Michael Conlan Has A Glass Jaw

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  1. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    Destroyed by featherfisted Jordan Gill. Can there be ANY doubt that Conlan is packing some ultra-fragile china in that shaky mandible???
     
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  2. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    Waterford Crystal.
     
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  3. piprules

    piprules Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It’s like he’s fallen off a cliff
     
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  4. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Boxing is not the sport for you if you can't take a pop on the whiskers
     
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  5. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    Absolutely! I've been saying this for years, and Conlan proves it.

    Chin strength matters - I would argue it is virtually essential to succeed at the top echelons of the sport.

    There are very few examples of fighters with shaky mandibles doing well at the top levels of the pro game!
     
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  6. vast

    vast Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And water is wet
     
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  7. Serge

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    It really does and is

    I just cannot respect glass-jawed fighters at all and I don't want them infesting and embarrassing our sport any longer

    I don't want them to be involved in the sport in any capacity whatsoever. It's like having arsonists working for the fire service :facepalm:
     
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  8. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'd argue he just wasn't that great to begin with imo
     
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  9. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    Getting violently KTFO by Luis Alberto Lopez, who's also a bit of a featherfist should've been a tip off, which is precisely why I picked Gill to get the stoppage.:D
     
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  10. Zakman

    Zakman ESB's Chinchecker Full Member

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    I would actually argue with this. Think about it, without glass jawed fighters we wouldn't get to see most of the spectacular KOs that make this such an exciting sport.

    A good-chinned fighter will take shots and keep coming. Maybe he'll taste canvas briefly or get stopped while standing, but the glass jawed fighter will get pasted to the mat, out cold. Too bad refs rob us of this,like they did today with Conlan.
     
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  11. ArseBandit

    ArseBandit Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Khan level glass
     
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  12. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    You make a very good point but the problem is as much as I love a spectacular knockout, and I enjoy them as much as anyone, my pathological hatred for glass-jawed fighters is so intense that I'd rather never see another KO again if it meant we could rid the sport of these freaks once and for all.

    Yes, maybe that's the solution - a sport full of iron-chinned fighters or at least ones with above average punch resistance and more sadistic refs.
     
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  13. Sheikh

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    Horrible stoppage
     
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  14. Themessiah

    Themessiah El Jefe Full Member

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    His chin isn’t the best, but he keeps dipping his head into punches which doesn’t help. That style only works in the amateurs
     
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  15. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    Yea, Duran really had a glass jaw. So did Barrera, Pacquiao, Cotto, DLH, Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Louis, Lewis, Tyson, etc. Sir, it's professional boxing. These guys punch hard. I don't care how good your chin is, if you take repeated punches to your own goddamn skull, you will get stopped. Put your hands up or get stopped.
     
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