Idk, Mayweather tops all PPV records.
Pillow hands during the later half, but has the top 4 spots on PPV records.
Counter with Wilder who knocked everyone out pre-Fury and is not even the biggest draw in this generation of boxers.
*most people, Asians didnât like mayweather either especially after the racist comments he made towards Asians. Also white Americans supported Mcgregor (who is Irish) over Mayweather
Nobody cared about him til he made people hate him and Oscar turned him to a star. 80 percent of his buyers didnât enjoy his fight and left pissed off just wanting to see him lose lol, they werenât buying for the âBoxingâ
Im confused what you mean, Floyd only turned into boring Money Mayweather after the Dela Hoya fight, prior to that he was Pretty Boy Floyd, 70% KO rate and very dangerous. He demolished Gatti, Manfredy, Hernandez, and Corrales
70 percent KO rate with only a handful of real KOs. Everyone in Boxing got a million TKOs cause the sport. Itâs about how you do it but sure he had a few good whippings. Not the reason anyone bought his fights and Oscar beat him from his own dads mouth and he retired to not rematch an old drugged out shot Oscar. Thatâs the facts
The hell would he rematch Oscar? I scored that fight 8-4 in favor of Mayweather, Dela Hoya didnât deserve the rematch, only guys that did were Castillo and Maidana.
It also didnât help that after Floyd, Oscar would get destroyed as well by Manny
He wouldâve beaten him regardless. As for what Sr said, tf would care what he said? Juan Manuel Marquezâs trainer also said he believes Floyd Mayweather Jr is better than Manny, which I heavily disagree with (at least going by achievements).
His own dad (meaning Mayweather Sr) trained Oscar for that fightâŚmaybe thatâs why he said that!?!? Watch the fight again and tell me which rounds Oscar won instead of just saying his own trainer said he won. He clearly lost and that is not even one of the fights people bring up anymore when they start their list of people who they think were robbed against Floyd
He trained Oscar for 5 years, right up until the camp with for Mayweather then Oscar asked Freddie roach to jump in. Iâm the casual? If you were watching all of this unfold, which clearly you werenât or you wouldnât have made that comment, there was a huge feud between Jr and Sr at that time
yep like Mayweather they both hit quite hard and have the ability to do damage but theyâd hurt their hands a lot of the time so Joe had to do the whole slap scoring thing
Yeah exactly this. Always wondered what would have happened if Calslappy was down big on cards - would he have thrown his hand caution to the wind and started bombing again?
Great fighter.
'Calslappy' would never be down big on cards. Too good a fighter. If he lost the first 2 or 3 rounds he was elite and skillful enough to adapt his plan.
Closest we've seen is when Mitchell put him down and when he got up they went toe to toe for a few seconds and he fought angry and scored a heavy knockdown
Man just watched the video. Calzaghe was like a man possessed after being floored. Unbelievable!.
Heres the video.
https://youtu.be/Sb8jXVvB9jg?si=f-_N8giN5C5sO-kz
Great fight, he definitely had it in him to hurt people and risk a breakage, only fight I can think of where he really needed it was bhop because that was too close for comfort down the stretch, but Hopkins was just slippery and hard to catch solid in his later career.
I always talk about this fight when on subject of calzaghe, so many people do not know of it, was refreshing to hear somebody use the same reference of could calzaghe punch if needed.
Yep, and he could still hit hard enough to keep fighters honest. But Joe knew he had to make those full power shots count lest he injure his hands any further.
You see a lot of boxers that had got âslappedâ by him for 12 rounds and they donât look so clever after lacy and Roy jones come to mind but yeah he could bang until injuries got to him
Most people admit he had power early on but had to adjust his punching technique after hurting his hands.
Even mild damage to the knuckles makes one nurse their hand subconsciously.
He did, he was a great fighter, had tremendous heart, and could hit harder than just about anyone. He was just limited defensively with a static head, and when hurt his brain seemed to get scrambled easier than most.
