What's hareder to take a punch to the head or chin?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by debaser, Dec 29, 2008.


  1. debaser

    debaser Active Member Full Member

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    There are always a lot of threads on here about fighters having glass jaws but what about fighters who can take punches to the chin but not to the head? I think I'm right in saying that in all four knockdowns calzaghe has suffered all have been punches to the head not the chin, any other fighters out there with a similar story? I think toney may be another.

    I would have thought a punch landed flush on the chin would cause more damage then a blow to the head or does this depend on the fighter?
     
  2. heidegger

    heidegger Guest

    Chin is the weak spot.
     
  3. DINAMITA

    DINAMITA Guest

    Body is harder than both IMO. A perfect bodyshot cripples ANYONE - not always the case for a head or chin shot.

    But to the threadstarter: China Chin and Glass Jaw aren't terms which apply specifically to punches to the chin and jaw, they just mean a guy's ability to absorb/take punches to the head/face. If someone got KO'd by a right jab to the nose, someone couldn't then say he doesn't have a weak chin because he wasn't hit on the chin or that he doesn't have a Glass Jaw because he wasn't hit on the jaw.
     
  4. maciek4

    maciek4 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    You would never see someone KO Roy Jones, Shane Mosley or Floyd Mayweather with a body shot.
     
  5. DINAMITA

    DINAMITA Guest

    That's because they know how to defend. A world-class bodypuncher can KO anyone though, if he catches them perfectly. Mayweather was badly hurt to the body by Castillo, a broke rib if I recall correctly. Imagine he had been in with Chavez??
     
  6. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    Temple shots are pretty hard to take.

    Amir Khan was decked by little more than a slap by Michael Gomez to the temple. Yet he absorbed some pretty tasty work to the body - despite being clueless on the inside.
     
  7. cityofgod

    cityofgod Worcester warrior Full Member

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    Generally a head shot does not hurt - it just scrambles your legs a little.

    Body shots do hurt though.

    Whenever you see a body shot stoppage, you can see the pain on their screwed up faces.

    Yet often a head-shot stoppage usually has the defeated boxer complaining he is fine to the ref.
     
  8. debaser

    debaser Active Member Full Member

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    Doesn't your conditioning determine how well you can take body shots?
     
  9. Polymath

    Polymath Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Oh really?

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  10. DINAMITA

    DINAMITA Guest

    :lol: OK, I was wrong!!
     
  11. dhenzrae

    dhenzrae A Proud Noypi Full Member

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    :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    even a liver shot won't hurt him
     
  12. PATRICKBOXING

    PATRICKBOXING Member Full Member

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    no one can take a liver shot
     
  13. TFFP

    TFFP The Eskimo

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    In my experience getting hit on the head or even the chin is worse in the morning than live! :lol:

    Bodyshots just plain hurt.
     
  14. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    It depends. A shot on the temple can hurt anyone even if they have an Iron Chin.

    Having a Glass Jaw is perhaps the most embarrassing thing in Boxing.
     
  15. Hatesrats

    Hatesrats "I'm NOT Suprised..." Full Member

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    A solid blow is a
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    blow!
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