Iron and Glass chins in the UFC

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  1. Roger Federer

    Roger Federer Active Member Full Member

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    Iron

    Chris Weidman
    Jose Aldo
    Frankie Edgar
    Donald Cerrone
    Nick Diaz
    Diego Sanchez
    BJ Penn
    Johny Hendricks
    Robbie Lawler
    Daniel Cormier
    Jon Jones
    Jr Dos Santos
    Roy Nelson
    Dan Henderson(formerly)
    Mark Hunt(formerly)
    Brian Ebersole

    Glass

    Anderson Silva
    Alistair Overeem
    Stefan Struve
    Andrei Arlovski
    Mirko Crocop
    Gray Maynard
    Cain Velaquez
    Travis Browne
    Anthony Perosh
    Ryan Bader
    Josh Koscheck
    Brendan Schaub
    Bigfoot Silva
     
  2. WildersGlassJaw

    WildersGlassJaw Active Member Full Member

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    What about Chuck Liddell? Didn't he have a glass jaw too?
     
  3. Roger Federer

    Roger Federer Active Member Full Member

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    Towards the end of his career yes but he's been out of the sport for several years so I didn't include him.
     
  4. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    I thought Boetsch had a good chin now I'm not sure that all that it's "cracked" up to be(pun intended) after Hendo laid him out in 30 seconds flat. It's definitely not glass at least not by MMA standards, but it's not iron.

    Where's Mousasi btw? His chin is great, never seen him seriously hurt ever.
     
  5. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Good list

    Silva is a weird one. His chin was granite, then was KOd by a grazing little jab

    Still dont understand that
     
  6. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    His chin was never granite. When he got hit, he hit the deck.
     
  7. pablinov

    pablinov Boxing Addict Full Member

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    nice list. Chris Leben had a notorious iron chin when he was in his prime, and also Clay Guida had/has a solid chin.
     
  8. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    Fujita had a crazy chin, as did prime Big Nog. Excellent chin and insane recuperative ability. That one Japanese guy who ate bomb, after bomb from Gary Goodridge in Pride, what was his name again? He had an insane chin, and I think he was just some pro-wrestling crossover or a really old judoka or something. Insane.
     
  9. pablinov

    pablinov Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Big Nog def. had a chin on him, I remember him eating bombs from Fedor and nothing.
     
  10. MrFoFody

    MrFoFody Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Don't be so quick to judge the guy . Anyone who Hendo cleanly detonates on is normally sent crumpling to the floor, wrecked.
     
  11. The Akbar One

    The Akbar One Obsessed with Boxing banned Full Member

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    It was the angle of the punch, along with him not expecting it to land. If you recall, Weidman landed harder flush, straight punches to the face, when Silva was giving him free shots. The punch that ended Silva's legend was a left hook landing across the jaw from the side.
     
  12. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Anthony Pettis has a pretty solid mandible
     
  13. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    A lot of those japanese guys in Pride were really tough. I remember Crocop fighting one of them and just unloading everything in the ****nal and the guy just wouldn't go. He nearly gassed out just from beating up on the dude.
     
  14. Cross of Iron

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    Stephen Thompson reduced Hendricks jaw to average . A guy with an iron chin does not get KO'd in the first round .
     
  15. yesihavearm2

    yesihavearm2 ESB Chinchecker Full Member

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    Werdum and Rockhold need to be added to Glass, especially Werdum.