Name the top 3 chins of all time in each weight class
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Great list, but most of the guys in the lower weight classes are still active and haven't had their chins tested as much.
I would have Genki Sudo, Faber, and Hiroyuki Takaya at featherweight. (Edgar and Kawajiri were LWs most of their careers and Conor hasn't fought enough at that weight for me to consider his chin an ATG). Takafumi Otsuka at 135 to replace Faber, Mayhem at MW, and Joe B at FLW
I would have Genki Sudo, Faber, and Hiroyuki Takaya at featherweight. (Edgar and Kawajiri were LWs most of their careers and Conor hasn't fought enough at that weight for me to consider his chin an ATG). Takafumi Otsuka at 135 to replace Faber, Mayhem at MW, and Joe B at FLW
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The problem with these lists is that I think chin and heart get mixed up, guys like Nog, Hendo, Fedor and Shogun for example whilst they did have good physical chins were so tough to finish in there primes due to mental strength. You rock them and they keep on ticking...
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I would mention Ben Rothwell not being far behind Hunt, Nelson and Fujita as well, does rather highlight how dangerous Arlovski was back in the day to finish Ben and Roy back to back.
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Rothwell is another great candidate.
Arlovski was a killer, yeah.
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Gus never KOed. Not even by Rumble throwing GnP bombs, Gus truly has the greatest of all MMA chins.
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He is definitely top 5 but probably number 4 behind Hunt, Nog and Fujita.
Mark Hunt's chin was already legendary from the kickboxing world before he debuted in MMA. The man took LHKs from Cro Cop in both K1 and PRIDE. Absolute greatest chin ever
Nog was punched flush by Hendo, donkey konged by Bob Sapp, ground and pounded by Fedor for 20 minutes the 1st fight and beat up on the feet for 20 mins in the 3rd fight with Fedor, beaten to shit yet came back against Cro Cop, Sylvia and Sapp. Took every HW's best shot and survived until he was 40 fights deep when he was finally finished by a TKO.
You can't "one punch walk off" Fujita. Fujita could take 30 knees or 30 soccer kicks to the head but still be in the fight. It takes a lot of volume and a lot of cardio to try to stop Ol' Ironhead. I am not quite sure a prime Roy could survive underneath Mark Kerr getting kneed in the head for 8 mins. Perhaps Roy could but I have seen Fujita shake off ridiculously powerful strikes time and time again. Especially knees to the head on the ground
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pretty good list. you definitely did your homework!
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some dudes were tough muthaz...
Maurice Smith was tough to KO, MMA or Kickboxing.
Ruas, in Brazil or outside, IIRC, was never really hurt in a fight (legit boxing credentials though...)
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Solid list guy.
I would put Lineker at #1 for BW though. The guy walks through bombs without flinching while Dom has been dropped by Faber.
The guy has a MW sized head on a BW frame
I would put Lineker at #1 for BW though. The guy walks through bombs without flinching while Dom has been dropped by Faber.
The guy has a MW sized head on a BW frame
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some guys in your list (Nick or Big Nog) actually have GOAT recovery, more than GOAT chin...
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They have both chin and recovery.
They also have GOAT cardio.
Put all those things together and that is why Nick and Nog are so damn hard to stop.
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I wouldn't put anderson on any big chin list. In his prime, he never took shots really.
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Mark Hunt's chin is great. However, not only has he been stopped much less often, I give Roy the edge because of how much better defense Hunt has. Hunt doesn't eat things as flush as Roy does. Roy walks into straights and uppercuts and gets caught by bombs with no head movement. Mark is actually a legit technical striker, so in the average fight he doesn't take the same kind of frequency. I don't think Hunt would have survived the beating that Stipe put on Nelson at 181, with something like 100 significant strikes to the head. Yes, Hunt made it to 5 rounds in his own fight with Stipe, but Hunt is a more legit defensive fighter and didn't get beat up in the same way.
Big Nog has a very good chin, but what made him so tough is recovery. He could get rocked and dropped, but he didn't quit. Bob actually knocked him out with the piledriver, but he was jolted back awake by the punches and went back into it. I'd put him in a general toughness list, but I'm not sure about pure chin. The GnP from Fedor wasn't really composed of knockout punches, so Nog's ability to survive was largely toughness, not some kind of freak chin. I'd actually put guys like Rothwell above him in a list of this format.
Fujita for sure belongs up there. What must be noted however, is that he fought smaller guys than Roy and his chin had a shorter life. Wand is a LHW and he stopped Fujita with punches. Roy has been tough his entire career up to this day.
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That doesn't mean he has a bad chin smh
