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At a lower level, Wayne Alexanders Ko of Takaloo in 2004 was pretty chilling. Other favourite of mine were Julian Jackson vs Herol Graham, Tommy Hearns vs Roberto Duran, and Bob Foster vs Mike Quarry, although ive only seen the ko punch of the final two.

Jackson -v- Graham

Hearns -v- Shuler

Marciano -v- Walcott

..ezzard...i'm not positive about the guy's name either....but fitzgerald seems right. like you, i loved that one!! the punk was trying to make a fool out of the "old, washed up ex-champ"....and duran cold cocked the smart ass. has anyone ever heard of him again?

Anyone see Curry KO McCrory in their 80's Welter unification fight....vicious speed and power

Jaclem wrote:..ezzard...i'm not positive about the guy's name either....but fitzgerald seems right. like you, i loved that one!! the punk was trying to make a fool out of the "old, washed up ex-champ"....and duran cold cocked the smart ass. has anyone ever heard of him again?

Hi Jaclem

Poetic justice or something like that. I guess at least Fitzgerald (if that was his name, maybe he's changed it since to avoid embarassment) gets a mention on these boards from time to time. His fame is cemented...

Benitez-Hope was pretty good too. Great overhand right, perfectly timed.

i can't beleive that nobody remenbers joe louis one punch kos against several contenders.

1. Foster KO4 Tiger
2. Foster KO4 Quarry

Those are my two favourites, and nothing else comes close. Both are strong candidates for the most devastating one punch knockout of all time.

..elmersalsa..check out page one...brockton boy, much to my sorrow, brought up the obvious one...walcott kayo of ezzard. it was a left hook, incidentally.....not an uppercut. it hurt me a lot more than it did ezzard....at least when we talked years after it . ezz said it was all in the past....i was still grieving.

What makes a great KO? Is it the punch or the reaction of the KO'd guy as he falls/hits the canvas?

And, which is your favourite KO punch to see? I think there always something very dramatic about an uppercut.

Jaclem wrote:..elmersalsa..check out page one...brockton boy, much to my sorrow, brought up the obvious one...walcott kayo of ezzard. it was a left hook, incidentally.....not an uppercut. it hurt me a lot more than it did ezzard....at least when we talked years after it . ezz said it was all in the past....i was still grieving.

Jaclem

What were Ezzard's thoughts on Walcott? They fought one another quite few times.

Ezzard wrote:What makes a great KO? Is it the punch or the reaction of the KO'd guy as he falls/hits the canvas?

And, which is your favourite KO punch to see? I think there always something very dramatic about an uppercut.

I think it's both. I mean if a guy did a silly dance and fell out of the ring without a punch hitting him, it wouldn't be devastating. If a guy was hit with a wicked punch but didn't react, that wouldn't be so devastating either.

Personally I like left hook knockouts the most, but they have to be thrown with a certain motion. Look at the one Foster knocks out Tiger with... That was a thing of beauty. The way he whipped it around was awesome.

what is everyones all time favorite one punch KO?

if u had to pick ONLY one?

BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:what is everyones all time favorite one punch KO?

if u had to pick ONLY one?

Has to be Foster-Tiger for me.

im guessing most users will guess my pick is marciano-walcott I.......



WRONG!


my pick is walcott-charles III, everything about that knockout was special.

BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:im guessing most users will guess my pick is marciano-walcott I.......



WRONG!


my pick is walcott-charles III, everything about that knockout was special.

Noooooooo.... Don't say it's true....

Walcott-Charles is a great pick. Probably the best executed knockout I've seen. It was so smooth how Walcott dipped, rolled and scooped up Charles' chin with the uppercut. Well it started as an uppercut, but finished as a hook. We'll call it a 45º.

But I just prefer Bob Foster's knockout of Dick Tiger. Nobody had ever done that to Tiger. It was very similar to Hearns-Duran in a way... The tall, slim, power puncher versus the short, stocky swarmer who was fighting above his natural weight class but had a granite chin. Like nobody had ever treated Tiger that way, nobody had treated Duran that way either. Even the knockout punches were similar. Foster's was a left hook and Hearns' was a right cross, but the motion of the punches was the same, the way they added a certain whipping motion to it. Anybody who has seen the two knockouts will know what I mean.

..elmer salsa...it was almost impossible to get ezzard to talk about his boxing career.....he wasn't a braggart and i suppose no fighter wants to discuss his losses. the only thing i can recall getting out of him about walcott was along the lines of "smart fighter" or "clever"...and something about them "seeing each other a lot" by which i think he met in the ring.

best one punch kayo ever. so many good ones...and most are listed here. my pick would be left hook that sugar ray kayoed fullmer with in their second fight. so fast it's hard to see even in slow motion. so hard that it knocked the tough, iron-chinned fullmer cold.

that walcott/charles kayo keeps haunting me....it just won't go away...it's like john ruiiz....it just won't go away!!!!

Jaclem... Robinson-Fullmer is right up there, definitely. But it wasn't a blindingly fast punch as you say. It was just well timed and delivered perfectly. You can see it clearly land on film. The reason it might be a little harder to see is because a camera flash went off in the background just as the punch landed, as with the Marciano-Walcott knockout punch in their first fight.

How about these three:

Mike Weaver over Big John Tate. Tate was out before he hit the floor face first.

Patterson over Ingo in their second fight. How long did Ingo lay on the canvas? Remeber how his leg twitched?

Nino Benvenuti over Luis Rodriguez. One of the most picture perfect left hooks I have ever seen.

doubleM...it still seems super fast to me but i won't argue. the tape usually seen has an angle that's not quite as good as on a film that shows it from two different angles. the tape is from the tv broadcast. some fights films were made for theatres...though not always released, and this is an example. the first foreman/frazier fight is an example.

but..okay...i'm not really saying you're wrong..i just have a different opinion of it. when it was declared by a group of sportswriters and boxing authorities to be the "best left hook every thrown"...on a tv show... fullmer said that night when they showed the clip that after all those years he finally saw it. and "of all the great left hooks in history, the best one had to be against me."

that doesn't make it the fastest...fighters seldom see the one that hits them.

whatever, as i read this thread and look at the punches mentioned i am glad once more that i never became a professional boxer.

Decagon wrote:

THE DANCING MASTER wrote:Patterson over Ingo in their second fight. How long did Ingo lay on the canvas? Remeber how his leg twitched?

Johansson was only on the canvas for 15 or 20 seconds. Patterson was afraid that he was dead, so he helped him up.

didnt patterson helpd ellis up after he knocked him down(incorrectley ruled a slip)? that floyd such a classy guy.


but that patterson-ingo KO was one of the best, the leg twitching was very scary



i was watching highlights today and there was one highlight where patterson lands a left hook and the guys out like a light falling straight back to the canvas and patterson lands a right. it was a pre 1956 knockout i believe, but i dont know which one.

You guys think Patterson-Johansson II was scary?

Check out Foster-Rondon. It's not a one punch knockout (unusual for Bob), but it sure is brutal. Foster sets Rondon up brilliantly, slips his jab and counters with a right to the jaw. As Rondon is falling, he instinctively grabs the top rope, allowing Foster to crack him with two short left hooks to the jaw. Rondon is out cold and looks like a sleeping baby - his right foot was twitching, his skull was broken in two places, and he had to be carried out on a stretcher.