Spence vs Crawford since thats between two p4p kings and has a long build up already. Fulton is good but hes yet to be really called a p4p king like Inoue, Crawford, or Spence has
GGG had a great chin and a good poker face but nobody is immune. Brook nailed him with some blistering shots that knocked GGG on his backheels. If anything, GGG looked surprised by them but regrouped and continued walking down the smaller man. The notion that GGG was immune to feeling punches and loves eating shots is just projection. In the Canelo rematch when Canelo came out aggressive, GGG had second thoughts about the Mexican style fight he called for and spent the majority of the fight jabbing and backing away even though his own corner was telling him he was losing.
@@johannsebastian2681 GGG was a career middleweight, meanwhile this was the only fight in Brook's career in which he fought at middleweight and was jumping up two divisions.
@@teedtad2534 Mayweather was a natural lightweight who put on as much weight as he could without risking his speed, stamina, movement, etc being reduced and he managed to get as high as welterweight. He had a handful of fights at 154, despite walking around at like 152 tops. If the worst thing you have on this man is that in his late 30s he didn’t fight a prime ATG who is arguably the best H2H fighter in his division of all time then Mayweather truly is TBE.
I'm happy to see Barrera getting mentioned because it seemed to go unnoticed but yes he had stunning iron jaw. He got hit bang-on and it's like nothing happened at all. Canelo also amazes me because I cannot think of him ever been so much as wobbled. I've noticed many people in the comments don't actually 'get it' and are writing comments about who's been knocked down or stopped x-times. That's not really what this video is describing.
@@alhaymon4539against cotto he got caught at 19 years old lol and against Bivol he was more bothered by his punches than wobbled. Wobbled is when he’s closer to getting stopped or to drop and that only happened when he was a scrub. Since then he could take any lunch
@@alhaymon4539 What do you think 'rocked' means? No, he was never wobbled by either Cotto or Bivol but now you internet bots use 'rocked' which seems to mean hit so hard the force of it moved them or was a 'very hard punch' or something?
In that same fight, he hit GGG with an uppercut that would've turned anyone else into a rock em sock em robot, and GGG just snapped his head back and resumed attacking like nothing happened. GGG's chin is not human
@@Blacattacsquadron mental breakdown doesn't take away from his chin mate. He was crying on his way to the Frank Bruno fight. He wasn't well, but the man could take a punch like no other HW
@@Blacattacsquadronude, Lewis was steadily tagging his ass. It was a mental breakdown. If it was due to pain from lewis. I promise you he wouldn't have fought him twice, and he wouldn't have kept walking around the ring letting Lewis hit him. Riddick Bowe being afraid Lewis's power.. That's another story. And you're a dead giveaway, dude. Anyone that downplays a breakdown. Is 100% a pussy. You wanna call out McCall, because you know you couldn't handle the heat from a local kid in your neighborhood.
He was still recovering from drugs and was having a withdrawal. King basically made him take the fight, knowing he was not right. McCall had his hands down and Lewis still couldn't hurt him, can't think of one heavyweight that could of done it against a prime Lewis of 97. McCall has the best chin in heavyweight history, . He fought for over 30 years and never once hit the canvas.
Juan Laporte had a great chin as well. Fought guys like Sanchez, Gomez, Nelson, Chavez, Tszyu and was never knocked out, dropped or rarely hurt. Shoutout to Marcos Villasana and Wayne McCullough too.
Yes! Fought amazingly well against Sanchez and Chavez too. I thought the Chavez fight was close action wise anyway. Gomez washed him but he still took the shots
I would add Ruslan Provondikov, Paul Williams, Humberto Soto, Carlos Monzon, Carl Froch, Andre Ward, Chuvalo, Bernard Hopkins, and the GOAT Rod Salka in another video like this! Great work!
@@DJH391 yes, but he was known for his iron chin back then. Only Sergio could've done that to him and the first fight showed how great Paul's chin was. He went to war with margarito and took a prime erislandy lara's best shots
Yep. He only got dropped and hurt once by Monte Barrett late in his career. Though, i do remember watching the Tua/Rahman 2 fight, and thinking they should of counted the knockdown Rahman got on him.
I would argue that Oliver McCall and Marion Wilson had better overall chin since they werent stopped on their feet nearly dead nor got knocked down plus they fought stronger overall contenders. Chuvalo has a great chin but it's been slightly exaggerated as Oscar Bonavena cracked him hard and he nearly fell, only saved himself of rebalancing right before he touched the floor. Had the fights not been stopped earlier, he would been 6 feet under by Frazier and Foreman
hagler is easily the GOAT as far as chins go. the quality of fighters and punchers he went up against and the fact that he hasn't ever even been wobbled, he's got the best chin i've ever seen.
Thank you for mentioning Johnny Tapia. He's my hometown childhood hero, probably the hero of every Burque kid of my generation. It's one of my fondest memories watching the Romero fight with my whole family, and Tapia basically punking him the entire fight and winning in the end. If you're not familiar with his life story or career please check out some highlights, him as a person and his accomplishments in boxing should never be forgotten.
Imo the best chin I’ve seen is probably Ali’s. The way he took the shots from the hardest punchers and absolute ATGs like Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Lyle, and Bonavena was amazing! But when it came to the toughest and heartiest, Frazier takes that by a longshot. While Frazier did recover quickly from shots and would still press forward when hit hard, he did have a problem with balance that caused a lot of knockdowns, but that was usually due to his risky moves.
