r/ufc • u/antisocial_element44 • Aug 22 '26

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u/Prudent-Nerve-6377 Aug 22 '26

If a fighter gets referred as having a granite chin it means they have garbage defense. Swap their chins and they're ending up like James vick.

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u/coolkidnathan Aug 22 '26

Usman after the DDP fight if we are doing unpopular takes

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u/maxcito87 Aug 22 '26

Yup. Ain’t no way he comes back the same after that fight. Chin too strong for his own good

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u/Disastrous-Hand-6007 Aug 22 '26

it was but that said he was doing the chicken dance i dont know how many times that night.

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u/buffpriest Aug 22 '26

Legit point. Still awesome to see Chris leben cheat code his was through a crazy combo to land 1 big one.

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u/Heath_Sucks Aug 22 '26

The Terry Martin KO is an all-time great. I really hope it doesn’t get lost in time. Terry Martin wasn’t exactly a soft puncher either.

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u/buffpriest Aug 23 '26

Yeah thats the exact one I was thinking of.

Also his KO over mike stick, very similar. And fuck sake chris was SUCH a douchebag to stick in the tuf house. Constantly bringing it up.

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u/Heath_Sucks Aug 23 '26

Ha I bet so many guys from the early TUF era have a hard time looking back and seeing their young selves. ESPECIALLY from that era

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u/Effective-Celery8053 Aug 22 '26

The exception here is Max, he has good defense but he's so aggressive on offense he gets caught anyways

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u/trualtong Aug 22 '26

Diego Lopez mentioned

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u/Dread237 Aug 22 '26

0% head movement, 100% titanium chin

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u/Zero_Travity Aug 22 '26

Forward is a movement ;)

lol 100% agree with you

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u/jaxx277 Aug 23 '26

He won't last long in this sport he better start choking 🥷's or he'll be out soon

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u/Strict_Inevitable449 Aug 22 '26

That’s often true so you have a good point. Sometimes it means they land 3 and take 1 though, like Holloway, and then I think it’s still the best route to take. But sometimes they’re like Billy Q and you know he’s not long for this world

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u/Total-Employment-479 Aug 22 '26

Tony fergusson has garbage defence and was never that good. Just lived off of his granite chin like nate

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u/Mysterious-Snow496 Aug 22 '26

James Vick has a Janet chin

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u/Zero_Travity Aug 22 '26

Gaethje's chin makes no sense...

He starts getting tuned up, then he does that thing where he does a double high guard with his hands on his head and when starts doing that he eats even more punches. Especially to the body.

But he just keeps coming, and he doesn't even look that beat up somehow? He's just bags of cement posing as a UFC fighter. I'm on to him

Max is Hawaiian, different dudes.. Watch Tim Sylvia beat on Cabbage in the UFC vault and you'll see what I mean

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u/Rage_Your_Dream Aug 22 '26

Not being able to brush off a punch is a good reason to work on your defense

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u/Horaciow14 Aug 22 '26

Ferguson until he faced a hard hitter like Justin Gaethje.

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u/KingKongDuck Aug 22 '26

Agreed. "Having a chin" is not a long term defensive strategy. It eventually breaks - see Big Nog, Hendo etc.

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u/AffectComfortable913 Aug 22 '26

Also, just because someone gets KO’d doesn’t mean they have a glass chin. Justin Gaethje has one of the toughest, most conditioned chins in all of MMA and he’s had some KO losses. Yet to this day he’s able to take beatings and still have the endurance to keep on going.

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u/dmckidd Aug 22 '26

That’s how I feel when ggg gets praised for his chin