I don't know when it started, but I thought his chin was iffy when Willie Limond of all people knocked him down hard in their fight.
Khan is tough and has massive heart though, which is why he is usually capable of overcoming getting hurt or knocked down (e.g. the Chino fight).
His chin is bad though, and it's half the reason why he's so exciting. When an old Julio Diaz knocks you around the ring, you have a chin issue.
yea, that chin aint no iron or granite...
its made of glass... check your boxing history bro, khans chin is fragile... and it aint even a question anymore, its a fact!
#1..man that chin was already suspect when he was still fightin for the british title...I dont know, 7 years ago?
#2..heres how you gauged chins:
jmm got floored easily in the past, but he always get up
solid and win the fight....compared to khan, he get up w/ noodle legs, still groggy
pac was never koed in the chin until jmm... w/c took 8 years in the process.... a chin like that even required a specialist, heredia, wow... that chin is pretty special
floyed, w/ his style of fighting, barely gets hits compared to pac and jmm.... his chin is always buried deep by his famous shoulder roll, that chin is barely hit but it was wobbled by a lesser punch... now thers your suspect chin... lol...
khan surviving maidana got nothin to do w/ chin
specially when its his game plan to floyed it the whole time.... I mean protect it the whole time lol
His 2 ko losses and various knockdown a early in career.
his chin was always suspect but danny garcia was the one to expose it
I think it was from the planet : Uranus (2 blox left)
Prescott blitzed him inside round one in a fight involving two hot undefeated prospects at lightweights.He came back to win four of his next six fights by TKO but then he barely survived Lamont Peterson in losing a split decision and losing his world title at junior welterweight. In his next fight he was kayoed by Danny Gracia in a fight he was dominating dropping his bid to reclaim his world title at 140. In his first fight at welterweights he was also downed by former lightweight titlist Julio Diaz but survived to win by decision. But again he came back strongly to a dominating UD over veteran Luis Collazo scoring three knockdowns in the process.
His winning fight over Maidana where he even downed the tough big punching Argentine with a body shot did not erase the stigma of weak chin as he also faded down the stretch and had to survive Maidana's strong punching to eke out a UD. .
1) his KO defeats to Prescott and Garcia.
2). No.
Even if Maidana is a bigger puncher, it doesn't mean he will land the punches. If he doesn't land a knockout shot, the chin isn't questioned.
For example, Tony Tucker took Tyson and Lennox Lewis the distance. But Herbie Hyde knocked him out in 2 rounds. Is Hyde a bigger puncher than Tyson or Lewis? No. But Tucker was old when he fought Hyde, so he got caught easier.
khan doesn't get knocked out every time he's tagged with a hard shot, but he is susceptible to a one punch knockout and also has a tendency to get badly rocked. and he survived maidana by he skin of his teeth. maidana had him practically out on his feet but failed to close the show. (maidana's style was much cruder then)
1) He got knocked down a few times early in his career when he was an unbeaten prospect. He then got blasted out in like 55 seconds by huge puncher Prescott which was enough to convince people he didn't have a chin.
2) It probably did in some eyes but then the Garcia Knockout loss brought the glass chin idea back.
I personally think he has a pretty solid chin but it's more his personality that gets him in trouble. He always tries to get up literally straight away when he goes down so he is still shaky once up. He is extremely fast and perhaps takes his speed for granted by throwing reckless combinations and he got timed good by Danny. Prescott was just a beast that night, he would have give any current lightweight big trouble and Khan was at the wrong weight anyway, should have moved up earlier.
He took a roided Petersons bombs for 12 rounds and like you said he survived Maidana.
two questions i want answered.
1. Where did the glass-jaw criticism start - what fight caused this to start.
2. Doesn't him surviving maidana (the biggest puncher in the division) without going down once erase the chin situation?