@@MintiesPoopin preach, Frazier could be shot 500 times and he’d still be coming at you, Foreman could probably KO a dinosaur, Ali could take any shot and continue to outbox, Norton could outwit and surprise almost anyone, Bonavena’s pressure was enough to make even the most adaptable uncomfortable, the list goes on. It wasn’t called the Golden Era for nothing!
@@ronmailloux8655 definitely one of the best resumes and his chin rivaled Frazier and Ali’s! I think if Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Norton, and Bonavena never fought, he would’ve been undisputed and probably one of the greatest to ever do it!
Roberto Duran had a granite chin, Hearns was at his absolute zenith of vicious cold ferocity when he knocked Duran spark out and I feel he would have ko-ed anyone in history with that final punch, possibly sent some into a coma and the fact Duran stayed conscious and tried to get up despite his body being in a state of semi-paralysis was a marvel to behold. Hagler seeing that would have known he couldn't fight his normal fight against that terrifying version of Tommy and drew him into a winner takes all bar room brawl fought at close quarters allowing him little space or leverage.
Alvarez hit triple G with that swinging right hand absolutely flush on the chin with a bigger punch than KO'd Kahn, and after it landed the look on Canelo's face was priceless as he backed away with GGG still walking forward.
For Chavez to fight the way he did to not get knocked down until his 90th fight where not only was he in decline but also arguably his body was more susceptible to damage due to the drugs and alcohol he was consuming outside the ring is one hellava feat.
Surprised to not see Tex Cobb on the list man was tanking hits from Shavers and survived a brutal one sided beating from Holmes that lasted the whole fight. Talk about a chin made of steel.
Vitali wasn't a big puncher like his brother, that's why Shannon was able to withstand the onslaught. Shows how big of a puncher was Lewis to drop him 3 times.
That’s why I always say that you could put Lennox Lewis in any era of Heavyweight boxing and he would be undisputed. He punched way too hard and was way too fundamentally sound. Even in today’s era of boxing he would clean everyone out.
On Vitali: You say he wasn't a big puncher but that was intentional. He held back & used his body weight. This still hit hard and wore fighters out to Finnish late. It also saved Alot of stamina, and for a man of his size that's important. Tyson Fury does something similar but he uses his legs more, that normally take abit more off the punch too . As for Lennox being undisputed in any era: Fuck that noise. He had power and he was a good boxer but also a shit load of holes in his game. 1. Had problems with fighters that could Jab, control distance or move well. 2. His inside fighting was shit. An when I say inside fighting I mean him being in a position he didn't choose. Not steamrolling scrubs like Botha or Grant. 3. His defense was shit. Made good use of size & reach to keep at medium range were he was at his best to make up for it but too many holes when pressed. Fighters in there prime like Liston & Foreman would break his ass in two. And he's not out boxing Ali, Holmes. Shit a pre Bowe Holyfeild is more than he can handle.
How much damage you can take is important, but how you take shots is equally important imo and Canelo and GGG and one of my personal favourites Hagler (GOATed chin) took shots so damn well it's unreal, head still straight focused on their target ready to continue. Hagler hade an abnormally large temporalis muscle, which explains some of his graniteness. Many other as well like Holyfield, Duran, pac-man and his rival marquez also had great chins.
Maybe an irrelevant detail, but Bivol was 183 in the ring not 190. That was just Eddie trying to make the risk round bigger, not that he needed to lmao going to 175 to challenge Bivol was already ballsy
I mean, how can you be sure with the naked eye? He didn’t weigh in after rehydration. He didn’t look 195 but I wouldn’t doubt he was north of 185. I’m genuinely curious how you could know haha
These are always the champion boxers coming to my mind when thinking of IRON chins in boxing !!!! - "Big" George Foreman - Mohammad Ali - "The Atomic Bull" Oliver McCall - Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield - James "Lights-Out" Toney - Julio Cesar Chavez - Marvelous Marvin Hagler - Gennady "GGG" Golovkin - "The Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya - Rocky Marciano - Ray "Merciless" Mercer - Riddick "Big Daddy" Bowe "Dr. Ironfist" Vitali Klitschko - Saul Canelo Alvarez - Glen "The Road Warrior" Johnson - Carl "The Cobra" Froch - Danny Garcia - "Iron" Mike Tyson On paper Tyson arguably don't have this distinction of an iron chin calibre, but that could be argued be more related to his more delicate psyche then physical nature. Tyson proved he had a solid iron chin in taking heavy punishment with-out getting cold! But he had a "bully" mentality in the ring that worked to scare his opponents and make them retreat/panic and he follows it up by knocking them out. However that did not work when he fought against opponents that did not fear him and when that happend that Tyson could not bully them in the ring as they "stood up" to his aggression attempts, then it all back-fired for Tyson. Now Tyson slowly became the one backing up and took the heat. This was seen against James Buster Douglas for 10/10 rounds as Doyglas throwed evreything he had at Tyson including the kitchen sink and Tyson could not break it. Not until the 8th round where Douglas got a bbit careless and Tyson landed his sunday-punch uppercut he broke the onslaught, but as Douglas beat the count Tyson was back again in the 9th round to eat lether til that 10th round KO! Tyson was more mentally confused and dissoriented then physically beat when counted out by the referee. Then againt Evander Holyfield we saw that happen again, but in a slower pace where Tyson slowly but steady got discouraged by Holyfield's constant counter-boxing to stop Tyson in his track. Tyson could just not find any answer to get to Holyfield as Tyson was no only a head-hunter who aimed for fast KO's and Holyfield remained determed to defeat Tyson - that was something that had such a strong vibe Tyson felt and slowly gave in to it and in the 11th round he had no more to give and the referee did the right thing to save Tyson from worse beating to a 11th round TKO. The rematch was going the very same faith so Tyson instead freaked out and took a bite out of Holyfield's ear and acted in rage. This was something Tyson's original trainer Teddy Atlas had commented on before the rematch: "Tyson will rather get himself disqualified then lose the way he did. Tyson have never been good at handeling tough pressure in the ring where things not going his way". - Look and behold Atlas, a trainer of 4 HW champions (Tyson, Moorer, Briggs, Povetkin) was right on the money. And against Lennox Lewis, Tyson was never sure he could ever defeat the big Britt as early as there teen days when they had squared offf in sparring, both coming out with minor bruises and minor blood sheding. Tyson was no fool and knew Lewis was superior in strenght, power, stamina but more a stronger mentality to win. That is why Tyson did not want to fight him in 1996 or 1997 or 1999 or 2000 or 2001. Tyson did his best to do like Ali and boost his confidence with talking out loud how great he was and how much better he was then Lewis - but deep down it never worked, as Tyson never accepted to fight Lewis's challanges until late 2001. Not that Tyson accepted the challange for believing he could win, but because the fight was worth a ton of money and he was in need of money. Tyson was in a bad state of his life as it was but having to come face-to-face with the most dominant big man of his era did not help his inner demons. Tyson did all he could to break Lewis spirit with trash talks, insults, threats and even the conference riot = Lewis was never discouraged and still strong in his own confidence and his strong desire to win, and Tyson knew that as the fight came closer. In that fight, Tyson was in superb shape and had done all he could to be in best condition possible, including having added a lot of extra muscles. However after 2 rounds of hard effort, Lewis never backed off and Tyson realized his fears of Lewis dominating him was soon to be over him. Tyson took a lot of beating from Lewis that night and even as Lewisinjured his right-hand punch, he was still nonm the less not going to hold back in punishing Tyson. And in the 8th round Lewis finnished Tyson off. Tyson have nothing more to give as he lays there on the canvas looking up at Lewis with blood over his forehead and accepts he is knocked-out.
For power shots hit on Golovkin i was expecting the flush shot from canelo that he just shrugs off...its rather famous with numerous vids showing the hit
George Chuvallo. Heavyweight contender that fought Ali twice, Frazier, Foreman, and was never even knocked down in his entire career. Ali once said Chuvallo was the toughest man he ever fought.
Back when I used to box I trained with a guy named Mike Sheppard who fought Tony late in his career. He did drop Tony but got blasted a few rounds later.
Antonio Margarito💯 Took 400 Flush Power Punches From Pacquiao And got his Face broken and Still went the distance. Ate Cotto’s left Hook Flush and Laughed at em. Walked down Kermit cintron who had 28 fights with 26 KO’s and ate Everything he threw at him.
@@britishpatriot7386 his come back after retiring for like 10 years it was, you really need to watch all his fights so you can see, hitting his face was like hitting rock I would Imagen 🤣🤣
@@britishpatriot7386Ron Lyle knocked Foreman down twice in their fight. Bent him over with a body shot. The bell saved George in the 4th round. When he came back in 1987 in his 2nd career that's when he had the granite chin
In fairness to Briggs, he has a torn bicep when he fought Vitali. That was the first time I saw Briggs and became a fan that night. He collapsed after the fight and was rushed to a Hospital in Germany and said after the first to visit to check he was ok was Vitali. Plus, Briggs trolling of Wladimir was priceless.
I would say "Manny Pacquiao has strong chin". It got hit by prime Miguel Cotto, prime Keith Thurman, and improved version of Juan Manuel Marquez. Even Marquez admitted that Pacman has the strongest chin of all his opponents.
I'm giving honorable mention to evander holyfield who has a small heavyweight who went up against full-blown heavyweights such as Riddick bowe Foreman Tyson ect.
Head Movement: Loche Defense: Mayweather jr. Chin: Toney Jab: Holmes Power: Tyson Foot Speed: Pacquiao Speed/Agility: Sugar Ray Charisma: Ali HandSpeed: Mayweather jr.
I’m going to throw a name in here that nobody ever talks about because he never made it big. I used to watch him on Friday night fights on espn. The guy was the boricua Rocky balboa. Dude blocked with his FACE! His name was Jesse feliciano… look up his fights if possible I mean the guy just took punches like crazy😂 I hope he doesn’t have brain damage today.
Old George Foreman had an Indestructible Chin. You know his built different, when he took full power punches from Holyfield w/o flinching and ate it like Hamburgers..
Floyd’s knee buckled when mosley landed the 2nd hard right and floyd was clearly hurt but held on because of his iron chin, came back and whopped mosley for the rest of the bout, TbE
Candidates for "Greatest Chins" pt. 2 David Tua Rocky Marciano Randall "Tex" Cobb Micky Ward Joe Calzaghe George Foreman Joe Frazier Marvelous Marvin Hagler
My top 5 most durable fighters of all time are: 1. Joe Jeanette 2. Joe Grim 3. George Chuvalo 4. Jake Lamatta 5. Muhammad Ali/Marvin Hagler When I say most durable I don't necessarily mean best chin. Fighters like Jeanette got dropped many time in his career which wouldn't suggest he had the best chin. However, it was close to impossible to stop him. I also have to factor in what punchers they fought in there career e.g. Ali fought Shavers, Foreman, Liston, C Williams and Frazier. This is one reason somone like Golovkin doesn't make the cut as he hasn't fought as many huge punchers.
@@britishpatriot7386 what's wrong with my list? Who else would you add who could take as much punishment and who's fought huge punchers like the ones I've mentioned?
No list of toughest chins can be complete without mentioning Juan Laporte. He fought great champions like Salvador Sanchez, Wilfredo Gomez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Barry McGuigan, Rocky Lockridge, John John Molina, and neither of them could even knocked him down.
Ali and Larry Holmes. I watched Ernie Shavers absolutely flatline both, and they both got up.... I'd put Fury on there, too, cause of the Wilder fights.
My personal picks: GGG, George Foreman, Mickey Ward, Ray Mercer. To see the importance of “chin”, look no further than Tommy Morrison vs Ray Mercer. Everyone remembers the knockout, but people forget that up until the knockout, Tommy was absolutely dominating the action, landing combinations of bombs on Mercer almost at will. But one guy had a chin, the other didn’t.
As a Brit, the Cooper vs Ali example leaves a bad taste. Ali’s corner unlaced his gloves and took forever to lace them back up to give him time to recover
Since I forgot the comment question of the day .
You can only select one to watch that day , Spence vs Crawford or Inoue vs Fulton?
Spence vs Crawford obviously brother
Thats a easy 1
Spence vs crawford easily
Spence Jr. vs Crawford. Waited too long for that! since November 2018.
Spence vs Crawford since thats between two p4p kings and has a long build up already. Fulton is good but hes yet to be really called a p4p king like Inoue, Crawford, or Spence has
I remember when Brook hit GGG with his best punch and GGG looked at him with sympathy.
Great explanation! LOL. GGG was a beast
GGG had a great chin and a good poker face but nobody is immune. Brook nailed him with some blistering shots that knocked GGG on his backheels. If anything, GGG looked surprised by them but regrouped and continued walking down the smaller man.
The notion that GGG was immune to feeling punches and loves eating shots is just projection. In the Canelo rematch when Canelo came out aggressive, GGG had second thoughts about the Mexican style fight he called for and spent the majority of the fight jabbing and backing away even though his own corner was telling him he was losing.
@@californio1850 smaller man? I think that night Brook was heavier.
@@johannsebastian2681 GGG was a career middleweight, meanwhile this was the only fight in Brook's career in which he fought at middleweight and was jumping up two divisions.
@@californio1850Ggg won 2 of those fights imo quite clearly
GGG is an anomaly.
GGG vs Wilder or Beterbiev 😂 (Assuming both were magically the same weight and size), tho I feel like GGG would somehow still survive
The only time I've seen him hurt was when he was sick against Derevyachenko, and that was a body shot!
On video a black man told Mayweather Floyd Jr to to take on the challenge to fight GGG, Floyd Jr backed down... He AVOIDED Thurman also...
@@teedtad2534
Mayweather was a natural lightweight who put on as much weight as he could without risking his speed, stamina, movement, etc being reduced and he managed to get as high as welterweight. He had a handful of fights at 154, despite walking around at like 152 tops. If the worst thing you have on this man is that in his late 30s he didn’t fight a prime ATG who is arguably the best H2H fighter in his division of all time then Mayweather truly is TBE.
@@kiboma4209Wilder......had power but never established fundamentals to deliver it professionaly.
What's good Kings and Queens I hope everyone's week is going well. This week is on the best chins in Boxing .
Hancho u the goat bruh
I'm happy to see Barrera getting mentioned because it seemed to go unnoticed but yes he had stunning iron jaw. He got hit bang-on and it's like nothing happened at all. Canelo also amazes me because I cannot think of him ever been so much as wobbled.
I've noticed many people in the comments don't actually 'get it' and are writing comments about who's been knocked down or stopped x-times. That's not really what this video is describing.
Canelo has definitely been rocked happened with Cotto and Bivol.
@@alhaymon4539against cotto he got caught at 19 years old lol and against Bivol he was more bothered by his punches than wobbled. Wobbled is when he’s closer to getting stopped or to drop and that only happened when he was a scrub. Since then he could take any lunch
@@alhaymon4539 What do you think 'rocked' means?
No, he was never wobbled by either Cotto or Bivol but now you internet bots use 'rocked' which seems to mean hit so hard the force of it moved them or was a 'very hard punch' or something?
@@moisesvirgen7711 What does age have to do with getting rocked? He got caught by a good shot even made his legs buckle.
@@alhaymon4539with Cotto and GGG. Never with Bivol
Old George foreman’s chin was one of the greatest
that right hand from canelo against ggg in their first fight wouldve knocked out 99.9999% of the population
For real tho. That punch was perfect and had massive speed in it too.
In that same fight, he hit GGG with an uppercut that would've turned anyone else into a rock em sock em robot, and GGG just snapped his head back and resumed attacking like nothing happened. GGG's chin is not human
Hoping to see a mention of Oliver McCall. A heavyweight that never got knocked down, let alone knocked out.
Didn't he cry like b tch and not come out of his corner against Lennox Lewis?🤣🤣🤣. That's one ko/knockdown counted for!!
@@Blacattacsquadron mental breakdown doesn't take away from his chin mate. He was crying on his way to the Frank Bruno fight. He wasn't well, but the man could take a punch like no other HW
@@salaudeenilyas3680 Yeah, McCall wasn't even trying to fight and he still wouldn't get KOed
@@Blacattacsquadronude, Lewis was steadily tagging his ass. It was a mental breakdown. If it was due to pain from lewis. I promise you he wouldn't have fought him twice, and he wouldn't have kept walking around the ring letting Lewis hit him. Riddick Bowe being afraid Lewis's power.. That's another story. And you're a dead giveaway, dude. Anyone that downplays a breakdown. Is 100% a pussy. You wanna call out McCall, because you know you couldn't handle the heat from a local kid in your neighborhood.
He was still recovering from drugs and was having a withdrawal. King basically made him take the fight, knowing he was not right. McCall had his hands down and Lewis still couldn't hurt him, can't think of one heavyweight that could of done it against a prime Lewis of 97. McCall has the best chin in heavyweight history, . He fought for over 30 years and never once hit the canvas.
Juan Laporte had a great chin as well. Fought guys like Sanchez, Gomez, Nelson, Chavez, Tszyu and was never knocked out, dropped or rarely hurt. Shoutout to Marcos Villasana and Wayne McCullough too.
Juan LaPorte has the best chin of any fighter Ive seen
Trueee!!
Yes! Fought amazingly well against Sanchez and Chavez too. I thought the Chavez fight was close action wise anyway. Gomez washed him but he still took the shots
My man hancho been KILLING it lately!
I would add Ruslan Provondikov, Paul Williams, Humberto Soto, Carlos Monzon, Carl Froch, Andre Ward, Chuvalo, Bernard Hopkins, and the GOAT Rod Salka in another video like this! Great work!
Didn’t Paul Williams get sent to the shadow realm by Martinez?
@@DJH391 yes, but he was known for his iron chin back then. Only Sergio could've done that to him and the first fight showed how great Paul's chin was. He went to war with margarito and took a prime erislandy lara's best shots
Ruslan best chin in my opinion, ate Knockout punches from Lucas with ease
@@MikeyLee559 if you refer to a boxer named lucas you probably must be talking about former world champ lucas mathysse if im not mistaken
@@hugocoria7053 duh
I think David Tua should be on here. He had one of the best chins I've ever seen.
Yep. He only got dropped and hurt once by Monte Barrett late in his career. Though, i do remember watching the Tua/Rahman 2 fight, and thinking they should of counted the knockdown Rahman got on him.
😂no
Chávez sr, a known Brawler who went 89 fights without tasting the canvas
The disrespect to Margarito 😂 he deserves it
George Chuvalo had the best chin ever.
He's been stopped before some of these guys haven't
@@Alex-lx9hhlook at the monsters he fought . Best chin .
@@Alex-lx9hh he's been stopped but never down.
I would argue that Oliver McCall and Marion Wilson had better overall chin since they werent stopped on their feet nearly dead nor got knocked down plus they fought stronger overall contenders.
Chuvalo has a great chin but it's been slightly exaggerated as Oscar Bonavena cracked him hard and he nearly fell, only saved himself of rebalancing right before he touched the floor.
Had the fights not been stopped earlier, he would been 6 feet under by Frazier and Foreman
hagler is easily the GOAT as far as chins go. the quality of fighters and punchers he went up against and the fact that he hasn't ever even been wobbled, he's got the best chin i've ever seen.
Thank you for mentioning Johnny Tapia. He's my hometown childhood hero, probably the hero of every Burque kid of my generation. It's one of my fondest memories watching the Romero fight with my whole family, and Tapia basically punking him the entire fight and winning in the end. If you're not familiar with his life story or career please check out some highlights, him as a person and his accomplishments in boxing should never be forgotten.
Figueroa has an unbelievably strong chin, based on what I saw in his fight against Magsayo
he certainly does
barrera is a baby faced killer. he doesn't even register the shots, like no reaction whatsoever. he's got such a stoic demenour. legend
Imo the best chin I’ve seen is probably Ali’s. The way he took the shots from the hardest punchers and absolute ATGs like Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Lyle, and Bonavena was amazing! But when it came to the toughest and heartiest, Frazier takes that by a longshot. While Frazier did recover quickly from shots and would still press forward when hit hard, he did have a problem with balance that caused a lot of knockdowns, but that was usually due to his risky moves.
Boxers were a different breed back then
@@MintiesPoopin preach, Frazier could be shot 500 times and he’d still be coming at you, Foreman could probably KO a dinosaur, Ali could take any shot and continue to outbox, Norton could outwit and surprise almost anyone, Bonavena’s pressure was enough to make even the most adaptable uncomfortable, the list goes on. It wasn’t called the Golden Era for nothing!
George Chavalo is the best ever imo never off his feet and fought all the great thumpers in the golden age of heavy weights.
@@ronmailloux8655 definitely one of the best resumes and his chin rivaled Frazier and Ali’s! I think if Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Norton, and Bonavena never fought, he would’ve been undisputed and probably one of the greatest to ever do it!
