British Chins: The Great Debate

The more upright classic 'British style', leads to more 'accidents'.

But with a few freaks on both extremes, I think the ability to take single shots is over thought.

Providing you are not one of the individuals that has a shocker of a chin seemingly 'naturally', and you train properly, then you should be OK in punch resistance.

Perhaps because there does seem to of been more quality training in the USA than the UK in the last Century; the lack of top level conditioning rather than just having a 'glass jaw', showed up more in the UK fighters.

 

buchanan and eubank had legendary great chins and we all know froch has an iron jaw. scott harrison had a great chin, im not sure if wayne mcCuloch was northern irland or not but he had a phenominal chin! we do have a few glass jawed mo fo's in our boxing history but what nation doesnt. its just being highlighted right now by enzo mac and khan.

 

Our high profile boxers aren't tested as much as the other well known 'boxing' countries the 'levels' are different, our 'glass jaws' just get exposed on the world stage so it gets highlighted more.

 

I think its overly obsessed about by a bunch of homesick abortions in the general forum.

 

Joe Calzaghe had the perfect chin.

(i) Ability to take long sustained punishment with any real effects showing

(ii) Defense mechanism - suspectable to occasionaly flash knockdowns (to espace real damage which migth follow from subsequent shots)

(iii) Fast recovery time from any knockdowns



Joe Calzaghe's chin was more practical than that of an Oliver McCall.

 

Mo Wilsons chin shits all over those guys chins.

 

Wot TBooze said!:good

 

Some people just can't take a punch, don't matter where your from, it's nothing to do physically, its genetically I believe, you can do certain things like strengthen your legs or put a bit of muscle round your neck but It wont change the fact some people just don't hold a shot well.

 

I don't understand how someone like Margarito can take such huge shots and not even wobble a bit? It took about 10 bombs from Mosley after 9 rouunds of murder to put him on the floor, and he got back up.

Look what one did to Mayweather.

 

There's also guys who had great chins but never won world titles and would be unknown outside of their home country. For us, a guy like Henry Warton is a prime example. Incredible chin, but never won a world title.

 

Look at khan as an example, had he been in America the chances are he would have been matched tougher early in his career and possibly not made it to world level. Sometimes we push guys with weakness because we want them to be the truth and they just aren't.

Americans do get better training too, that's just a fact, the classic "British styl" has been found wanting time and time again yet many British trainers are unable to think outside the box, and if they do they create a new style with deficiencies like the ingles.

The best two trainers we have are Robert mcracken and Adam booth because they have given their fighters training and styles that have maximised their physical abilities.

I wonder how good guys like Naz could have been with a world class trainer from the early days, and without being fed until their egos burst by the British hype machine.

This is why I hope our olympians go to America, better training, harder upbringing to steel them when they reach the top, and no silly hype from the press making them overrate their own abilities

 

Tbf I don't think the upright 'British' style is quite as prevalent as it was before.

 

Just cant see any of them turning down the big money and easy route that will be offered to them here in the uk. Especially someone like big brother ogogo.

Would love to see american trainers, come this way to address the denfense problems that a lot of the top british fights seem to have