Gennady Golovkins chin?

Watch the brook fight again, he was definately holding a few times after Brook put a few on him, seriously watch it again and look closely at GGG and how his legs wobbled and he grabs Brook.

As one has already said he is a KO waiting to happen.

 

He's been in with enough guys who can punch to know his chin is granite...He's been in with Stevens Lemieux and then guys who maybe dont have world level power but can still dig a bit like Rubio or Macklin etc i do think Brook got his attention in the 2nd round but nothing to much to worry about.

Its part of the reason why he's so successful people can't back him off so he's just pressuring you all the time with that power to go with it....The thing is he's not young and he takes a lot of punches in a fight. His head movement is limited and he can be hit. If he fights Canelo it could be interesting although i favour GGG at the moment.

Jacobs is his next fight and that's another guy with a decent punch so if he wins and doesn't get hurt not sure how anybody doesn't think his chin is A class for now

 

Decent chin so far but was hurt against brook who is a 147lber...... he's a ko waiting to happen the older and slower he gets unfortunately, this is what Golden Boy is waiting for with Canelo

 

its either Carbyne or Graphene.

 

He's a human being. He can be hurt. Thing is, we just haven't seen anyone do this so far...

 

All I would add, however, is we haven't yet seen GG display the all-round qualities of a granite chin. This quality is two-fold. For the first criteria he passes with flying colours, almost like no boxer I have ever seen (Oliver McCall gets close and that was at HW) - namely the ability to take hard shots and walk through them. The second criteria is untested and in many ways is the most significant part of the equation; being hurt or even dropped but getting up like the pain passed in a millisecond.

As an example of this I would cite Froch vs Groves 1. Carl was, I think, unconscious at the moment the shot landed and was floored (see comedy thread on this term). By the time he hit the canvas he had come round and then stood up using his calf muscles alone. No grabbing the robes and scrambling up for The Cobra. In the following 40 secs or so, he took two further hard right hands and didn't wobble. And, of course, he went on to win.

Now GG's chin might be so stellar he never has to experience this side of chin-checking. But it would be intriguing to find out how he would respond to having his brain scrambled. It might take a trip to LHW to find this out, and it's unlikely he will campaign up there.

 

I'd say really good, it's passed every test thus far without any issues.

RE one of the other posts up, I've watched the Brook fight numerous times and I was there...I saw no wobble. Him holding doesn't mean he was hurt either, it just stops the flurry. If he just let himself get hit instead we'd have just heard how bad his defence is again. Wobbled, would be what Brook was in the first round.

 

Theres a bit in the 2nd round where Brook landed a couple of uppercuts and then put something else together and GGG head snapped back a bit haven't really seen that happen with him. I don't think he was wobbled but it was big shot even if Brook isnt a natural at the weight.

 

I think it is breakable, I think Eubank Jr will seriously test that chin if his own chin holds up.But Brook never hurt him, Golovkin himself said he did not felt his punches.

 

It better be good seeing how much he loves to block punches with his face. Brook was rocking him with those uppercuts, if that was a legit MW hitting him with those shots it might well have been lights out.

 

I have no idea where this myth that Jr is a power puncher has come from

 

me neither......

Eubanks was stunned by spike and rocked by Blackwell and had to run across the ring for a breather. He's if anything a volume puncher yeah hes spiteful but he's not sparking guys clean out. He's getting wrecked by GGG. He's yet to have a win above british level.

 

Pure rubbish from uppercut fartist

 

He's one of the biggest balloons in boxing right now. He's never dropped someone at contender level, not once.

 

He too open to shots with his Mexican style approach,bad idea.