"glass chin". how stupid is this term.

I agree it is a ridiculously overused term.

 

Some people can take punches better than others. Gamboa is not one of those guys.

 

Gamboa got hit with some vicious shots

 

Deny it all you want, but glass jaws DO exist in boxing, and your hero Gamboa has one.:yep

When a guy visits the canvas as often as Gamboa does, it's a pretty good bet his jaw isn't quite too sturdy. And then when he gets KOd by a light puncher, well only deluded fanboys deny the obvious.:deal

 

Light puncher?

Gamboa is definitely chinny, but he also 1-fought stupid 2-leaves his chin stationary when throwing punches leaving himself open and 3-fought the biggest if not also the strongest lightweight out there IMO

 

Gamboa is a good fighter, but he was always chinny. If you look at past threads from this site years ago, most people predicted that he was a KO waiting to happen. It happened last night.

 

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Some boxers can't take as good a shot as others but it's boring to have thread after thread about it

 

Because unless they remove organs, I dont see gamboa getting back down to 126.

 

If you have never boxed or sparred then you dont know what its like to take a punch,glass chin is thrown around far too much,I have friends who are casual fans who call a fighter glass jawed if he has been knocked down more than twice in his career..

 

Glass chins do exist in boxing. You want an example of one: [url]http://bit.ly/1pDSkmz[/url]

 

Sorry but glass chins are real.

 

The term "glass chin" is fair enough...but I do think it is way way overused. Khan is one such fighter that often comes high up in the glass chin charts. Yet if you watch some of the shots he took of Maidana you wouldn't think that at all. Same with Lennox Lewis....he was accused often of having a glass chin. If a fighter gets KO'd or TKO'd or goes down occasionally then haters will cry "glass chin" "ko waiting to happen" but every fighter is capable of being KO'd.

Sometimes a fighter can simply hang their chin out and walk into a shot that they should've never let happen...and normally would've evaded. Shots that you don't see coming are always the ones that KO you. In a fight you could take many harder punches then finally get KO'd by a lesser punch you never saw coming or have simply been wore down by accumulation. Keep chipping away at someones chin with shots and like an axe on a tree trunk...eventually it will fall. Also fighters can get cold c0cked and be KO'd in the first round when otherwise they'd have been fine and have previously taken many better shots than what got them out of there.

So for me "glass chin" is fair enough - its simply an exaggerated figure of speech but I'd say its overused...and always by haters.