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I wrote that.
Sure. What was incorrect about my statements. Who has Vitali beaten that's even worth mentioning?
What makes you put Chris Byrd as an elite HW? He beat who? Peter and Hide for his titles, both reasonable wins. He took out sanders and got unlucky vs Lennox (and boy did Lennox make him pay). Sure he has shit wins like Briggs and Sosnowski and baby bro has a better resume, but he has beaten a lot of top ten fighters in that period. And to say Lennox was nearly shot is speculation at best and not true at worst.
Smaller area of MMA gloves means there is more impact on the skin, in other words you are more likely to cause cuts with MMA gloves. But it does not follow that this means more impact to the brain.
Great random physics but what you are saying makes little sense since when they tested the impact they found that the force transferred to the target was pretty much the same between MMA gloves and Boxing gloves. The change in momentum of the head is what causes the KO. The more force transferred regardless of the area it's spread over is the only thing that matters in terms of a knock out. Newtons 2nd law says the net force on an object is equal to the rate of change of its linear momentum.
What that video tested was purely the force of a punch with the level of deformity between a bare fist, 6 oz. Japanese MMA gloves, and 10 oz. boxing gloves being the variable. They found that the variable of deformity was low between the MMA and boxing glove. The mechanics and physics can get very complicated to measure the felt impact of a punch. So let's focus on the constants and the variables between gloves to find where the differences are physically from the perspective of the conservation of momentum.
This is simply irrelevant in this case because we know exactly how rapidly the target is accelerated by the punch. It's good science, they measure the resultant momentum change in the target not the force of the impact itself. Now what would be interesting is if they knew exactly how much force was in the striking body and how much was actually imparted into the target vs. different striking surfaces.The Fan Man said:Let's assume that the distance, velocity, acceleration, mass, density, force, and deformity are essentially the same. The time, area, and pressure are different causing a severe change to the felt damage of a punch. Simply put, the design of boxing gloves makes it easier to ride a punch, harder to be precise in accuracy, and the pressure changes the damage for reasons that can be explained by complex inelastic collision models.
There is absolutely no way boxers have better chins than MMA fighters. The difference mainly comes from technique. Boxers know better how to deliver and defend being punched in the head since this is what they do. That's pretty much the end of it. Now, there are factors like the gloves and other things, but it's mainly the technique. MMA gloves were proven to hit slightly harder than a boxing glove. It's not very much, but it is something. You see more one punch KOs, because MMA fighters on the whole have weaker defense against punches than boxers. This is mixture of both boxers being superior in boxing skills and MMA fighters having to worry about other attacks that may leave them open for a big punch.
Individuals in both sports have better or worse chins naturally. Some people just can take bigger hits than other people, but this probably is about the same between the two sports.
On average of course... And forgive my ignorance in advance its just what i see.
Explain to me why am wrong.
Diaz, Maldonado, Penn, JDS, Gomi: those are MMA fighters who use their boxing skills as "primary weapon" and in fact they are well known for having "great chin". so i m 100% sure that training boxing will make your chin harder (absorb more damage) and ofc building Heavy Hands for power.
Because the pain between getting hit with boxing gloves on can't even remotely compare to getting knee'd / kicked in the face.
Boxers do take ALOT more punches per fight but the pain / chin levels in MMA are far far superior
This is a chin: