Quote Originally Posted by Vintage View Post
There must be something in it, as we hear it said about boxers quite often.

Also, ray mercer comes to mind. He once had a granite chin. But with him, his knockout losses might had more to do with being too old and lacking any ambition
Well, we've heard it said about Hatton enough times,that's for sure. The evidence is not conclusive though. Maybe it sounds better than being "totally outboxed and outpunched" And yeah, that punch would have KO'd a few people.

But I suppose that conditioning might have something to do with it. Perhaps we can learn something from the story of Eric Lindros who suffered repeatedly from concussions throughout his hockey career. Just bad luck? Did he become physically more vulnerable to KO as time went on? I'm not sure that was ever proven as a reason. Anyone who saw that hit from Kirk Stevens would know you didn't have to be prone to concussions to be KO's from that one.