Most chinny fighters?

I'm not talking about no chin aka getting KTFO, but fighters who get dropped a lot but still get up.


I was looking at Tommy Morrison's record and he's been dropped a lot in the fights that he wasn't KTFO.

Who else?

 

Felix Trinidad (esp. at welterweight) and Terry Norris

 

We should qualify it to chinny fighters who were champions or top contenders...or else we can choose Eric crumble or some other bums.

Anyway...in the spirit of the thread:

Tito, Louis...

 

Corrales, Judah

 

Floyd Patterson

 

Good call...particularly Corrales.

 

Michael Moorer, Arturo Gatti

 

Agreed on Moorer, good pick. Can't agree on Gatti.

His chin wasn't granite, but i wouldn't put him in the "chinny" category just because he tasted the canvas a lot of times. Even if Hagler got hammered with the amount of shots that Gatti did in his career, Marvin would have found himself on his ass a few times as well.

 

I thought the fact that he tasted the canvas a lot was enough to put him on the list.

As opposed to a guy like Frank Bruno, who would get KO'd without actually going to the canvas.

 

Floyd Patterson

 

I'm just talking about the "chinny" part. Lots of guys have tasted the canvas many times but i wouldn't call them chinny ala guys like Terry Norris.

 

There is a olympic fighter that turned pro that had a horible chin! Xplosive mentioned him before but I forgot his name.

 

Michael Bennett?

 

YES!!:bears:

 

But he got KO'd a lot.

That Richie LaMontagne fight was brutal.

 

Juan Manuel Marquez...is a possible addition. Not a bad chin by any means...but he can be dropped quite a bit it seems

 

that was a sick knockout.

 

How about his brother?

 

link??

 

I felt Kassim Ouma was chinny...I was surprised he took so many flush shots from Jermaine Taylor.

 

then no, he isn't chinny.

 

yes, he is definitely chinny.

 

Sorry, I can't find any, but it was a highlight reel ko. I think it might have won KO of the year back in 2003 or 2004.

edit: it was in 2002.

re-edit: Lewis KO8 Tyson won the ring's kooty award for 2002, not this one. But it was probably among the candidates.

 

Wlad's pretty bad, of course.

 

How many times has he gotten off the canvas to win?

Is it just Williamson (which wasn't much of a knockdown) and Peter?

 

that's not the point of the thread, though. He has been knocked down plenty of times in his career, and has gotten up most of the time.

 

The Glass Rhino!!

 

The Williamson knockdown was legit, but it's not like he came back and won the fight. It was stopped on a cut right afterwards, and Wlad won a split (but clear) technical decision, mostly based on what he'd done before the knockdown.

I always thought there should have been a rematch. Chris Byrd was IBF champion, and he defended his title against Williamson instead of Wlad. Wlad, of course, sued because he'd "beaten" Williamson. Williamson testified on Byrd's behalf, saying that he'd give up his title shot if Wlad wanted a rematch with him, instead. Wlad refused the rematch and lost the case.

 

I didn't think the technical decision was enough to force an immediate rematch.

Klitschko didn't look great, and public opinion was very down on him at the time, but he was clearly winning the fight and even in the knockdown round Klitschko ended up coming back and acquitting himself well (it was a 10-8 round, but Klistchko won the remainder of the round after the knockdown).

Williamson ended up giving a complete non-effort in his title shot against Byrd (which is only partially excused by the injury he would admit to later).

That was probably one of the worst title fights anybody who watched it has ever seen...the crowd boo'd lustily throughout the fight and was probably even louder when Byrd walked down to ringside during Toney-Guinn.

 

I thought it was a shitty way for that fight to end. Right after Williamson turned the fight around, it ended.