How Does a Fighter Lose His Chin?

[DaxxKahn]

Im of the thought that once you have been out cold unless you are of very stern stuff ;or you rebuild up your beard again with some very hard sparring and serious testing in slow stages:You could have a problem.

Other wise for many the original spark out can pave the way to you going out to it a touch easier the next time around and so on and so forth. Our cells have a memory as does the shut down process and also the fight or flight process . If it helped us to survive a bad situation once, its not unheard of in some situations (Not always fighting) to automatically and subconsciously head for the shut down mode the next time around.

Pretty much how I was always described it...After a severe trauma the body installs a self safety so to speak.....

Some guys can take abuse all their lives and never have that one big moment where they are damaged enough to have the body do this....some always have it...

In the end your body knows what is best for you and when its time to shut off it does

[God.in.my.corner]

I think once you have been truely knocked out the memory (and fear) is always there. Deep in the subconscious, you know that you are vulnurable, and I think the mindset of the fighter changes. This coupled with getting older, I think some of that edge is lost. And I do agree the body installs a "safety switch" that prevents future damage.

If a person has never been knocked out, it's a strange response for the body. The body dosent know what to do. After several times, it may become routine.

[paddy448]

i dont no the exact science behind the whole punch resistance thing, but i think its just wear and tear over the years of getting tagged, there is no way hatton could keep taking the bombs he did like he did in tyszu fight, i actually think the tyszu fight was his most damaging fight, but back then he was fresh not many miles on the clock,i think that the tyszu fight took alot out of ricky, it must of done, he was getting tagged harder in that fight than in the mayweather,collazo or pacman fights,but he couldnt take there shots, imagine ricky of today trying to walk thru the shots that he did against tyszu back in 05, hatton

[holmcall]

One way is by being concussed as in Maskiev. Another is through constantly dehydrating and messing with your diet as in Ricky. In my opinion, once it happens, it will repeat itself more often. Leon Spinks got iced by Gerrie Coetzee and then suffreed 7 or 8 more icings during the rest of his craeer. When Cobb's time came, he was bounced up and down the canvas like a yo yo by big Dee Collier, but in actuality, he had been decked the fight before by Eddie Gregg. It happens.

[Spicoli]

Think mentality plays a big factor as well.Its easy to go down,much harder to get up...a guy might become used to being hurt/dropped...almost except it more easily once it happens.Have always thought relying on "a great chin" can get a guy into heaps of trouble,and in some cases its not a compliment.

[Chris Nagel]

It's the punch you don't see coming that rocks you the most. I'd wager that fighters that are skilled in seeing the punches coming tend to take punches better than most.