It's still not the greatest excuse when the punch is delivered by a former super middleweight that has a 30% KO record. None of his punches are supposed to bother a fully fledged cruiser, at the time. James Toney always got caught on the side and back of the head throughout his career when he was side on, using his shoulder to cover his chin.
he never took a beating from Thompson, he only took a few shots, one dropped him and another ****ed him up so the corner threw the towel in to save him from potentially getting badly hurt.
Icemax explained this in depth the other day with using Khan as an example. He said weight draining yourself means you have less fluid around your brain and, as such, your punch resistance is significantly hindered. Moving up in weight can improve it as you can have more 'brain-juice' (I believe that's what Doctors refer to it as) protecting your brain. I have no idea whether this is correct, though. He seemed to know what he was on about at the time and it seems plausible:good. I'm with Icemax. Like LHL said, there's a difference between taking a beating and being KO'd.
Haye has probably the worst chin in BBritish boxing at the moment. Even a wiff of the one decent Enzo punch had him sniffing fingers for a few seconds. Hopefully he keeps his success up cos us Brits love a plucky but dangerously limited underdog when he comes to fighting the elite uhm two heravyweights.
I know what you mean he was hurt bad and he was going to get stopped but for some reason this is the main point people put across for him being chinny. The fight against the south african is better evidence of him having a shaky chin against a little known fighter who was out of his division.
theres the story about him getting proper sparked out agaisnt someone he was supposed to beat easialy and Hayes dad made sure David went out and saw his mates after the fight. anyone heard about the ruck he had with Froch in the ams?