Gamboa goes forward without any cautious. But did he have other chanses. He was too small for bigger counter puncher. Why didnt they put him against somebody at 126u after lay off
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.
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..
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.