Kirkland's Chin.

[VG_Addict]

I think it's weak. Consider this: Canelo couldn't floor Lara, who got dropped twice by Angulo.

He floored Trout, but he turned out to have a weak chin.

Defense doesn't cover the fact that Kirkland was dropped twice, and brutally KO'd. If you have a weak chin, great defense can help, but you'll still have a weak chin.

[Beanflicker]

I don't think you can call his chin weak, he took a lot of bombs that would have stopped most fighters and stayed on his feet before finally get KO'd.

Canelo can punch. He's not necessarily a GGG but he has legit KO power in both hands. Lara and Trout are slick southpaw movers, he never landed the kind of shots on them that he did on Kirkland.

[IamInuit]

Wow. If you ask me the guys got a great chin. 9 out of ten people would have been planked in the first round.

[TitoFan]

This is how good Kirkland's chin is:

[beenKOed]

Wow. If you ask me the guys got a great chin. 9 out of ten people would have been planked in the first round.

I was thinking his chin is going to be questionable until he starts thinking seriously about defense. Apparently the best defense is not a great offense.

[El Kabong]

He was lucky Canelo missed so often with those right uppercuts....oooh you knew something was going to land eventually and then it was lights out.


But if Kirkland fought SMART everyone would be calling him a pussy

[SlimTrae]

Wow. If you ask me the guys got a great chin. 9 out of ten people would have been planked in the first round.

Very surprised he made it out of the first round.
Round two he seemed to have taken the shots better.
I remember Tito use to survive early knockdown then took shots better as the round wore on.
Same with Kirkland- adding on what you guys have suggested that adds to his woes, with which I agree.

[SlimTrae]

Angulo and especially Joel Julio landed way friggin harder than Ishida, but trainer Ann & Pops had Kirkland in the "wolfe" zone.

He walked through fire in both fights like one of those zombies in the movies that feel no pain.
And rapper fifty cent has the nerve to say: next fight he is going back to Ann.
What for? Too late IMO, that was a damaging KO.

[El Kabong]

When I saw Canelo land that right cross and James go spinning down to the canvas in my mind I hear the "BWEEE WOO WOOOOOOO" Mike Tyson's Punch-Out sound effect....all the fight was missing after that was Mario as the referee