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Even ATGs usually have something like weaknesses in their games.
No single attribute is necessary to become a boxing ATG, other than chin, and a man named Thomas Hearns has even thrown that category into doubt. Still, chin is without doubt the single quality most often possessed and needed by every ATG. An ATG does not necessarily have a good jab, a good hook, a good cross, good footwork, etc., et al, but he had better have a darned good chin.
A rare fighter is the ATG, but an ATG without a great chin is even more rare. It is possible Roy Jones was another exception, but we are not here to argue that case right now.
The point is, though, that every great fighter usually has a few weaknesses, or at least some areas where their abilities are less than superlative. Those are what we are looking for here.
As examples we give Jones and Hearns as ATGs with mediocre chins (incidentally, the most rare breed of ATG) who were good enough in other areas to compensate for less than stellar beards.
No single attribute is necessary to become a boxing ATG, other than chin, and a man named Thomas Hearns has even thrown that category into doubt. Still, chin is without doubt the single quality most often possessed and needed by every ATG. An ATG does not necessarily have a good jab, a good hook, a good cross, good footwork, etc., et al, but he had better have a darned good chin.
A rare fighter is the ATG, but an ATG without a great chin is even more rare. It is possible Roy Jones was another exception, but we are not here to argue that case right now.
The point is, though, that every great fighter usually has a few weaknesses, or at least some areas where their abilities are less than superlative. Those are what we are looking for here.
As examples we give Jones and Hearns as ATGs with mediocre chins (incidentally, the most rare breed of ATG) who were good enough in other areas to compensate for less than stellar beards.
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