can you lose your chin?

I doubt it after being knocked down once, i think it takes a few good knockouts where you can't get up for your chin to deteriorate at all, well that's the impression i get from pro fighters anyways.

But to the rest of your post, no i have not been knocked down yet

 

It will all be mental if you have boxed long enough you will have been dropped or hurt.

 

You can absolutely lose your chin. As you get older and after you get knocked out it seems to be easier. If you follow MMA, look at Chuck Liddell and Mark Hunt as perfect examples. I doubt one knockdown and a concussion is going to do it though.

I've never been down in boxing and only stunned twice and neither time was bad. I did get knocked out playing football a year or two before I started boxing. My chin is solid.

 

I didnt bther to read all that but it is all but physically impossible to punch someone's chin off. Also, in amateur contests the chin strap woukd keep the chin from actually falling off, and even if it did, SOMEONE WOULD VERY LIKELY FIND IT. It'S not like a contact lense or something.

 

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She must have taken one hell of a shot.

 

The trauma you receive may become more apparent at times when it did not before.

Older fighters will be more traumatised and this will affect "chin".

There are plenty of actual examples.

 

Absolutely. Your brain is an organ. One of the organs least able to heal. The more damage it eats the more your "chin" weakens.

IMHO, a "weakening chin" is the beginning, "shot" is really your brain being damaged, but functional. Once you stop fighting "punch drunk" is just the progression of the damage. They are all one in the same.

 

I've seen examples where boxers will lose their will to take punishment but I've never seen someone magically lose their punch resistance overnight.

 

Listen, lots of great fighters get dropped in fights and even in sparring. Ali got dropped and nearly knocked out by Henry Cooper and years later was able to withstand hellish shots by Frazier, Norton, Foreman and Shavers. If you begin to question your chin just because of this incident you will destroy yourself. It happened, it happens, move forward. No big deal.

 

True. The key is to stay mentally strong, and give it plenty of recovery time between concussions. Even then there is no guanratee.

Being in shape and having guts can help too.

 

yes

 

I think there has been some neurological research that has said after one knock out, you become much more suseptable to it happening again.

Its only anecdotal, but I think if you look at Ricky Hatton and Jermaine Taylor this rings true.