, but still kept coming forward and making it a fight.

Rocky Marciano- took the best punches from Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore, Joe Louis (past his prime), and only went down twice- his first fight with Walcott and his fight with Moore.  In both cases he came back to knock his opponent out.  When he fought Charles for the second time, his nose was split open, and if it were today it would have surely been stopped, but he asked the ref for one more round, and sure enough, in the next round he knocked Charles out; thats the mark of a true champion.  I hate it when people say that "he never fought anybody"- he did and he is the only fighter to win every single time, no matter the circumstances.

David Tua- took the best shots from almost every top fighter of his era.  He's currently making a comeback, but he's not the old "Tuaman" that we used to know.

Oliver McCall- same as David Tua, except he's still a force to be reckoned with.

Answer 12

Rocky Marciano had the best chin in the history of the sport.  A close second (at heavyweight, is David Tua)

Answer 13

George Chuvalo, (born September 12, 1937) is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxer who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights. He was Canadian heavyweight champion as both an amateur and a professional,

Answer 14

Marvelous Marvin Hagler had the best chin in boxing. Did you see the shots he took from Tommy Hearns? and then returned the favor to him in the third round. Plus he fought the likes of Roberto Duran and others. He was only knocked down once in his career and it was really a slip against Roldan but clearly Hagler outclassed him the rest of the fight. Hagler was voted as having the best chin of all time by ESPN here is the link

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/...

These are boxing experts

Answer 15

Ali, maybe Holyfield, now they're both jacked up from all those blows to the dome.

Answer 16

There are a few great chins that stick out. Ali, Chuvalo, Tua, but I agree with John H. Tex Cobb could were down your knuckles with his head!

Answer 17

Micky Ward

Answer 18

Chuvalo no doubt, Cobb is in second.

Answer 19

Muhammad