Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny
Well at his age it's not unusual at all for chin to improve. Supplementary to that therer is a limited amount of training he can do. In my personal opinion the knockout loss in question may see him branded as chinny unnecessarily. He wasn't knocked out by a journeyman, he was knocked out by a psyched, prepared and extremely motivated Ponce de Leon, who has proven himself time and again as a big puncher.
So I feel Bautista may feel the same branding Iron Lewis felt after the McAll and Rahman losses.
I wish Bautista luck, he seems like a nice young guy and he can punch himself so perhaps that loss could be the best thing ever to happen to him. I still rate him a lot higher than fellow super bantam Bernard Dunne who suffered an identical fate around the same time.
Actually,it was his fight before the Ponce fight which lead to people calling him chinny. I can't remember the name of the fighter but he Bautista wobbled. I dont think it's over for Boom Boom,no way,but I do think he needs to come up slowly,bide him time.
The argentine Medina on May 5th wasn't it?
Yeah he was hurt, but tbh Medin a was an unknown quantity who turned out to be tough and awjkward so i wouldn't discredit Rey's chin entirely on that performance as he pulled out a win after going through adversity...


Note* Having posted iv just seen VD dealt with the same topic....my bad