What determines how easily you get knocked out?

Question

Is it bone structure? Do certain locations trigger unconsciousness like the jaw or temple more than other spots? Does neck size matter? Can you build a tolerance to not being as easily knocked out as you once were before? Does it have anything to do with the sinuses? Skull shape?

If you watch UFC or MMA, then you would know this one fighter - Wesley "Cabbage" Coreia. He probably has the toughest jaw in MMA period. How is this possible?


Please, can I get answers and theories and the data to support them. I don't want people just throwing guesses. People with fighting backgrounds preferred, please. Thanks.

Answer 1

First,

It's been long debated who has the best chin in MMA. The arguement always seems to come down to Mark Hunt, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Fujita, and Cabbage. Based on Cabbage's last few performances (Butterbean, Tank, and Silva) I think his name can be taken out of the mix and watching Mark Hunt absorb multiple high kicks from Cro Cop, I think he's probably at the head of the class. More than anything I think it's haveing a short thick neck. There's a thread in the "Ask the Fighters" section of the sherdog forums that addresses your exact question, check out the link below.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Some of it genetics (as with cabbage), some people are just resistant to knockouts. There is nothing you can do to improve this.

Muscle in the neck help. there are a variety of excercises that will strengthen the neck muscles, making it harder to get the head rotation that cause the short circuit in the brian stem.

Other than that your question was what locations caused knock outs. First and foremost is the jaw, this is because a solid hit on one side of the jaw causes the head to snap to one side or the other. It also allows the shock of the blow to travel along the jaw bone and can cause a jeering of the brain stem. This is how people get knocked out by the striagth right. There is also the knock out from snapping the head back causing the same jeering as the striagth right but in a more significant way. This is usually achieved with an upper cut.

Hooks, striaghts and upper cuts are the most dangerous punches, however, never rule out the jab. The best way to keep from being knocked out by these blows is to not get hit directly by them. Glancing blows are much less likely to knock someone out, although it happens quite a bit. Breathing with your mouth open increases knock outs as the jaw is loose and as such is a much better conduit for transferring the shock of the blow to the brain stem.

So to prevent knock outs you need to do the following, keep your chin down when you strike, this lowers the risk of catching a fight ending counter. Keep your mouth closed and breathe through your nose. The longer the fight the harder this is to do. The easiest way to eliminate the knock out is not get hit. However, no one wins fights without being willing to take a few hits to win.

Good Luck!

Answer 4

I think you kinda got it with the bone structure, I'm an ex boxer and some people with longer chins that stuck out would be considered a weak chin, if they had a thick bone structure and jaw/chin wasn't sticking out as far it helped. Thick headed thick bones not so long jaw and I'm sure them neck muscles help a little. But the temple shot above the ear will knock any body out. Chin shots are most common in boxing it whips there head back. Well I'm just a dumb ex boxer all i know is it sucks hehe, I'm no expert. Oh yeah people with longer necks are a little easier to knock out too cause you can get your fist right up under there to the jaw with an upper cut or hook. That's why its important to keep your chin tucked behind you jab arm/shoulder.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I was a boxer until a few years ago and while I may not be able to fully answer your question I can say that a knockout is most likely with a blow to the jaw.

A knockout is caused when the head is made to rotate sharply and without control causing a minor trauma to the brain stem.

In my life I have ....unfortunatley....been knocked out twice.

Answer 7

It's nothing to do with how hard you're hit, it's more how your hit. It only takes about 3lbs of pressure to knock someone out. So it's more to do with how your made that determines how easily you are knocked out.

Answer 8

Getting knocked out is from lack of oxogn to the brain like getting choked or quick trauma like a blow to the head. You can also get knocked out from getting hit in the solar plexus but I'm not exactly sure why. The muscles in your neck and jaw matter as the bigger they are the more impact they can absorb from a blow to the chin but a shot to the temple or skull you should just learn to duck. You can't build tollerance but the more you get knocked out the easier it becomes again. So again, learn to duck or move. Nothing to do with skullshape unless your deformed and nothing to do with sinuses unless you have a medical problem. Some people are just built with the right amount of stuff in the right places like Cabbage. Take a look at his neck.

Answer 9

This may help

The "snap" of the head/neck,and the brain "jerk" inside the
skull have a great deal to do with "The Knock Out"

It helps a lot,(in my opinion) to have a well developed neck.
A well muscled neck is an asset to "all" sports activity
including Martial Arts
Contact sports like football have a neck building routine
designed to prevent broken and injured necks.

Answer 10

where and how your hit.if you focus on the end of the chin your wasting your time.very few ppl can be knocked out by being hit in the end of the chin.some ppl (like WC)can take the hardest punishment you can dish out in the end of the chin.as for the temple well if hit in the right place you cant with stand it.