True...both matches vs Foreman he was knocked down a lot but he finished both on his feet
Im happy you put Danny in this video as i see so much hate towards him everytime on other videos and social media .
Thanks, Honch. Toney is often overlooked.
Nice video. You need to include George Chuvalo, Jake la Motta and Oliver Mccall in your next video. George Foreman too 👍🏻.
Roberto Duran had a granite chin, Hearns was at his absolute zenith of vicious cold ferocity when he knocked Duran spark out and I feel he would have ko-ed anyone in history with that final punch, possibly sent some into a coma and the fact Duran stayed conscious and tried to get up despite his body being in a state of semi-paralysis was a marvel to behold. Hagler seeing that would have known he couldn't fight his normal fight against that terrifying version of Tommy and drew him into a winner takes all bar room brawl fought at close quarters allowing him little space or leverage.
Alvarez hit triple G with that swinging right hand absolutely flush on the chin with a bigger punch than KO'd Kahn, and after it landed the look on Canelo's face was priceless as he backed away with GGG still walking forward.
We need a glass chin selection next please sir!
Ali was and is the greatest, but without the playing around Cooper had him.
Hagler has the best chin in history, eating punches from some of the strongest punchers
The extremely quick mention of Hagler seems...way too quick.
For Chavez to fight the way he did to not get knocked down until his 90th fight where not only was he in decline but also arguably his body was more susceptible to damage due to the drugs and alcohol he was consuming outside the ring is one hellava feat.
Surprised to not see Tex Cobb on the list man was tanking hits from Shavers and survived a brutal one sided beating from Holmes that lasted the whole fight. Talk about a chin made of steel.
Ur workrate been nuts recently appreciate it bro💯
Vitali wasn't a big puncher like his brother, that's why Shannon was able to withstand the onslaught. Shows how big of a puncher was Lewis to drop him 3 times.
That’s why I always say that you could put Lennox Lewis in any era of Heavyweight boxing and he would be undisputed. He punched way too hard and was way too fundamentally sound. Even in today’s era of boxing he would clean everyone out.
@@cmurphy0707 I think he would have lost to prime Ali and Holmes, but I agree he would beat everybody else on a good night.
I’m pretty sure he has the highest knockout ratio in the history of the heavyweight division but OK
On Vitali: You say he wasn't a big puncher but that was intentional.
He held back & used his body weight. This still hit hard and wore fighters out to Finnish late.
It also saved Alot of stamina, and for a man of his size that's important. Tyson Fury does something similar but he uses his legs more, that normally take abit more off the punch too .
As for Lennox being undisputed in any era: Fuck that noise.
He had power and he was a good boxer but also a shit load of holes in his game.
1. Had problems with fighters that could Jab, control distance or move well.
2. His inside fighting was shit. An when I say inside fighting I mean him being in a position he didn't choose. Not steamrolling scrubs like Botha or Grant.
3. His defense was shit. Made good use of size & reach to keep at medium range were he was at his best to make up for it but too many holes when pressed.
Fighters in there prime like Liston & Foreman would break his ass in two.
And he's not out boxing Ali, Holmes.
Shit a pre Bowe Holyfeild is more than he can handle.
the same punch that put Amir Khan in a comer is the same punch that ggg took like it was nothing.
How much damage you can take is important, but how you take shots is equally important imo and Canelo and GGG and one of my personal favourites Hagler (GOATed chin) took shots so damn well it's unreal, head still straight focused on their target ready to continue.
Hagler hade an abnormally large temporalis muscle, which explains some of his graniteness.
Many other as well like Holyfield, Duran, pac-man and his rival marquez also had great chins.
Maybe an irrelevant detail, but Bivol was 183 in the ring not 190. That was just Eddie trying to make the risk round bigger, not that he needed to lmao going to 175 to challenge Bivol was already ballsy
I mean, how can you be sure with the naked eye? He didn’t weigh in after rehydration. He didn’t look 195 but I wouldn’t doubt he was north of 185. I’m genuinely curious how you could know haha
Lamotta another "Ray you never knocked me down Ray, you never knocked me down"
You should do Glass Chins next!
Canelo vs Kirkland if you rewatch it Kirkland stuns Canelo in the first 30 seconds or so.
Carl Froch was known for his granite chin
One of them G's in GGG gotta stand for granite.
These are always the champion boxers coming to my mind when thinking of IRON chins in boxing !!!!
- "Big" George Foreman
- Mohammad Ali
- "The Atomic Bull" Oliver McCall
- Evander "The Real Deal" Holyfield
- James "Lights-Out" Toney
- Julio Cesar Chavez
- Marvelous Marvin Hagler
- Gennady "GGG" Golovkin
- "The Golden Boy" Oscar De La Hoya
- Rocky Marciano
- Ray "Merciless" Mercer
- Riddick "Big Daddy" Bowe
"Dr. Ironfist" Vitali Klitschko
- Saul Canelo Alvarez
- Glen "The Road Warrior" Johnson
- Carl "The Cobra" Froch
- Danny Garcia
- "Iron" Mike Tyson
On paper Tyson arguably don't have this distinction of an iron chin calibre, but that could be argued be more related to his more delicate psyche then physical nature. Tyson proved he had a solid iron chin in taking heavy punishment with-out getting cold!
But he had a "bully" mentality in the ring that worked to scare his opponents and make them retreat/panic and he follows it up by knocking them out.