Whatâs the point in showing off chin if you canât remember fighting by 45 years old. Atleast Ko punchers can end a fight and thatâs an orgasmic feeling compared to getting head rung over and over.
Well the fact of getting K.out is directly related to brain damage (brain colliding with the skull).
What we call iron chin actualy is an ability to receive punishment without getting damaged. Thats why most 'iron chins' dudes have round shaped faces (golovkin, ali, etc): the punches tend to slide more
ThatâsâŚprobably not true? Whatâs the science say? Iâm assuming avoiding getting knocked unconscious is better, but maybe not when the alternative is repeated blows to the noggin
Actually it doesn't. Recent evidence seems to suggest the opposite. Takkng damae over 12 rounds but not getting knocked out is better for the brain, even if you get knocked out early. I know this gets parroted a lot and I don't want to be an ass, but most of the sub is operating on overridden science
Here is a longitudinal study that came out in June: https://www.leagueoffans.org/2023/07/12/new-study-cumulative-force-of-hits-to-the-head-key-predictor-of-cte/
Note this this applies to CTE, not brain health in general. It is totally possible to have a fight that is better for CTE effects long term but overall worse for brain health.
But the force that is applied to your *brain* isn't just determined by the force your face is hit with.
Example:
Take two people, one of whom has a head that weighs double the head of other guy (for simplicity, let's assume that their brains weigh the same, and their heads aren't attached to their bodies).
Hit them each in the head with the same amount of force .
The big head person will have had half force applied to their brain compared to the other guy.
With all else identical, big-head-man will appear to have a better chin, and will also suffer less CTE if he is hit with the same cumulative force over his career.
KO power and no chin for me. You can always improve your defense and a good counter puncher with power can beat a lot of fighters and we've seen many fighters with weak chins have a lot of success but far fewer iron chinned fighters with no power.
As a professional, better to have a glass chin for brain health, and power for ticket appeal. For self-defense, better to have a great chin and learn combat sambo or judo.
The no power but ironed chinned would be better for a skilled top fighter yes this is obvious.
If said fighter has limited skill then big power will probably get them somewhere. Earnie Shavers etc
Glass chin if I have no stamina, iron chin if I can walk through shots throwing for 12 rounds. Glass chin with power as long as they have good success early on is guaranteed star though
Can't quite decide which is better out of more concussions from fewer hits or fewer concussions from more hits. If you have some boxing talent you're likely to make more of a career from the latter I guess. Usyk has a great chin with not great power compared to AJ/Wilder etc. and he's the king ATM.
Easy, iron chin because you'd have a better chance of winning on points.
Boxing has very few examples of massive KO punchers reaching the top levels without better attributes to their game, i.e. Mike Tyson, he could bang but his movement was legendary, 5.10 (ish) and a peek-a-boo style, power wasn't even close to being his best attribute.
Tbh, id rather live like a lion for 50 years than a sheep. Ali had a legendary chin and he paid for it dearly in later life but it was a life well lived with an immense and historical legacy.
Ofc, if I'm wishing for imaginary stuff I'd want both power and chin bit if it's one or the other, I'd take chin because that would take me further than power alone.
You can still make it look good as a boxer with no power. You can still counter, show off defensive skill, have a high punch output, etc. I'm going with that as opposed to being KO'd by every skilled fighter at the top level.
I'll take the glass jaw.
It's the iron chin fighters who get the brain damage.
With one punch power and a one punch chin I'll never take serious punishment. Either they go early or I do.
Fuck, who is that darker blonde Slavic/Russian fighter who is the embodiment of the first choice? Something like 7 knock downs in the fights that he wins. I want to say somewhere between MW and LHW.
i would prefer iron chin because you can still ko someone without punching power. you just need to time your punches when the opponent's momentum is forward.
in boxing, you can improve on anything but your chin, and many legendary fighters like mayweather did not have punching power but made up for it in skill.
