Memorable opening punches in a fight

[nobleart1978]

Ali hitting Foreman with a straight right. First punch of the fight. Made Foreman realise he had a real fight on his hands.

[JamesPhilips]

Lol WTF was this

[margaret thatcher]

big jeep later did decently in the movies, i think he played bane in one of the bat mans and had a bunch of celebrities at his funeral

also 0 percent chance that he was really 35-0 as an amateur like they said, the guy clearly had barely been hit before

[jameswilson]

Not ko shots but when I think of first jabs that sent the opponents head snapping back I think Haye vs Bonin and I’m sure the first jab Breidis Prescott landed on Amir Khan had him and everyone else associated with Khan thinking ‘oh sh1t.’

[margaret thatcher]

ah yes, the famous prescott jab

[stujones]

I remember the Hamed vs Lawal one - I thought there was something fishy going on..... the sheer arrogance, the "cutting some moves" at the start as if it was set up that the first shot would be a KO.

[Terminator666]

Nunn v kalamby

[Flump]

Not a ko punch or anything, but Herol Graham going to touch gloves with Chris Johnson at the first bell, them drilling him with a straight left.

That set the tone for probably, along with Holmes v Mercer, my favourite 'old manning' victorious fight for a veteran.

[Kilburn]

Not a ko punch or anything, but Herol Graham going to touch gloves with Chris Johnson at the first bell, them drilling him with a straight left.

That set the tone for probably, along with Holmes v Mercer, my favourite 'old manning' victorious fight for a veteran.

That’s funny I was just thinking about that exact Herol Graham moment yesterday.

[THEBUTCH]

David Haye's ultra quick blitzing of Alexander Gurov whem winning the European Cruiserweight title

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nqGYMnVao

[THEBUTCH]

I loved that lightening quick blowout of Johnny Ellis by Nicky Piper.

Liked to catch them cold did Piper.

[JamesPhilips]

Khan flooring Salita deserves a mention

Good undercard names

https://boxrec.com/en/event/586973

[Ruthless-RKO]

Khan flooring Salita deserves a mention

Good undercard names

https://boxrec.com/en/event/586973

Remember Ronnie. Marks older brother.

Some very good names. Frank had them all.

[JamesPhilips]

Khan flooring Salita deserves a mention

Good undercard names

https://boxrec.com/en/event/586973

Remember Ronnie. Marks older brother.

Some very good names. Frank had them all.

Yeah look at the number of world champions and world challengers on that bill. Amazing really. And commonwealth / British titles

[Ezzard]

Douglas on Tyson. He just came out and started swinging.

[Delta Jay]

Didn’t Nathan Cleverly have a record for an extremely quick KO? Was that a title defence?


Edit: it was this one. Ouch.

[jameswilson]

Khan had another really quick KO which won me a lot of money. Against that Yank who said AJ went through his ex wife so Khan threw water over him in the presser. That guy got on the scales and clearly hadn’t trained and was clearly tiny at the weight. I stuck £100 each on round 1 and round 2 at something like 30/1 each and Khan blasted him in a minute.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Khan had another really quick KO which won me a lot of money. Against that Yank who said AJ went through his ex wife so Khan threw water over him in the presser. That guy got on the scales and clearly hadn’t trained and was clearly tiny at the weight. I stuck £100 each on round 1 and round 2 at something like 30/1 each and Khan blasted him in a minute.

Phil Lo Greco

[blanca]

The bell went ding and I went dong

[JamesPhilips]

Bruno Eddie Nielson

[jamesmcdonnell]

Khan had another really quick KO which won me a lot of money. Against that Yank who said AJ went through his ex wife so Khan threw water over him in the presser. That guy got on the scales and clearly hadn’t trained and was clearly tiny at the weight. I stuck £100 each on round 1 and round 2 at something like 30/1 each and Khan blasted him in a minute.

Phil Lo Greco

Yeah, what a terrible mismatch that was.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Bruno Eddie Nielson

Amazing how slight bruno looks there - it's obviously quite early in his career, but also compared to some of the big lumps today, he wasn't that big, he did pack on more muscle as he got older, but a lot of the fighters these days look like fat tubs of lard comparatively at heavyweight.

[JamesPhilips]

Bruno Eddie Nielson

Amazing how slight bruno looks there - it's obviously quite early in his career, but also compared to some of the big lumps today, he wasn't that big, he did pack on more muscle as he got older, but a lot of the fighters these days look like fat tubs of lard comparatively at heavyweight.

If you watch a lot of early Bruno fights, he looks significantly slimmer than later on, but it’s also noticeable how much smaller heavyweights were then… Bruno looks enormous and muscular next to his early opponents, even in his ‘slimmer’ days .

[jamesmcdonnell]

Yeah, guys at 240 were the big boys then and few and far between.

Bowe was a giant compared to most around then.

[margaret thatcher]

jack jjohnson was a giant in his day..............at 6 feet 190 pounds. for perspective that's the same height/weight of joe smith on fight night

5'10 185 pound marciano often wasnt much smaller than his opponents

big foreman was a total specimen in his day.............at a paris fury sized 6'3 220

dudes certainly gotten bigger, though perhaps at a cost. conditioning has gone downhill in general, and a lot of the fights are more lazy and filled with single shots. it's become increaasingly rare to find a hw who can box and move and put some combos together at a consistently decent clip for 12, fury and usyk can do it but not many others