{"id":560575,"date":"2026-05-01T13:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:12:07","slug":"tyson-fury-names-the-heavyweight-with-the-greatest-chin-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560575\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury names the heavyweight with the greatest chin of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed for his powers of recovery, Tyson Fury<\/a> is yet to be stopped in his 38-bout career despite being knocked down eight times, and therefore he is perhaps better placed than most to offer his thoughts on which heavyweight has the best chin ever.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 was first dropped by Neven Pajkic back in 2011, before bouncing back and halting the Bosnian-born operator in round three of the contest.<\/p>\n

18 months later, Fury was floored by former cruiserweight world champion Steve Cunningham in what was his U.S. debut, but again, he went on to win by seventh-round stoppage.<\/p>\n

His next four knockdowns also came stateside, each coming in a fabled trilogy with Deontay Wilder<\/a>, in their iconic first and third fights which proved the resilience of Britain\u2019s now two-time world champion.<\/p>\n

A shocking slip to Francis Ngannou came next for the towering champion, taking his eye off the ball in a supposed mismatch and escaping with a split-decision win.<\/p>\n

Then, he was on the wrong side of a split-decision against Oleksandr Usyk<\/a>, after being given a standing eight count in round nine of a first career defeat, when bidding for the undisputed throne.<\/p>\n

Although, despite never being stopped himself, Fury told The Daily Mail<\/a> that he believes Oliver McCall to have the most impressive chin of all time.<\/p>\n

Technically, McCall has suffered a knockout defeat, but that came due to a bizarre breakdown in his rematch with Lennox Lewis<\/a>, rather than because of a shot that could daze \u2018The Atomic Bull\u2019.<\/p>\n

At the age of 61 years old, McCall remarkably remains active in the sport, boasting a record of 61-14-1.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famed for his powers of recovery, Tyson Fury is yet to be stopped in his 38-bout career despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}