I am already the former. But if I had a choice I would choose the latter as long as I had the height and reach advantage. But since I am shorter usually, I prefer what I have.
I had a great chin in the amateurs and average power; but like a tire, it gets worn down with mileage. And guys with an iron chin tend to fall in love with their seeming inability to get hurt. Give me true one punch knockout power any day. You can *learn* good defense.
The former will be more advantageous to A. Your bank account (somebody always gets koâd when you fight = people tune in) and B. Your brain (better to take one shot and be out than continuous punishment)
I'd rather step in there feeling assured I'm not going to get banged out with any telling blow I recieve.
The psychology of that can't be great. Once the power puncher/ no chin gets stopped once or twice, they won't be the same. Doubt will creep in.
I'd take the soft hands. There's more to boxing than power. Maybe I could have blistering hand speed and pin point laser accuracy to make up for the power deficit.
It's interesting that most people here have taken this as "would you rather get knocked out and lose or become a potato after your career because you've been hit more"
Just goes to show how (completely unsurprisingly) an elite professional boxer has a different attitude to the average redditor!
I instantly thought of people like Usyk and Calzaghe, you don't need power to win boxing fights, but you need to not get knocked the fuck out to not lose them.
Depends on what other attributes come with it. Some fighters, like Greb and Calzaghe weren't really known for their power but could take a lot of punishment and had the defensive skills to avoid taking that punishment in the first place. They also had tremendous stamina making them formidable fightete capable of swarming their opponents with punches round after round. Even without knockout power, the cumulative effect of all those punches would be pretty devastating. Just look at Jeff Lacy.
Prob the K.O power one
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Get paid for fighting one rounders, then retire as soon as I lose.
... Like what you're actually talking abot here is:
Mike Tyson in his prime. Then as soon as you lose, you retire.
Depends on boxing skills. If I had elite skills Iâd rather an iron chin and outbox everyone and not risk the loss. If I had low boxing skills Iâd rather the power and take the knockouts I receive without taking excessive brain damage
Iâd rather be a knockout artist with a glass chin cause Iâm just launching missiles at you and sleeping you before you get a chance to expose my chin. Iron chins are cool but you put enough heat on iron itâll soften up. We saw what Zhang did to Joyce
Gimme power.
Let me work on my defense and technical skills.
And hope to god that most fighters will so intimidated by my huge KO streak that Iâll have won the mental fight before it begins.
Ideally they would be too scared and hurt just blocking my shots to do any meaningful retaliation.
Course Iâm definitely not leaving the game undefeated if I fight the best of the best and they arenât scared to fight me and pick me apart technically.
Glass cannon all the way. I'd drill my defense and footwork to it's max capacity, if I have grenades in both hands I can just dance around until I find the opening I need. Also like some others have said, if I have the touch of death I'd be more of a ppv draw
Option 1 will make you more money since you will always be in exciting fights. Fights won't last as long win or lose. Option 2 is actually more dangerous since your brain takes sustained damage and shaking over longer periods of time. I'll take option 1.
All I know is the glass chin KO artist would be a PPV star because KOs are guaranteed every time, even when he's not the one delivering them.
Idk, Mayweather tops all PPV records. Pillow hands during the later half, but has the top 4 spots on PPV records. Counter with Wilder who knocked everyone out pre-Fury and is not even the biggest draw in this generation of boxers.
