Ability to take punches

Go in the ring, do 10-20 forward rolls and stand up and try to stay and steady as you can.. or else during break from shadowboxing turn around as fast as you can and when the round starts try to stay as steady as possible.

 

Bull**** advice!
You can not learn how to take a punch. Some people can not take shots without getting hurt and can not fully recover after getting hit. Others have the natural ability to be able to withstand shots (they can still get ktfo) and recover better then others.

 

What Juxhin is talking about is actually used by quite a few trainers to get their fighters used to fighting while they're 'buzzed', although it's not going to help you take the actual shot any better.

Some guys can just take better shots, but conditioning, relaxation and the state you enter the ring (not having to cut obscene amounts of weight) can help.

 

What's the biggest similarity between all head shot ko's ? Other then the obvious 'they are from punches'?

 

The head bounces back?

 

The other person doesn't see them coming?

 

Bingo.

Increase your awareness- increase your ability to take and avoid punches ....

I used to get rocked all the time in the amateurs. I have a solid chin these days.

 

You cannot condition your jaw.. don't forget its a bone, training your neck muscle helps keep your head solid once you get hit and not bounce everywhere like a crazy.. The forward rolls in the ring and turning during shadowboxing helps ALOT, doesn't help to take a shot but it helps getting used to the buz of getting a strong shot and still stay standing, it takes 3 pounds of pressure to knock someone out but you can still stand up from that shot or tuck your chin down and toughen up your guard instead of getting KOed and cry to your coach saying "BUT YOU CANNOT CONDITION YOUR JAW" ..

 

BB nails it. In more than a few years of boxing, the worst I've ever been hurt by a punch came when I was working the mitts with a fighter. He threw a left instead of a right and blasted me on the chin; next thing I knew I was getting up.
Gene Tunney spoke about this. He said to train the mind and the body to react in all circumstances, condition your response. When they get shorted out they respond on their own, as his did in the 2nd Dempsey fight. Greg Haugen talked about doing extra running, in the belief that it helped him get his legs back faster after catching a good shot.
Keep your chin down and don't reach with punches.

 

the more relaxed your are ,the better you will move with the flow of punchers
i herd the brain is very close to the skull & when you take a hard jaw shot the jaw moves first ,then the head kind of whip's to the side which then makes the brain hit the skull coursing a black out
i try to keep on the move ,bob & weave etc its harder to hit a moving target
if you notice the really bad knockouts the head is moving towards the punch making the punch even harder,,a flash knock down is mostly from a good shot catching you of balance

 

I was about to say grow a set of balls, sounds patronizing but most guys look away or are too concerned with everything and eventually getting rocked from shots they're not prepared to take. But BB said it way better, you need to increase your awareness, look at your opponent. Experience ties into that as well, get plenty of good sparring in.

 

Quality sparring is the most important thing for any boxer

 

Chew really tough foods like gammon fat or those chocolates REISIN, They take a good 5 mins to get soft.