(Dempsey) Heavyweights That Never Cut (Dempsey)

Maybe so, i just think it's pretty hard to tell beforehand whether a certain boxer is prone to cuts or not, based on his face type.

In some cases it is pretty obvious, like Henry Cooper:

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But Wepner's face:

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Does not imply cut susceptibility to me. Of course he got tagged a lot more than better boxers, but even among journeymen he was known as a bleeder.


What about Quarry?

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Vitali landed more punches. I think at best (for Lewis) they were evenly matched, that night. Lewis wasn't what he used to be. Klitschko won more rounds and landed more, but Lewis landed the harder punches. Lewis could take it, Vitali ('s skin) couldn't. Anyway, that's just one example. Byrd got cut badly against W.Klitschko. It goes both ways and a lot has to do with ability as you said.

 

I think Holy cut a bit. Holmes cut him. Ali was only cut once ( vs B. Foster )

 

Bloody sweaties ,allways looking for a row!

 

You really think lewis outclased vtali by that much,id say without the cuts that could have easily gone to the big ukranian guy,though i heard lewis did not train to good for this one.

 

Fair enough Kurgan.

Now for the big test! Do you expect Alexander Povetkin to be susceptible to cuts?

He had a small cut in his fight against Byrd, i think from a headbutt. Confirming your earlier statement of Byrd probably not capitalising on a Klitschko cut if there was one, Byrd indeed did very little with it for the other 6 rounds after.

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Fair enough at least on here we are far nicer about that fight,the general forum was a joke was it not when talking about who would have won if he had not cut.
Was a great fight though,and maybe in a way,the last really decent HW fight,that was all action and lived up to its hype.:good

 

The guys who tend to cut are the fighters with extra calcium deposits on their brows or cheek bones.

Basically, the smoother and less angular the forehead is above the eye region, and less prominent the cheekbones are below the eye region, the less likely they are to cut.

Cuts are caused when the skin pinched against the bones of the face. Skin losses it’s elastically as fighters’ age as well. I don’t think Povetkin will have problems with cuts, though his style of intelligent and aggressive swarming will put him in danger of getting head butted from shorter fighters.