However that did not work when he fought against opponents that did not fear him and when that happend that Tyson could not bully them in the ring as they "stood up" to his aggression attempts, then it all back-fired for Tyson. Now Tyson slowly became the one backing up and took the heat.
This was seen against James Buster Douglas for 10/10 rounds as Doyglas throwed evreything he had at Tyson including the kitchen sink and Tyson could not break it. Not until the 8th round where Douglas got a bbit careless and Tyson landed his sunday-punch uppercut he broke the onslaught, but as Douglas beat the count Tyson was back again in the 9th round to eat lether til that 10th round KO! Tyson was more mentally confused and dissoriented then physically beat when counted out by the referee.
Then againt Evander Holyfield we saw that happen again, but in a slower pace where Tyson slowly but steady got discouraged by Holyfield's constant counter-boxing to stop Tyson in his track. Tyson could just not find any answer to get to Holyfield as Tyson was no only a head-hunter who aimed for fast KO's and Holyfield remained determed to defeat Tyson - that was something that had such a strong vibe Tyson felt and slowly gave in to it and in the 11th round he had no more to give and the referee did the right thing to save Tyson from worse beating to a 11th round TKO. The rematch was going the very same faith so Tyson instead freaked out and took a bite out of Holyfield's ear and acted in rage.
This was something Tyson's original trainer Teddy Atlas had commented on before the rematch:
"Tyson will rather get himself disqualified then lose the way he did. Tyson have never been good at handeling tough pressure in the ring where things not going his way". -
Look and behold Atlas, a trainer of 4 HW champions (Tyson, Moorer, Briggs, Povetkin) was right on the money.
And against Lennox Lewis, Tyson was never sure he could ever defeat the big Britt as early as there teen days when they had squared offf in sparring, both coming out with minor bruises and minor blood sheding. Tyson was no fool and knew Lewis was superior in strenght, power, stamina but more a stronger mentality to win.
That is why Tyson did not want to fight him in 1996 or 1997 or 1999 or 2000 or 2001.
Tyson did his best to do like Ali and boost his confidence with talking out loud how great he was and how much better he was then Lewis - but deep down it never worked, as Tyson never accepted to fight Lewis's challanges until late 2001. Not that Tyson accepted the challange for believing he could win, but because the fight was worth a ton of money and he was in need of money. Tyson was in a bad state of his life as it was but having to come face-to-face with the most dominant big man of his era did not help his inner demons.
Tyson did all he could to break Lewis spirit with trash talks, insults, threats and even the conference riot = Lewis was never discouraged and still strong in his own confidence and his strong desire to win, and Tyson knew that as the fight came closer.
In that fight, Tyson was in superb shape and had done all he could to be in best condition possible, including having added a lot of extra muscles. However after 2 rounds of hard effort, Lewis never backed off and Tyson realized his fears of Lewis dominating him was soon to be over him. Tyson took a lot of beating from Lewis that night and even as Lewisinjured his right-hand punch, he was still nonm the less not going to hold back in punishing Tyson. And in the 8th round Lewis finnished Tyson off. Tyson have nothing more to give as he lays there on the canvas looking up at Lewis with blood over his forehead and accepts he is knocked-out.
David Tua had a granite chin to go with his granite hands
Hagler was unbelievable, Hearns (one of the hardest p4p punchers of all time) broke his hand on Haglers chin and, he didn't even wobble.
Folks, keep in mind this is
VOLUME 1. There will be a
VOLUME 2.
For power shots hit on Golovkin i was expecting the flush shot from canelo that he just shrugs off...its rather famous with numerous vids showing the hit
Sam Peter ... brutal puncher.
You gotta had Spence to this list too he's never been seriously hurt. That punch Ugas landed with his mouth out would knocked most fighter down
George Chuvallo. Heavyweight contender that fought Ali twice, Frazier, Foreman, and was never even knocked down in his entire career. Ali once said Chuvallo was the toughest man he ever fought.
James Toney what a chin
GGG chin is insane, tho i would have been thrilled to see it tested against different weight classes. He was a career middle weight.
When canelo hit GGG with the kitchen sink and kept coming forward. Dude is a monster
Always looking forward to an office honcho flick good shit, young man keep it coming ❤✌️🙏🙏
Back when I used to box I trained with a guy named Mike Sheppard who fought Tony late in his career. He did drop Tony but got blasted a few rounds later.
6:36 Epic Hancho music begins to start up
Oliver McCall needs to be on this list fought from 1985 to 2009 and only stoppage was when he had a breakdown against Lewis
Just asked for this couple days ago on another channel. Thank you
Amir Khan could only dream of having a chin of any of these fighters on this video😂😂
Antonio Margarito💯 Took 400 Flush Power Punches From Pacquiao And got his Face broken and Still went the distance. Ate Cotto’s left Hook Flush and Laughed at em. Walked down Kermit cintron who had 28 fights with 26 KO’s and ate Everything he threw at him.
Wayne McCullough gotta be in Vol 2
2:07 all that wiggling,no slip,he was fd up
Good list, great video don't stop making em
Great watch as always Hancho.
