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In boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
, kickboxing
Kickboxing

refers to the sport of using martial-arts-style kicks and boxing-style punches to defeat an opponent in a similar way to that of standard boxing. Kickboxing is a standing sport and does not allow continuation of the fight once a combatant has reached the ground....
 and mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
, a chin refers to a boxer's ability to tolerate physical trauma to the face without being knocked out.

A boxer with a "good chin" refers to a boxer with tremendous ability to absorb punishment in the face, which can also be called "having a beard", "iron chin", or "good whiskers". Boxers noted to have good chins are Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
, Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active mostly from the later 1960s to the mid 1970s....
, Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit , remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career....
, Jake LaMotta
Jake LaMotta

Giacobe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxing middleweight champion who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull....
, Tex Cobb, Carmen Basilio
Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....
, Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
, Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito in Torrance, California Is a Mexican American boxer and is a former World Boxing Association Welterweight Champion. He is also a former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization Welterweight champion....
, José Luis Castillo
José Luis Castillo

Jos? Luis Castillo is a Mexico Boxing. Nicknamed El Temible, Castillo has a current record of 57-9-1 with 49 knockouts. He is best known for his grueling fight against Diego Corrales for the World Boxing Council-World Boxing Organization lightweight title unification on May 7, 2005....
, Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
, Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
, Vitali Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko

Dr. Vitali Vladimirovich Klitschko born 19 July 1971 in Belovodsk, Kyrgyzstan). Klitschko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxing and the current World Boxing Council heavyweight champion....
, Nicolay Valuev, David Tua
David Tua

David Tua is a heavyweight boxer and former title challenger currently rising again in the heavyweight rankings....
, James Toney
James Toney

James "Lights Out" Toney is a professional boxing from Ann Arbor, Michigan....
, George Chuvalo
George Chuvalo

George Louis Chuvalo, Order of Canada is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxing who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979....
, John Duddy
John Duddy

John Francis Duddy is a middleweight boxing. Duddy fights under the moniker of Ireland's John Duddy or The Derry Destroyer.Duddy has won all of his 26 professional bouts, 17 of those wins were by knockout with 9 of those KO's coming in the first round....
 and others.






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In boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
, kickboxing
Kickboxing

refers to the sport of using martial-arts-style kicks and boxing-style punches to defeat an opponent in a similar way to that of standard boxing. Kickboxing is a standing sport and does not allow continuation of the fight once a combatant has reached the ground....
 and mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
, a chin refers to a boxer's ability to tolerate physical trauma to the face without being knocked out.

A boxer with a "good chin" refers to a boxer with tremendous ability to absorb punishment in the face, which can also be called "having a beard", "iron chin", or "good whiskers". Boxers noted to have good chins are Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a retired United States boxing and former three-time List of heavyweight boxing champions.As an amateur, Ali won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in the light heavyweight division gold medal....
, Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier

Joseph William Frazier, known as Smokin' Joe, is a former Olympic and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, active mostly from the later 1960s to the mid 1970s....
, Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano , born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit , remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career....
, Jake LaMotta
Jake LaMotta

Giacobe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former boxing middleweight champion who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the film Raging Bull....
, Tex Cobb, Carmen Basilio
Carmen Basilio

Carmine Basilio, born April 2 1927 in Canastota, New York, better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, is a former boxer of Italy-United States origin....
, Marvin Hagler
Marvin Hagler

Marvelous Marvin Hagler , is a former United States boxing. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest middleweights of all time and finished his career with a record of 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts....
, Antonio Margarito
Antonio Margarito

Antonio Margarito in Torrance, California Is a Mexican American boxer and is a former World Boxing Association Welterweight Champion. He is also a former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization Welterweight champion....
, José Luis Castillo
José Luis Castillo

Jos? Luis Castillo is a Mexico Boxing. Nicknamed El Temible, Castillo has a current record of 57-9-1 with 49 knockouts. He is best known for his grueling fight against Diego Corrales for the World Boxing Council-World Boxing Organization lightweight title unification on May 7, 2005....
, Evander Holyfield
Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield is a professional boxing from the United States and a multiple world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"....
, Lennox Lewis
Lennox Lewis

Lennox Claudius Lewis, Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire is a retired boxing who won gold for Canada at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur boxing....
, Vitali Klitschko
Vitali Klitschko

Dr. Vitali Vladimirovich Klitschko born 19 July 1971 in Belovodsk, Kyrgyzstan). Klitschko is a Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxing and the current World Boxing Council heavyweight champion....
, Nicolay Valuev, David Tua
David Tua

David Tua is a heavyweight boxer and former title challenger currently rising again in the heavyweight rankings....
, James Toney
James Toney

James "Lights Out" Toney is a professional boxing from Ann Arbor, Michigan....
, George Chuvalo
George Chuvalo

George Louis Chuvalo, Order of Canada is a retired Canadian heavyweight boxing who was never knocked down in ninety-three professional fights between 1956 and 1979....
, John Duddy
John Duddy

John Francis Duddy is a middleweight boxing. Duddy fights under the moniker of Ireland's John Duddy or The Derry Destroyer.Duddy has won all of his 26 professional bouts, 17 of those wins were by knockout with 9 of those KO's coming in the first round....
 and others. There is a dispute as to the physiology of having a "good chin." Some believe that a strong neck that resists a sudden angular acceleration of the head is what makes a "good chin." Supporters of this belief point to Evander Holyfield and Marvin Hagler, both of whom were strong and had large trapezius muscles around the neck. Other believe that a having a "chin" is a product of one's determination.

A boxer with a "bad chin", "glass chin", or "glass jaw". refers to boxers with limited ability to absorb punishment in the face. Many clubfighters and journeymen may have glass chins, although it may depend on weight class
Boxing weight classes

Boxing body weight-class names are not always consistent, as shown in the following table:Current weight classes for boxing at the Summer Olympics:...
 or sometimes legs. Wladimir Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko

Wladimir Vladimirovich Klitschko is a Ukraine heavyweight Boxing. Klitschko currently holds the International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization world heavyweight titles and is ranked number one by the International_Boxing_Organization in the top 100 computerized rankings....
 is sometimes referred to as having a glass chin, although some boxing experts, such as Teddy Atlas
Teddy Atlas

Theodore A. Atlas, Jr. is a well-known boxing trainer and fight commentator. The son of a doctor, Atlas grew up in a middle class neighborhood in Staten Island....
, believe it to be a mindframe. In 2008, Amir Khan
Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Iqbal Khan is a United Kingdom Boxing from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is the current Commonwealth of Nations lightweight champion, World Boxing Organization Inter-Continental lightweight champion, and World Boxing Association International lightweight champion....
 was labelled as being "chinny" and lacking a "decent chin" after being knocked out in the first minute of his bout with Colombian Breidis Prescott
Breidis Prescott

Breidis Enrique Prescott Consuegra is a Colombian lightweight Boxing. He has a reputation as a devastating puncher, with 18 of his 20 wins by way of knockout, with all coming in the first three rounds....
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