I've seen fights where these guys have absorbed clean shots that would've dropped elephants, I consider all three in the top bracket of chins in MMA.
In all the fights and all the years these three have been active, there was only one KO defeat between them, and now all have been knocked out within a few months. Strange.
I guess it just goes to prove that any fighter can be KO'd. That's just human physiology, after all. Roy Nelson has the best chin I've ever seen in MMA, and he got totalled by the right punch in the right place from Arlovski.
Makes me fear for some of my favourite fighters who are getting older (Penn, Hendo, Shogun) - we could be seeing some shocking and uncharacteristic TKO defeats for these guys soon, if they keep fighting top guys.
Watching Big Nog, Wanderlei and Chuck suffer KO defeats was awful, really hope it doesn't go the same way with the three mentioned above.
If 2013 is the year of cracked iron now that Nate, Hunt and Anderson have lost by KO, my money would be on Frankie Edgar being the next fighter with a perceived strong chin to fall. The guy just gets hit way too much.
In all the fights and all the years these three have been active, there was only one KO defeat between them, and now all have been knocked out within a few months. Strange.
I guess it just goes to prove that any fighter can be KO'd. That's just human physiology, after all. Roy Nelson has the best chin I've ever seen in MMA, and he got totalled by the right punch in the right place from Arlovski.
Makes me fear for some of my favourite fighters who are getting older (Penn, Hendo, Shogun) - we could be seeing some shocking and uncharacteristic TKO defeats for these guys soon, if they keep fighting top guys.
Watching Big Nog, Wanderlei and Chuck suffer KO defeats was awful, really hope it doesn't go the same way with the three mentioned above.
If 2013 is the year of cracked iron now that Nate, Hunt and Anderson have lost by KO, my money would be on Frankie Edgar being the next fighter with a perceived strong chin to fall. The guy just gets hit way too much.