I don't know, I suppose that's possible. I'm thinking more that some guys were either not real good at slipping punches or just TOOK punches because they thought they were good at it and therefore took more damaging punches than some other boxers. If you remember in olden times it was often said about one boxer or another, "He can really take a punch." Maybe those guys weren't taking them as well as we thought. My first thoughts are Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, both of whom took a lot of punches because they could handle them.
