You Can't Train A Chin

I feel like people might care a little too much about chins and not as much as the "hit and not get hit" simplicity of the sweet science. if you're executing the sweet science against your opponent, guess what? you aren't getting hit. if you're doing that then the only way you're getting ko'ed is by a freak knockout occurrence, and how often do those happen? often, but not often in comparison to the one sided boxing clinic that the practitioner of the sweet science gives the other guy who has the ability to ko his opponent and that's it.

 

yea stick your chin out to some1 in the top 5 best hitters in your division to prove your chin has improved.

 

mm its called conditioning. Nobody is born with a great chin. The more you fight and take punches the more you'll get used to it.

 

The thing is everyone gets hit in boxing and a mean shot will land. Being chinny is limiting.

You missed the point. If a fighter doesn't get hit, no one will ever know what his chin is like. From what we have on Khan, his chin is horrible. Once Khan does get hit good, everyone will find out how much moving up in weight has helped his chin.

 

I don't believe you could train Amir Khan to have a granite chin, but I do believe you can improve your punch resistance to an extent. Overall strengthening helps to some extent, but when you think of the guys in history with iron chins, they tend to have a general mental toughness about them also. Think George Chuvalo, Muhammad Ali, Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, etc.. I believe a lot of people fold after a big shot because they're not mentally strong enough to tough it out.

 

You don't even want to know how many times I've heard this joke.

What the ****?

 

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This is basically what I believe. Good point about the mental toughness Marnoff.

 

Don't be ridiculous, I think Chin Han was trained excellent in acting and really fit the role of Lau in the Dark Knight.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1977856/

 

understandable.

 

Roy Jones' chin isn't as bad overall as people make it to be.


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IRwQADvvcY[/ame]



Except for the Del Valle kd(Which could've been called a slip, it's debatable), you can't really name a time where his chin failed him in his prime. He toke some flush shots by Hopkins & Toney but he was fine. After dropping all of that muscle after the Ruiz fight is when you really saw the lack of Jones' punch resistance. For Jermain, he gets stopped later in fights it's not like he doesn't take good shots before getting ko'd. I remember Abraham caught him flush one time with a right and though groogy, Jermain kind of shook it off. If he had a bad chin he would've gone down. With Judah, yes his chin gets put on blast but I don't think it was as bad as people make it. Probably below average but I remember he was taking good shots from Floyd & Cotto without going down.

 

atsch

I'm appauld at the stupidness and gullable people resident on ESB what an absolute disgrace, this is not even debatable you either have a chin or not, when all things rmain equal such as enough liquid in the body, no weight drain to stress the brain and body and a good mental psyche it wont and is not possible to improve.

 

proof yu can train a chin.....


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VjYprWST9A&feature=related[/ame]

 

I agree with you. RJ had a solid chin prior to the Tarver loss. But afterwards his punch resistance did decrease.

 

Man, that's fu*ken crazy. Fighting with bare fists with no vasoline. That guy's face was shredded. I bet a little vasoline would've reduced his injury significantly. Can you imagine having to fight a guy like Kimbo slice like that? I would have no chance. He would laugh at the flush shots i land on him. Even in that video, he was letting that other guy just hit him.

 

no you can't. you just have to wish that to santa.