Why does size matter?

So I guess in your mind its just a pure coincidence that a disproportionate number of the heavyweights known for having the best chins were big men?

 

So if we conducted a crazy experiment where we took one randomized group of 190-lbers and another group of 250-lbers, threw them in the ring with heavyweights, and had them take the exact same punches to the jaw, you would expect both groups to fare equally well?

And if the 60 pound gap between 190 and 250lbs is irrelevant, I assume you would feel the same way about the much lesser gap between 168 and 190?

 

You may have achieved new levels of stupidity.

 

You are engaging a moron. He is going to next accuse of you of changing what he is saying. His premise at the core is that Abe Simon was pretty big.

 

Why stop at 190? If nothing about weight increases chin strength, then theoretically a featherweight could take the same shot as a superheavyweight.

Which is bollocks, as even you can see.

 

Wlad is an ATG and Fury just beat him, so he's clearly not that shabby either. Wilder I can take or leave, though he clearly possesses a number of dangerous tools. Joshua is a bit of an unknown but anyone who gets in the ring with him has to contend with his phenomenal physical assets, so in that respect he's a legitimate superheavy.

Baer, Simon and the rest were all stiffs. Awful on film and clearly just malcoordinated oafs. It's no challenge at all to beat them.

 

I don't think anyone has said the above in this entire thread. Has that been the argument going on in your head all this time?

Do you not see how this point actually weakens your overall argument? If size didn't have at least some correlation to punch resistance then why weren't these men cold KOed by their smaller opponents? Why did they instead suffer prolonged beatings with ref involvement in many cases halting the contests?

Being outclassed is a matter of skill, and clearly Simon, Willard and co possessed very little of it.

 

What's peoples opinions of bringing in a Super Heavyweight division?

 

if a small man hits a big man in the right place, he can ko him. Punch resistance in the sense of taking the punch flatout would be the same.

However in an actual fight, a hundred other factors come into play, being taller, wrestling, range.Its not the actual increase in weight which yields the punch resistance.

If Amir Khan eats 100 pies and reaches 300lbs, his chin remains the same. He'd make one hell of a sumo wrestler though.

 

Has there been any scientific study on what makes some take punches better than others?