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James Slater appraises the toughest fighters in boxing history and rate the top five greatest chins

Sherman Williams is the archetypal heavyweight nearly man. There’s excuses. There’s pride. There’s genuine hard luck. Best of all there’s lessons aplenty for the fighters he now guides through the hardest game. By Oliver Fennell LIKE many former fringe contenders, Sherman Williams has a lot of “what ifs”. What if the scores had been different in certain fights? What if he’d been given more notice for others? What if Evander Holyfield had answered the bell for the fourth round? The...

Lennox Lewis heard talk in 2000 that Michael Grant was boxing’s next great heavyweight. By Thomas Hauser THE mid-20th century gave birth to a new breed of athlete; men who were big, well-coordinated, and faster than men their size had been before. By the start of the new millennium, athletes had further honed their natural gifts and were even bigger than their predecessors. Two heavyweights personified this trend: Lennox Lewis and Michael Grant. When they met in the ring at Madison Square Gar...