Are fighters using a thick goatee for padding?

[PACnPBFsuck]

Berto had a thick goatee last night but people never said anything about Haye when he fought Wlad.

During the fight
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Weeks before the fight.

[UglyPug]

That, and using it to inflict further damage on cuts. Also, fighters in general with coarse hair can use it as an abrasive to rub it against cuts. I noticed Livingston Bramble used his dreads to make Mancini's cuts worse.

But at the same time, a big ole' bald head like Bradley can be used to open cuts and cause swelling.

[PACnPBFsuck]

That, and using it to inflict further damage on cuts. Also, fighters in general with coarse hair can use it as an abrasive to rub it against cuts. I noticed Livingston Bramble used his dreads to make Mancini's cuts worse.

But at the same time, a big ole' bald head like Bradley can be used to open cuts and cause swelling.

I know Harold said something about it last night, Berto was in close enough to cause damage with beard, but Haye never got that close, he just fell to the mat on his own will.

As long as the heads make contact it doesn't matter if it's bald or full amount of hair.

[bojangles1987]

If a fighter who usually doesn't have a goatee grows one, I think of it the same way I do fighters who get tattoos. They are just trying to convince themselves they tough.

[jri9d0]

I forgot where I read this but I remember somewhere where DLH use to put in his contracts that his opponent couldn’t grow a goatee yet his punk a s s would show up fight night with a five o’clock shadow goatee, WTF?

[edgarg]

It used to ne mandatory that no beards were allowed, not plaited hair etc, But so many were grwoingthem it seems tome that that rule just became eclipsed by being ignored.

A beard gan dring into a guy's eye or tenderise his skin,a and plaited hair is as hard as the head itself, and the braids have an adrasive effect like coarse sandpaper on an eye injury or bruise.

They should BOTH be seriously banned. They are as bad as having overwrapped bandages, actually a lot worse.

[Check]

I seriously thought facial hair was banned from boxing. It wasn't until about a decade or so I noticed fighters being able to sport anything more than like a 5 oclock shadow. IMO, facial hair should be banned. It does add a bit of padding and I never thought about it but like one poster said it could effect cuts. Think about when you have a cut and rub your arm against it. When hair gets in it, it hurts like a b1tch.