Geroge foreman easyily had the best chin ever
Ehh in the second run, yeah but he got knocked down a bunch in his first run
No he didn't at all 😂😂😂
@@britishpatriot7386 his come back after retiring for like 10 years it was, you really need to watch all his fights so you can see, hitting his face was like hitting rock I would Imagen 🤣🤣
@@britishpatriot7386Ron Lyle knocked Foreman down twice in their fight. Bent him over with a body shot. The bell saved George in the 4th round. When he came back in 1987 in his 2nd career that's when he had the granite chin
In fairness to Briggs, he has a torn bicep when he fought Vitali. That was the first time I saw Briggs and became a fan that night. He collapsed after the fight and was rushed to a Hospital in Germany and said after the first to visit to check he was ok was Vitali. Plus, Briggs trolling of Wladimir was priceless.
I would say "Manny Pacquiao has strong chin". It got hit by prime Miguel Cotto, prime Keith Thurman, and improved version of Juan Manuel Marquez. Even Marquez admitted that Pacman has the strongest chin of all his opponents.
I think Ray Mercer belongs on here
Waiting for Glass Chins of Boxing starring Amir Kahn
I'm giving honorable mention to evander holyfield who has a small heavyweight who went up against full-blown heavyweights such as Riddick bowe Foreman Tyson ect.
First one to drop Mercer and Bowe so you know he could punch too.
@@B.Wayne88 you know your fighters! 👍
Thanks. That was an excellent video.
Carl Froch. Granite fucking chin. Up there with anyone's. Never got cracked.
Best chin ever - Carl Froch
Hancho dippin these vids in crack. Gotta have it dagnabbit
Head Movement: Loche
Defense: Mayweather jr.
Chin: Toney
Jab: Holmes
Power: Tyson
Foot Speed: Pacquiao
Speed/Agility: Sugar Ray
Charisma: Ali
HandSpeed: Mayweather jr.
Ali did have a great chin but I never even saw Marciano stunned and can't recall him going down and he took hellacious shots
I’m going to throw a name in here that nobody ever talks about because he never made it big. I used to watch him on Friday night fights on espn. The guy was the boricua Rocky balboa. Dude blocked with his FACE! His name was Jesse feliciano… look up his fights if possible I mean the guy just took punches like crazy😂 I hope he doesn’t have brain damage today.
On that Maidana shot for the 2nd Stankweather fight, stankweather lost a tooth and you can see the tooth on camera
Old George Foreman had an Indestructible Chin. You know his built different, when he took full power punches from Holyfield w/o flinching and ate it like Hamburgers..
GGGs chin is made of diamond. Canelos full leveraged shots for 3 fights never wobbled him.
Ggg is just incredible. 400 fights and never down
I hope sugar ray robinson will mentioned in a later video. In over 200 fights, the guy got stopped once. And that was due to heatstroke
Floyd’s knee buckled when mosley landed the 2nd hard right and floyd was clearly hurt but held on because of his iron chin, came back and whopped mosley for the rest of the bout, TbE
Candidates for "Greatest Chins" pt. 2
David Tua
Rocky Marciano
Randall "Tex" Cobb
Micky Ward
Joe Calzaghe
George Foreman
Joe Frazier
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Nikolai Valuev had a great chin. Haye rocked him a bit once, but thats the only time I recall.
No Fury? I mean, he ate all of wilder's punches and never passed out.
My top 5 most durable fighters of all time are:
1. Joe Jeanette
2. Joe Grim
3. George Chuvalo
4. Jake Lamatta
5. Muhammad Ali/Marvin Hagler
When I say most durable I don't necessarily mean best chin. Fighters like Jeanette got dropped many time in his career which wouldn't suggest he had the best chin. However, it was close to impossible to stop him.
I also have to factor in what punchers they fought in there career e.g. Ali fought Shavers, Foreman, Liston, C Williams and Frazier. This is one reason somone like Golovkin doesn't make the cut as he hasn't fought as many huge punchers.
Dream on pal 😂😂😂
@@britishpatriot7386 what's wrong with my list? Who else would you add who could take as much punishment and who's fought huge punchers like the ones I've mentioned?
Tua has to be in the next vid his chin was God level granite
Beautiful video !! I love it, you covered a lot more fighters then I even considered would be on here. 2 Big Thumbs WAY WAY up 👍👍
the fact that he didnt mention george foreman is out for rageous
No list of toughest chins can be complete without mentioning Juan Laporte. He fought great champions like Salvador Sanchez, Wilfredo Gomez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Barry McGuigan, Rocky Lockridge, John John Molina, and neither of them could even knocked him down.
Lemiuex did land some pretty hard shots on GGG. Jacobs did too, you should have included those
Ali and Larry Holmes. I watched Ernie Shavers absolutely flatline both, and they both got up.... I'd put Fury on there, too, cause of the Wilder fights.
Great video!
My personal picks: GGG, George Foreman, Mickey Ward, Ray Mercer. To see the importance of “chin”, look no further than Tommy Morrison vs Ray Mercer. Everyone remembers the knockout, but people forget that up until the knockout, Tommy was absolutely dominating the action, landing combinations of bombs on Mercer almost at will. But one guy had a chin, the other didn’t.
Fury definitely has a granite chin
Carl Froch had an immense beard
Two words-
Ruslan-mthafkn-Provod-damn-kov
Texas Cobb better be in the next one.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler had the best chin ever.
James Tony is a anomaly
As a Brit, the Cooper vs Ali example leaves a bad taste.
Ali’s corner unlaced his gloves and took forever to lace them back up to give him time to recover
We need to see a video on the worst beards in boxing next…