Does Having a Beard Cushion a Punch?

[Jewish-Reptile]

amir khan is now growing a beard...

Is he taking tips from your mother how to prune it ?

[HughJass]

I've been clocked on the chin with a beard a many of times,it don't help lolol.

[Sparked_26]

A beard won't help.

Makes you look like a hipster.

Subconsciously even the judges would be dying to see the bearded chin smashed.

A massive beard does obstruct the jaw line though. I always think that it would be more difficult to do a jaw thrust and maintain/open someone's airway if they were badly knocked out and were snoring.

[alexguiness]

This question is like asking if a T shirt stops a bullet...SMH

[Graz]

A beard shouldn't help. It's the concussive force of the punch that forces the brain to hit the inside of the skull. It's kind of like asking will water protect a submarine from a depth charge. Nope.

[gauze]

This question is like asking if a T shirt stops a bullet...SMH

maybe not a bullet, but definitely punches to the body!

[-PBP-]

If it did, every fighter would try and grow a beard.

[Tom Cruise]

As a man with a beard myself, i have never been Knocked out.

Take that as you will.

100% success rate. Beard = No KO.

[UNBIASED BOXING]

The beard absorbs some of the shock of the force when a punch lands, but probably not by much. It might help, but very little, I'd imagine.


Think of it when amateur boxers wear headgear, or sparring in a ring. You wear headgear to help absorb some of the shock of each punch.