What is the fastest Knock out in Amateur history?

[squarering]

Real, Just a note, You may want to check your boys headgrear out to make sure the USA aproved tag is still on it. Unless it's in the back I didn't see it and I would hate to see a hard working young guy get up in the ring and have to run around looking for another head gear at the last minute.

[Dennis]

The ref didn't see the kid getting hurt. When he saw that the kid was too tired to defend himself he gave him an 8 count. The coach then retired his boxer because the kid was no longer keeping his hands up. In this bout the kid kept throwing punches back until the 3rd round right before the 8 count.

Always good to hear another opinion. I didn't see the red corner as being tired, I saw him as hurt, but I was also there and that may be influencing my opinion also. Thanks for the quick feedback! Dennis, do you feel that if this fight was allowed to go to the 3rd round, that the previous post's boxer from Region 2 should have at least gotten a 2nd eight count?

That is up to the referee's discretion. Remember just because a ref can give 2 8-counts in a round (assuming no prior 8-counts in prior rounds) without stopping a bout doesn't mean that is always the best thing to do. If the ref sees that a boxer is getting hurt, allowing the boxer to continue to get hit more isn't a good decision. I think the ref thought the boxer was being hit too much with clean punches and was being hurt. The ref is also the person in the best position to see the boxer's eyes and see how they look. Sometimes a boxer's eyes won't be focusing properly and the boxer is in a daze. The ref will see it, but the fans in the audience and the coach in the corner can't.

[Tarquin Tarpaulin IV]

We had a lad, a middleweight of around 17 years old who clean ko'd his opponent with the first punch. At that time I believe the amateur record was reckoned to be around 13 seconds including the count and it was felt that he'd beaten that. Unfortunately this was pre video in the 80's so there's no record of it.

Very similar to the controversial pro knockout where the guy goes to touch gloves and gets poleaxed except our guy followed the accepted protocol 8)

We once ran a show where another 17 year old boxer of ours ko'd his opponent and we had the rather distressing 5 or so minutes with the medics in the ring.

In the very next bout another of our boys done exactly the same thing!

What happened to them. All 3 punchers had no dedication and no stamina and struggled past the first round

[g4ran]

My former boxing trainer a Gentleman by the name of Ken "the fighting preacher" Lawrence a featherweight and one time champion of Great Britain held the fastest Amateur knockout record record in 1956 with a time of 11 seconds including the count, may he R.I.P.