Why don't more fighters get punched in the Adam's Apple?

[brocktonblockbust]

I know youre supposed to keep your chin down but so many times fighters have their headds up, etc, you'd think they'd be getting whacked in the throat more often, I dont think I ever saw a fighter get hit in the Apple in the past 30 years. God that must be dangerous, even fatal.

[ruthless rocco]

i've wondered that as well...

[brocktonblockbust]

i mean if an uppercut just falls short or if the opponent leans into it by accident---SMASH!!!! not to mention straight right hands or wild hooks that somehow crack right onto the front of the neck. Imagine getting hit by Earnie Shavers right on the throat.

[ruthless rocco]

true... and yet neither of us has ever seen it happen.
and no one one this site wants to comment on it.

[brocktonblockbust]

I think they may have run out to the store and bought some larynx guards.

[Spicoli]

This one always springs to mind. Coles fat ass bouncing him off ropes didn't help either. Very end of the 7th. Hernandez could have taken belt on DQ but he fought on. RIP Champion.

[brocktonblockbust]

God that must hurt. I didnt find the punches to be THAT much after the bell, in fact he was already spinning his body to throw the hook as the bell rang and the right just followed, dont think it was intentional at all. shoulda taken the DQ for sure though.

[0james0]

The size of the gloves also probably plays into it, the neck is quite small in comparison and surrounded by stuff to deflect a full blooded shot, so many that would be heading that way probably clip the chin or shoulder first.

[FinitoElDinamita]

The size of the gloves also probably plays into it, the neck is quite small in comparison and surrounded by stuff to deflect a full blooded shot, so many that would be heading that way probably clip the chin or shoulder first.

Correct answer..

I kinda wondered about this too sometimes.. haha Brock always comes up with the weirdest things.. dude knows how to think outside the box.. I like his style.

Imagine getting clocked with a straight right to the adam's apple.. that's some scary shit.

[brocktonblockbust]

The size of the gloves also probably plays into it, the neck is quite small in comparison and surrounded by stuff to deflect a full blooded shot, so many that would be heading that way probably clip the chin or shoulder first.

Correct answer..

I kinda wondered about this too sometimes.. haha Brock always comes up with the weirdest things.. dude knows how to think outside the box.. I like his style.

Imagine getting clocked with a straight right to the adam's apple.. that's some scary shit.

Hey thanks man! Its nice to know some people understand where Im coming from. Outside the box, you hit it right n the head Dinamita! No place I'd rather be. Funny how guys like Fenster get me all wrong and just tell me I'm an idiot or that my questions are senseless. Those type of guys are way, WAY INSIDE THE BOX!

[Boxerharvey]

I kicked someone in the adams apple once in sparring (im a kickboxer by the way) and the guy I was sparring made the loudest screaming noise I have ever heard and was choking holding his throat for over a minute, I shit myself and though I had killed him or something. It took him a good 10 mins to get his breath back properly.

[greynotsoold]

Ken Norton hit Duane Bobick (or maybe Jerry Quarry) in the throat. My father said that Fritzie Zivic had a very raspy voice that he (Zivic) attributed to being hit in the throat. I think it doesn't happen often because nobody wants it done to them.

[brocktonblockbust]

this shit is even too painful to visualize, let alone actually having it happen.

[RohanKnight]

the apex of the chin runs exactly across the apple when the head is lowered, shielding it from a head on strike.

I've always wondered why we have an exposed neck at all, surely its an evolutionary disadvantage? Why dont we have a flexible bone in front of the neck? Then I found out this wierd fact - the apple is part of the cartilage rows that were once gill structure in our fishy ancestors. The gap we have between that adams apple/larynx cartilage and jawbone was one of the gill slits. friggin wierd!

And embroys grow exposed gills in the womb!

[Howlin Mad Missy]

...it's not a target...same as the nuts (unless fighting me)..if it were a target is further away from the chin, thus taking yourself closer in to range added to that the general advice of chin down/shoulder.