Is in "all in the head", does age affect your chin, is it brain damage? If it is brain damage, should someone be able to continue a career (Holyfield, Ali)?
2006-07-18 08:09:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Boxing
The Boxers not necesarily loses it chin but to a boxer like Tyson or Roy Jones everyone out there is trying to figure out how to KO a guy like that....the first Boxer to KO Boxers such as these set out kind of a blue print on how to do it. And that is what happened to Tyson and Jones.
2006-07-18 17:44:50 · answer #1 · answered by ICE_ICE_Baby? 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No it's not all in your head.
The ligaments and muscles which made the chin resistant are weakened and future blows of the same sort have more effect.
Thus the chin can move back more easily leading the blood to the brain being cut off more easily than before.
2006-07-18 15:27:22 · answer #2 · answered by Grey Bear 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a boxer before a deadly car crash I was involved in that ended my career. I was never knocked down or out. The answer to your question is this. Once you have been knocked out, mentally you loose your shield of invincibility, so your mind is sub consciously awaiting for it to happen again. You loose apart of your will and fire to go out and destroy opponents so you become vulnerable for another knockout, lost or sub par performance. The only way to get past this is to go back immediately and knock him or her (female boxers)back out. Example: Lennox Lewis vs. Hassim Rakmaan 2
2006-07-18 21:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by darrenhutchinson7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jones or tyson never got hit with a good power punch when everyone saw they coulnt take a punch its over for them
2006-07-18 19:40:25 · answer #4 · answered by david c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