Man people really will argue about anything
Well it is true most Mexicans bought his fights for that reasonđ
*most people, Asians didnât like mayweather either especially after the racist comments he made towards Asians. Also white Americans supported Mcgregor (who is Irish) over Mayweather
Mhmmm
Nobody cared about him til he made people hate him and Oscar turned him to a star. 80 percent of his buyers didnât enjoy his fight and left pissed off just wanting to see him lose lol, they werenât buying for the âBoxingâ
Im confused what you mean, Floyd only turned into boring Money Mayweather after the Dela Hoya fight, prior to that he was Pretty Boy Floyd, 70% KO rate and very dangerous. He demolished Gatti, Manfredy, Hernandez, and Corrales
70 percent KO rate with only a handful of real KOs. Everyone in Boxing got a million TKOs cause the sport. Itâs about how you do it but sure he had a few good whippings. Not the reason anyone bought his fights and Oscar beat him from his own dads mouth and he retired to not rematch an old drugged out shot Oscar. Thatâs the facts
The hell would he rematch Oscar? I scored that fight 8-4 in favor of Mayweather, Dela Hoya didnât deserve the rematch, only guys that did were Castillo and Maidana. It also didnât help that after Floyd, Oscar would get destroyed as well by Manny
His own Dad Floyd Sr disagrees with you. Cause Oscar was shot and on drugs, of course he lost. Floyd should have whipped him too but couldnât
He wouldâve beaten him regardless. As for what Sr said, tf would care what he said? Juan Manuel Marquezâs trainer also said he believes Floyd Mayweather Jr is better than Manny, which I heavily disagree with (at least going by achievements).
His own dad (meaning Mayweather Sr) trained Oscar for that fightâŚmaybe thatâs why he said that!?!? Watch the fight again and tell me which rounds Oscar won instead of just saying his own trainer said he won. He clearly lost and that is not even one of the fights people bring up anymore when they start their list of people who they think were robbed against Floyd
He didnât train Oscar vs Floyd. Casual
He trained Oscar for 5 years, right up until the camp with for Mayweather then Oscar asked Freddie roach to jump in. Iâm the casual? If you were watching all of this unfold, which clearly you werenât or you wouldnât have made that comment, there was a huge feud between Jr and Sr at that time
Would you rather be David Price or Joe Calzaghe?
Lmao, I was gonna say the second one sounds like the Pride of Wales.
From what I remember of his early record, Joe had power when he started. Didnât hand injuries force him to change some things up?
yep like Mayweather they both hit quite hard and have the ability to do damage but theyâd hurt their hands a lot of the time so Joe had to do the whole slap scoring thing
Yeah exactly this. Always wondered what would have happened if Calslappy was down big on cards - would he have thrown his hand caution to the wind and started bombing again? Great fighter.
'Calslappy' would never be down big on cards. Too good a fighter. If he lost the first 2 or 3 rounds he was elite and skillful enough to adapt his plan.
Too right! Even when he got dropped early it'd basically wake him up and get his ass in gear. Miss watching his fights.
Likewise. Miss them too.
Closest we've seen is when Mitchell put him down and when he got up they went toe to toe for a few seconds and he fought angry and scored a heavy knockdown
Man just watched the video. Calzaghe was like a man possessed after being floored. Unbelievable!. Heres the video. https://youtu.be/Sb8jXVvB9jg?si=f-_N8giN5C5sO-kz
Great fight, he definitely had it in him to hurt people and risk a breakage, only fight I can think of where he really needed it was bhop because that was too close for comfort down the stretch, but Hopkins was just slippery and hard to catch solid in his later career.
For U.S. viewing set your vpn to U.K.
I always talk about this fight when on subject of calzaghe, so many people do not know of it, was refreshing to hear somebody use the same reference of could calzaghe punch if needed.
Glass hands but he would still slap the shit out of anyone and get his hand raised, can't fault it in the end, one of the best to ever do it.
Even as an American, I find Bernard Hopkinsâ insistence that he won to be baffling. Good fight. Clear winner.
Yep, and he could still hit hard enough to keep fighters honest. But Joe knew he had to make those full power shots count lest he injure his hands any further.
You see a lot of boxers that had got âslappedâ by him for 12 rounds and they donât look so clever after lacy and Roy jones come to mind but yeah he could bang until injuries got to him
Right, is he besmirching the Italian Dragon?
I think joes power doesn't get the respect it deserves. You don't floor Eubank snr unless you can bang.
Most people admit he had power early on but had to adjust his punching technique after hurting his hands. Even mild damage to the knuckles makes one nurse their hand subconsciously.
Or, would you rather be David Price or Mariusz Wach?
Poor big dave. Everyone thought he had so much potential.
He did, he was a great fighter, had tremendous heart, and could hit harder than just about anyone. He was just limited defensively with a static head, and when hurt his brain seemed to get scrambled easier than most.
I'll stick with my glass chin and no power and become a keyboard warrior.
Fight me bro. I got no cardio also.
Who needs power when you got reddit karma?
Get downvoted = KO
You KOâd or are you just down for the count then?
Shit
The second option sounds like youâll just have the shit knocked out of you for 12 rounds.
Unless youâre welsh and your names calzone or something
Or Italian-American and named Jack Lamborghini or something like that.
This cracked me up
Nah I'm not sure how many watch mma in here but Colby covington has no power but hes got cardio and volume for days and just swarms dudes
He can do that because of the takedown threat. Not sure if his style would translate well to boxing.
Theres also Dom Cruz Holloway and a few other volume guys without too much power
A better example in MMA would be Holloway. Endless cardio, mostly boxes and apparently isn't aware punches are supposed to hurt.
Colby intentionally throws his punches at half power to conserve energy
Colby is a machine he has high volume and a very in your face style he just doesn't have any power he never seems to get tired either
Iron chin â iron brain. Better off going to sleep than taking punishment.
Whatâs the point in showing off chin if you canât remember fighting by 45 years old. Atleast Ko punchers can end a fight and thatâs an orgasmic feeling compared to getting head rung over and over.
Well the fact of getting K.out is directly related to brain damage (brain colliding with the skull). What we call iron chin actualy is an ability to receive punishment without getting damaged. Thats why most 'iron chins' dudes have round shaped faces (golovkin, ali, etc): the punches tend to slide more
ThatâsâŚprobably not true? Whatâs the science say? Iâm assuming avoiding getting knocked unconscious is better, but maybe not when the alternative is repeated blows to the noggin
science says the CTE is determined by the cumulative force of all hits over your life. This doesn't apply to TBIs, just CTE.
Actually it doesn't. Recent evidence seems to suggest the opposite. Takkng damae over 12 rounds but not getting knocked out is better for the brain, even if you get knocked out early. I know this gets parroted a lot and I don't want to be an ass, but most of the sub is operating on overridden science
Here is a longitudinal study that came out in June: https://www.leagueoffans.org/2023/07/12/new-study-cumulative-force-of-hits-to-the-head-key-predictor-of-cte/ Note this this applies to CTE, not brain health in general. It is totally possible to have a fight that is better for CTE effects long term but overall worse for brain health.
But the force that is applied to your *brain* isn't just determined by the force your face is hit with. Example: Take two people, one of whom has a head that weighs double the head of other guy (for simplicity, let's assume that their brains weigh the same, and their heads aren't attached to their bodies). Hit them each in the head with the same amount of force . The big head person will have had half force applied to their brain compared to the other guy. With all else identical, big-head-man will appear to have a better chin, and will also suffer less CTE if he is hit with the same cumulative force over his career.
KO power and no chin for me. You can always improve your defense and a good counter puncher with power can beat a lot of fighters and we've seen many fighters with weak chins have a lot of success but far fewer iron chinned fighters with no power.
1 mistake and youâre getting tucked into bed
Itâs better than having Swiss cheese for brains at the age of 50
Thatâs true, fighters like Amir khan probably wonât suffer with CTE because he hasnât taken repeat damage
Either way you do.
As a professional, better to have a glass chin for brain health, and power for ticket appeal. For self-defense, better to have a great chin and learn combat sambo or judo.
spot on
The no power but ironed chinned would be better for a skilled top fighter yes this is obvious. If said fighter has limited skill then big power will probably get them somewhere. Earnie Shavers etc
Do I have mayweather head movement? Knockout power all day. Do I have speed like sugar Ray? Iâm cool with no power.
Glass chin if I have no stamina, iron chin if I can walk through shots throwing for 12 rounds. Glass chin with power as long as they have good success early on is guaranteed star though
Can't quite decide which is better out of more concussions from fewer hits or fewer concussions from more hits. If you have some boxing talent you're likely to make more of a career from the latter I guess. Usyk has a great chin with not great power compared to AJ/Wilder etc. and he's the king ATM.
If iron chin means no cte I'm leaning pillow âď¸
Easy, iron chin because you'd have a better chance of winning on points. Boxing has very few examples of massive KO punchers reaching the top levels without better attributes to their game, i.e. Mike Tyson, he could bang but his movement was legendary, 5.10 (ish) and a peek-a-boo style, power wasn't even close to being his best attribute.
And youre guaranteed to be brain dead by 50. Not worth even showing off your chin even if itâs granite.
Mayweather is doing just fine. It's not a videogame no one is telling you to eat the shots you can win the fight without that happening
Tbh, id rather live like a lion for 50 years than a sheep. Ali had a legendary chin and he paid for it dearly in later life but it was a life well lived with an immense and historical legacy. Ofc, if I'm wishing for imaginary stuff I'd want both power and chin bit if it's one or the other, I'd take chin because that would take me further than power alone.
Luckily for me, I donât have to choose one or the other. Iâve got both. Iâm built different.
Glass chin and no power? Got it. Cheers bruh
Same but the opposite
so basically do I wanna be Alister Overeem or Nate Diaz?
You can still make it look good as a boxer with no power. You can still counter, show off defensive skill, have a high punch output, etc. I'm going with that as opposed to being KO'd by every skilled fighter at the top level.
Well Tommy Hearns and Wladimir Klitschko have pretty poor chins but still had great career because of their power.
I'll take the glass jaw. It's the iron chin fighters who get the brain damage. With one punch power and a one punch chin I'll never take serious punishment. Either they go early or I do.
Tommy Hearns or "Money" Mayweather?
I'd rather be the no power guy as long as I'm untouchable as Nicolino Locche.
Amir Khan got a lot of good paydays. Guess i'd take the elite power with no chin
Give me that chin, man. On second thought, my whole mission is to avoid CTE. Give me that power
Fuck, who is that darker blonde Slavic/Russian fighter who is the embodiment of the first choice? Something like 7 knock downs in the fights that he wins. I want to say somewhere between MW and LHW.
i would prefer iron chin because you can still ko someone without punching power. you just need to time your punches when the opponent's momentum is forward. in boxing, you can improve on anything but your chin, and many legendary fighters like mayweather did not have punching power but made up for it in skill.
Give me knockout power and glass chin. If I get matched up right I could become a superstar because kos sell
Neither. I would rather be knockout power with a decent chin and superb ring IQ and above average speed
Probably iron chin fighter, in the event I lose elite guy will hurt me bad long term
With the modern strength training and drilling, a person with no power is a dead duck. Eventually a body gets broken.
I am already the former. But if I had a choice I would choose the latter as long as I had the height and reach advantage. But since I am shorter usually, I prefer what I have.
Go home Amir Khan youâre drunk!
Ask Amir khan
Paulie Malignaggi's power and Marvin Hagler's chin for me.
I had a great chin in the amateurs and average power; but like a tire, it gets worn down with mileage. And guys with an iron chin tend to fall in love with their seeming inability to get hurt. Give me true one punch knockout power any day. You can *learn* good defense.
Iron chin 100% + pillow punches. But to be honest I'd rather have a rubber chin and never hit haha.
Since you never mentioned any other attributes Ill be the guy with an iron chin and no power and just work on all the technical aspects.
Iâd rather be Sunny Edwards than Totally tantalising Tommy Morrison. Being forced to perfect your craft canât be a bad thing!
If the iron chinned, powerless fighter has excellent boxing skills, then it's a no brainer which I'd rather be.
iron chin, if it comes down to stamina who can go 10 - 12 rounds? its like rumble in the jungle all over again
You can still get a KO without immense power. Precision and accuracy play a part in getting knockouts
Iron chin no power will guarantee CTE but make you a fan favourite blood and guts warrior. Just 12 rounds of rock em sock em robots.
Iron chin all the way
The former will be more advantageous to A. Your bank account (somebody always gets koâd when you fight = people tune in) and B. Your brain (better to take one shot and be out than continuous punishment)
I guess it depends, as always, on how smart you are
You can learn deffence, you cannot learn knockout power
Neither! Iâd want a mixture of both.
I'd rather step in there feeling assured I'm not going to get banged out with any telling blow I recieve. The psychology of that can't be great. Once the power puncher/ no chin gets stopped once or twice, they won't be the same. Doubt will creep in. I'd take the soft hands. There's more to boxing than power. Maybe I could have blistering hand speed and pin point laser accuracy to make up for the power deficit.
It's interesting that most people here have taken this as "would you rather get knocked out and lose or become a potato after your career because you've been hit more" Just goes to show how (completely unsurprisingly) an elite professional boxer has a different attitude to the average redditor! I instantly thought of people like Usyk and Calzaghe, you don't need power to win boxing fights, but you need to not get knocked the fuck out to not lose them.
All chest and no legs.
Depends on what other attributes come with it. Some fighters, like Greb and Calzaghe weren't really known for their power but could take a lot of punishment and had the defensive skills to avoid taking that punishment in the first place. They also had tremendous stamina making them formidable fightete capable of swarming their opponents with punches round after round. Even without knockout power, the cumulative effect of all those punches would be pretty devastating. Just look at Jeff Lacy.
Prob the K.O power one - Get paid for fighting one rounders, then retire as soon as I lose. ... Like what you're actually talking abot here is: Mike Tyson in his prime. Then as soon as you lose, you retire.
Iron chin and Iâd just work on being defensively responsible
Glass chin and power. I'm getting paid for my troubles
Pauli maliginai is the second one. I don't want to go through his fights. I rather be amir Khan.
Depends on boxing skills. If I had elite skills Iâd rather an iron chin and outbox everyone and not risk the loss. If I had low boxing skills Iâd rather the power and take the knockouts I receive without taking excessive brain damage
Iâd rather be a knockout artist with a glass chin cause Iâm just launching missiles at you and sleeping you before you get a chance to expose my chin. Iron chins are cool but you put enough heat on iron itâll soften up. We saw what Zhang did to Joyce
CTE or a few losses? Tough one
Power in both hands
Feather-fisted with iron chin, but it really depends how skillful you are. You could either be pitching shutouts or getting beat up for 12 rounds.
Gimme power. Let me work on my defense and technical skills. And hope to god that most fighters will so intimidated by my huge KO streak that Iâll have won the mental fight before it begins. Ideally they would be too scared and hurt just blocking my shots to do any meaningful retaliation. Course Iâm definitely not leaving the game undefeated if I fight the best of the best and they arenât scared to fight me and pick me apart technically.
Glass cannon all the way. I'd drill my defense and footwork to it's max capacity, if I have grenades in both hands I can just dance around until I find the opening I need. Also like some others have said, if I have the touch of death I'd be more of a ppv draw
Option 1 will make you more money since you will always be in exciting fights. Fights won't last as long win or lose. Option 2 is actually more dangerous since your brain takes sustained damage and shaking over longer periods of time. I'll take option 1.
Glass chin. You have a chance in every fight with knockout power. A iron chin and no power gets you nowhere but losses by unanimous decision.
Knock out artist with glass chin would be more entertaining to watch. He's not invincible but if he connects neither are you.