William Dettloff 在去年1月为ESPN写的文章：大卫.图阿的钢铁下巴！

wei1974

英语专业的朋友有空翻译下。我奖赏6元拳币。

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3183478&type=story

David Tua's jaw of steel

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By William Dettloff
Special to ESPN.com

All hail David Tua: King of the iron-chinned fighters.
拳迷都在为大卫.图阿欢呼！铁下巴之王。



David Tua, right, took Lennox Lewis' best shots -- and kept on coming.
大卫.图阿对老刘的重拳大小通吃而屹立不倒，继续战斗！




David Tua never won a world heavyweight title, but in his era, there wasn't a better left hook or a better set of whiskers in the division.

大卫.图阿没有得到过任何一个重量级头衔，但在他的时代的重量级拳坛没人比他的左勾拳更出色，也没人的胡子比他有个性。

Virtually all of the top heavyweights of the last 15 years have been dropped or stopped, some more than once. Not Tua.

Lennox Lewis, at the top of his game, was twice knocked out. Hasim Rahman has been stopped four times; Wladimir Klitschko, three. Ditto Chris Byrd.

Even Evander Holyfield's famously-stubborn chin failed him as he got older, as did the whiskers belonging to Michael Moorer, Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe, Andrew Golota and John Ruiz. All were knocked out or significantly hurt at one time or another.

Oleg Maskaev's been stopped in all five of his losses. Highly rated Sam Peter was dumped three times by Jameel McCline (thrice a KO loser himself) in their recent meeting; though he did hang on to win a decision.

Tua, who turned pro in 1992 and is in the midst of a comeback, not only has never been stopped while compiling a pro record of 49-3-1 (42), he's never been dropped (though Cuban legend Felix Savon stopped him in 1991 in Sydney, Australia -- as an amateur). The closest anyone came was when Rahman knocked him down after the bell sounded to end their rematch in 2003.

\"[Tua] would get hit with big shots that just didn't seem to faze him. I never saw him stunned or hurt,\" said Ronnie Shields, who trained Tua for much of his career. \"The only time he came close was in the first round of his fight with Lennox Lewis when Lennox hit him with a big right hand. That changed David. But otherwise, I never saw him hurt.\"

That includes the thrilling brawl Tua waged with bomb-throwing Ike Ibeabuchi in 1997. The close decision loss was the first defeat of Tua's career, but did nothing to detract from his reputation as owner of arguably the best chin in the business.

\"Ike never hurt David, and he caught him with some really big shots,\" Shields recalled. The brawl set a record for most punches thrown in a heavyweight fight since records were compiled and established both Ibeabuchi and Tua as future heavyweight stars.

Tua's ability to take punches didn't always work in his favor. According to Shields, Tua's main problem was he would start slowly and then wait to land a big punch rather than staying busy. His ability to walk through his opponent's shots abetted that tendency. It also led to some interesting sparring sessions in the early days, when both Tua and Golota were promoted by Main Events.

\"We were training down in Vero Beach, Florida and we let David and Andrew spar together,\" Shields remembered. \"I was training David and Roger Bloodworth was training Andrew. It was like a real fight, back and forth. And then Andrew started hitting David low. David went back at him, hitting Andrew low.

\"They just went back and forth hitting each other low. It was crazy. We had to jump in there and stop them. Andrew was a big, strong guy who could really hit. I think it angered him that he couldn't hurt David even though David was so much smaller than he was. That's why he started hitting him low.\"

Ironically, Bloodworth now trains Tua and has been in the corner for all of the seven wins Tua has scored over limited opposition following a two-year layoff. He sees no degradation in Tua's ability to take big shots without feeling the effects.

\"He never seems to get rattled or hurt in the gym,\" Bloodworth said. \"He has an exceptional chin. It's because of the way he's built. He's got the genetics for it. His neck is as big around as my thigh. And the neck is a fighter's shock absorber.\"

Bloodworth was surprised when Tua, who is now 35 years old, prepared to spar against a 6-foot-10 heavyweight early on in the comeback, and his fighter said he preferred not to wear headgear.

\"[Tua] said 'I don't want to wear it,'\" Bloodworth recalled. \"He said when he's got headgear on he gets too comfortable and doesn't move his head as much.\"

A little attention to defense is never a bad idea for a guy who's walked through punches the way Tua has for 15 years. Even the best shock absorbers wear out eventually.

The Ring's senior writer William Dettloff co-wrote the book \"Box Like The Pros\" with Joe Frazier.

闲着没事

我也奖赏6元拳币，虽然少点

逸清居士

文章写得确实不错，多角度剖析图阿。
我给翻译了，拳币就不要了，为人民服务吧

http://www.quanji.net/bbs/read.php?tid=38676

司马祭酒

图阿的抗击打能力，绝对的世界第一，这点无可辩驳
什么大克的抗击打好，跟巅峰时的图阿比起来，差了很多
大克的抗击打至多也就泰森的档次，还不如泰森
这点从与老刘的交手中就可看出，泰在8回合里所挨的拳头，远多于大克所挨的，
而泰森最后的脸，应该说还没有大克的惨。

再看看图阿对刘王时的脸，谁还敢说大克的抗击打强过图阿？

wei1974

说话要算数，居士笑纳了。