Can chins be toughened?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Inspector, Nov 8, 2015.


  1. Inspector

    Inspector Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Or are you stuck with whatever grade of glass/granite you have? Amir King Khan has been hit with a fair few bombs since the Garcia fight and walked through them. Is this a chin becoming toughened before our very eyes? Does such a thing exist?
     
  2. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    Putting on weight helps a LITTLE bit, not being drained appears to have an effect on chin as your entire body is weakened. As the saying goes, you can't train chin.... Things like surviving while hurt can improve with experience, but other than that not really.
     
  3. cippi

    cippi Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Fight a healthy weight if ur not
     
  4. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    No but like a tough steak they can be tenderized.
     
  5. Jake LaMotta

    Jake LaMotta Lights Out Full Member

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  6. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Well Ward better be doubling down on the HGH if he plans on facing Kovalev.:hey
     
  7. Danebrogen

    Danebrogen Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It can improve to a certain degree yes. Look at David Tua, dropped in the amateurs, never stopped in pro's.
     
  8. Jake LaMotta

    Jake LaMotta Lights Out Full Member

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    Ward has a great chin. Not like Kovalev who got knocked down by a pillow puncher and KO'd with head gear.
     
  9. latineg

    latineg user of dude wipes Full Member

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    Not too much, to some degree I became a better boxer after I had first got tagged hard because after I had got hit hard I came back with a "plan" on how to try to react "if" and when I did get hit the next time. Thus it might have looked like my chin got better as I kept boxing but I think my chin was always the same but my game plan of trying to remain "calmer" and make safety first decisions right after I got tagged was the only part of how my chin ever got "better"

    Of course after I got knocked out a few times it started getting worse.
     
  10. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh! Full Member

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    Well.... He was still basically a kid not fully grown into his frame, and it wasn't just anyone that did it... It was Felix ****ing Savon.
     
  11. Noon Saibot

    Noon Saibot Active Member Full Member

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    If you strengthen your neck muscles it helps some.Bit once Ur chin starts to go there isn't anything u can do about it
     
  12. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    I think having a sturdy base certainly helps. You don't tend to see fighters with stocky legs getting bowled over like some of their top heavy, chicken legged contemporaries.
     
  13. Inspector

    Inspector Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Why does nobody ever get accused of having a glass temple?
     
  14. BoJangles

    BoJangles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    :hey

    Super Glue does the trick!!

    :yep
     
  15. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Wilder accused Scott of having one.:lol: