I don't think any of these new heavyweights have bad chins

I'd say Whyte has a pretty good chin. He took a lot of big shots in there before succombing in the 7th round against Joshua, who is a legit HW puncher.

 

Whyte has granite chin to survive the first round.

 

Exactly:thumbsup. 2 near 300 pound men are throwing punches as hard as they can at each other and that's is considered glass jaw if one gets knocked out. Dumb computer nerds at won't fight to save their mothers life.

 

I agree guys. I think its actually really offensive to use the term "bad chin" or "glass jaw". I think the correct term that isn't offensive is "Sensitive Mandible". That way the fighters feelings won't get hurt when he comes on this website. Many boxers such as Andre Ward are afraid to box now because they know when their chin gets exposed people will call them mean things on twitter.

 

The hypocrisy from some posters is astonishing. A modern, white, European fighter gets dropped once and the Americans all start crying "glass jaw".

Mike Tyson gets stopped 5 times in his career and these same Americans claim he's got an Iron Jaw. It's laughable really.

 

Wilder has an atrocious glass jaw

 

Some fighters do have glass jaws.

Getting dropped by a 700 lbs overweight Dustin Nicholls and a taxi driver in Harold Scornier = glass jaw.

 

This thread is the worst example of glass jaw denial I've seen around here in a while. Yet another version of the unprovable "that punch woulda KOd anybody" nonsense.

Fact is, if somebody gets wobbled badly or hits the canvas, generally speaking, they don't have the sturdiest set of whiskers. And if this happens more than one, it's pretty clear that they have a glass jaw.

Glass jaws exist in boxing, fanboys. Accept it.

 

This is one of the silliest comments I ever seen. Based on this Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Joe Frazier for starters all had chin of glass based on your definition.

 

There are exceptions, and Ali certainly is one. Foreman only hit the canvas once. Tyson's chin, while solid, is somewhat overrated, and Joe Frazier, while his chin wasn't the glassiest, it certainly wasn't the sturdiest either.

Most fighters' have chins that are shaky, to one degree or another. The fighter with a truly solid chin is a rare commodity. Ali is one. Foreman is another.

 

90% of heavy weights have a bad chin. Heavyweight is all about the recovery skills. Everyone can hurt everyone. Bar that extremely rare few.
I have seen nearly every heavyweight fighting today that I can think of hurt at some stage.
Name the heavyweights fighting today that don't have a bad chin?

I can't remember if I've seen Jennings hurt?

 

No he wasn't anything special if you compares him to the modern fighters.

Recommended reading: heavyweightblog dot com.

 

Ummmm. Yes. Worse tHan atrocious

 

So if you get dropped twice then you have a glass jaw? This typifies the black and white nature of this board. Everything is one extreme or the other. Boxing, like life, is many shades of grey with the extremes being the minority.

Also, just ranking chins on number of KOs/KDs isn't always the most accurate way. How often a fighter gets hit, where the punch landed, if the recipient is moving away or onto the punch, stanima, positioning of feet when shot lands, recovery time, power of boxer who threw the punch and if the guy sees the shot coming all need to be taken into account as they all play a part.