Best first round knock outs

[Ruthless-RKO]

Damn!

You went there..

[Deserter]

Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

[THEBUTCH]

Could be because it was on the undercard of Marvin Hagler's out & out war with John Mugabi.

Hearns didn't show any ill effects of his defeat to Hagler. Shuler went down like he'd been taken out with a shot gun !!

[MasterG]

You knew before the bell rang who was going to get knocked out there.

[MasterG]

Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

[JC]

First fight I ever watched was Bruno stopping Jesse Furgeson in 1.

Two the felt shocking at the time: Michael Jennings KO’ing the hard as nails Jimmy Vincent in the first and Kiko Martinez seeming to come from nowhere to stop the highly touted Bernard Dunne in front of a home crowd.

Best one round fight I can remember would be Ricardo Torres vs Kendall Holt.

[Coco]

Damn!

You went there..

Shouldn't have been there, but had the balls to do it

[margaret thatcher]

Mike Tyson v Marvis Frazier.

i kinda feel for marvis, he was a solid fighter (world am champ, several decent wins) but only remembered for his brutal ko losses. he was better than a lot of cruiser world champs and couldve done well there.

[margaret thatcher]

wow! big upset. love did well to get through those early torrid moments as the heavy hands of homicide henry came down on him

[paultom]

Thomas Hearns' explosive demolition of James Shuler.

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

Those body shots were brutal

[THEBUTCH]

Considering the bout lasted a mere 60 seconds the Hitman dished out a lot of punishment !

[Coco]

Great call. For some reason it gets overlooked a lot.

Let's see the action.

Those body shots were brutal

Such a tall fella, with such long arms, and whipped them in with such speed

[THEBUTCH]

Imagine what Tommy would do to the middleweight division now

[KiwiRider]

Imagine what Tommy would do to the middleweight division now

Sadly it would suck just as much. No point having one top tier guy plowing through the rest of them.
Middleweight was always good because there were three or four fantastic fighters at any one time who fought each other, often repeatedly.

[MasterG]

Azumah Nelson v Pat Cowdell.

[NazNaci1]

Azumah Nelson is often underrated but what a boxer-puncher.

[paultom]

Azumah Nelson v Pat Cowdell.

That one actually shocked me at the time

[JamesPhilips]

Maskaev McCall

[Jimmy2025]

Tua v Ruiz

Scary knockout

[MightyWarrior]

[Switch hitter]

Jon Thaxton vs Scap iron Ryan.....

[nmhz]

Tua v Ruiz

Scary knockout

Came here to post this. Legendary

[margaret thatcher]

was that the end of john ruiz the box and mover, and the birth of john ruiz the hugger

[Jimmy2025]

was that the end of john ruiz the box and mover, and the birth of john ruiz the hugger

To some extent, yes. I always had a lot of respect for Ruiz for bouncing back from that knockout. Not many could come back from that and still achieve plenty. He adapted. Not a pretty style, of course.

[Syntax Error]

Mike Tyson v Marvis Frazier.

i kinda feel for marvis, he was a solid fighter (world am champ, several decent wins) but only remembered for his brutal ko losses. he was better than a lot of cruiser world champs and couldve done well there.

Agreed.

I also believe that his father mismanaged him.

Marvis was a decent boxer, but Smokin Joe tried to turn him into a mini me.

Probably didn't want his son fighting like Muhammad Ali.