Vitali Klitschko's chin is ovarated.

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  1. attaboi

    attaboi Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I didn't say his chin was bad. I said his chin was not amongst the best.
     
  2. Sputnik44

    Sputnik44 Active Member Full Member

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    You're a dope...it's among the best..he fought everyone that was available...your view and comments smell of straight troll
     
  3. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sanders pushed Vitali down with his right arm, not a knock down. You're going to bring up a kickboxing fight from 21 years ago where he got put down by a spinning heel kick(which has more power than a punch). Really?

    That's even worse than saying Tua has an overrated chin because he got KO'd by Savon in a little more than 10 secs in the amateurs, or Ali because he got dropped by Sonny Banks and Henry Cooper.
     
  4. derrick

    derrick 6ft4 215 bring it on Full Member

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    Vitali was a top fighter for sure. He could fight a full 12 rounds with no holding at all. He took Lewis's best shots and that is saying a lot. Vitali was the better Klitschko and it was not even close.
     
  5. bballchump11

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    :lol::patsch

    being heavier definitely helps your punch resistance as long as it doesn't make you completely out of shape.

    :lol::lol::lol: this is getting ridiculous now. Thanks for proving that his chin IS overrated
     
  6. Decker

    Decker Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Exactly.
    OP is trying to be a "clever" troll by not appearing too anti Vitali :roll:
    Very good or great can be debated... but anyway you look at it Vitali had a top chin/jaw :bart

    His younger brothers chin is in an average range, hardly "glass". If Wlad has a glass jaw then so do 90 pct of HWs... and as I posted in another wind up thread, Wilder's chin must be paper mache :dead

    And Chuvalo, as well as other HWs from earlier times, were fighting smaller HWs - mostly today's CWs to small HWs. No knock on Geroge C, he had a top chin in his era. Modern HWs are bigger and stronger.
     
  7. attaboi

    attaboi Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    :lol:
     
  8. Peril

    Peril The Scholar Full Member

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    I was going to ignore this but your facepalm smiley made me want to mock you a bit. I take it you're not familiar with basic concepts of biology and physiology?

    Being heavier does jack **** for punch resistance. It comes from a great multitude of factors, such as development of neck muscles, neurological specifics of the brain of the particular person, structure of the skull, thickness of the skull, reaction time etc, none of which are directly correlated to the weight of the individual (there are big guys with small heads and vice versa, tiny guys with huge overdeveloped neck muscles, etc).

    Case and point : Kelly Pavlik vs David Price

    tall white guys, one about 80 pounds heavier than the other, but the lighter guy had a better chin. The punch that Thompson knocked Price out with was a love tap, but Price's wired in a way that causes a hard reset from the slightest hits in the temple/side area.


    Gaining weight (muscle or fat, does not matter) will not make your punch resistance improve.
     
  9. Peril

    Peril The Scholar Full Member

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    Attaboi sounds butthurt to me ;)

    And of course, Vitali's chin is ATG. The uppercut he took from Lewis would have decapitated a lesser man, and I am fairly certain that a 250 lb mountain of a man with a lifetime of boxing training, undisputed world champ Lennox Lewis, knew how to punch.
     
  10. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    There is nothing ridiculous about that statement. I've never seen a punch connect so hard in any fight. It would have surely dropped just about every HW who ever lived and Vitali took the shot.
     
  11. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If you don't believe me watch the film. That is the reason it wasn't ruled a knockdown. You clearly have some sort of anti Klitschko bias.

    OP you are a complete joke. You can't even spell the title of your shitty thread properly.
     
  12. attaboi

    attaboi Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Not this **** again. Enough with this bigger and stronger garbage. Former 168 pounder Chris Byrd had better chin than most heavyweights today. Tomasz Adamek have transitioned into the heavyweight division quite successful. Former middleweight James Toney is yet to be knocked out by these out of shape heavyweights you claim to be bigger and better.

    Today's heavyweights are not better because they fatter. There is a reason why they're huffing and puffing after four rounds.
     
  13. Peril

    Peril The Scholar Full Member

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    oh man you're making this too easy! I thought you understood boxing (a little bit) but you're just giving yourself away with every post!

    a) Byrd was not 168 lbs when he fought top heavies ;) As a human being matures, his bones get heavier, his muscles get stronger and his balance improves from years of exercise. All those helped improve Byrd's punch resistance but what really was a game changer for him, was the incredible speed difference between him and his opponents. He never got hit clean until he fought a nearly equally fast heavyweight in Wlad, and a very fast heavyweight in Povetkin, both fights ending in a one sided beating. Ability to see the punch takes most of the danger out of it, as you have time to flex your neck muscles, slightly turn your head, and the adrenaline shot from the upcoming pain gives you the extra edge you need. Knockouts are usually what happens when a boxer DOES NOT SEE THE PUNCH COMING, or it is an incredibly powerful, perfectly aimed shot (Marquez-Pac).

    That is why smaller faster heavies had such success in the current heavyweight division: Most of these guys are so horribly out of shape, they simply look like they are in slow motion to the much faster cruiserweights that are in great shape, making all the dangerous punches miss and the light ones get negated via head movement/block/shoulders defence.

    Today's heavyweights hit harder, are physically stronger, and have better peds than those in the past. The problem is the america-centric mentality of yours, that focuses solely on the american (born or adopted) heavyweight fat ****s that plod on the ring and look like they are dying after the first round. (Solis, Areolla, Peter, Brown, etc)
     
  14. attaboi

    attaboi Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    The only one butthurt is you.:lol: This dude went 6 rounds with one great puncher and you fan boys a jizzing all over yourself over it. Ray Mercer and Zeljko Mavrovic ate those Lewis like breakfast and you hardly hear them being mentioned amongst the best chin. Had Vitali fought 2 more Lennox Lewis type of opponents in his career we won't be having this conversation.
     
  15. Peril

    Peril The Scholar Full Member

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    There were no more Lennox Lewis out there, there is only one LION. However, there was Herby Hyde, Corrie Sanders, Kirk Johnson, Sam Peter, Chris Areolla, all of those guys can bang.

    and no one is jizzing anywhere, you're coming off pretty sad right now.