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I think the notion of "chinny" fighters is the most over played aspect of the sport with the least amount of actual evidence supporting it. Nowadays a fighter gets dropped a few times and he's chinny. Considering the sports design, its not only one of the dumbest conclusions in boxing but also one of the funniest.
It's like expecting a baseball player to never strike out or a basketball player to hit 100% of their free throws or a soccer player to hit 100% of their PK's.....getting tagged on the chin happens and for a career as long as RJJ's and at such a high level you can't really say "he was always chinny", he became chinny after the weight loss but he's also older and slower as well. All fighters age, it happens.
Indeed. George Chuvalo did a recent (last week) interview on CBC on a program called Mansbridge one on one. Just an amazing man and its incredible how lucid and sharp he is. Odd as it may sound, he claims that one can strengthen a chin by actually being punched. It sounds crazy at first but it most likely makes some scientific sense. He says you develop a resistance and its less shock mentally and physically after you have been punched going through the ranks. So based on his theory although unstated from him, guys that are rarely touched throughout their career may be susceptible to going down on a nice shot or even getting planked.

Now George is not one to boast so he would not suggest that some people like himself, Gavilan and the like were born with concrete chins. And of course there are jello chinned individuals also like Eric Crumble but I think there are very few real chinless fighters at the elite level overall.