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What are the best ever 1st round wins in the history of the sport?

Here are a few

Liston - Paterson I
Liston - Paterson II

Tyson - Spinks

Smith - Witherspoon

Nunn - Kalambay

Nelson - Cowdell

Carter - Griffith

Dempsey - Fulton


I'd go for Carter's win. Griffith eventually proved hismelf the bettter man which in a way makes the first result more impressive. Griffith si also the greatest fighter to have been on the worng end of this result.

Other examples and opinions?

Al "Bummy" Davis belted out Bob Montgomery in just over a minute at The Garden.A big upset.
For awhile it was the fastest main event ko at that venue.

Lew Jenkins made his bones by knocking out Tippy Larkin in the first round , also at The Garden.

I liked Tua Ruiz

Pascual Perez KO in one over Dai Dower

Ezzard wrote: I'd go for Carter's win. Griffith eventually proved hismelf the bettter man which in a way makes the first result more impressive. Griffith si also the greatest fighter to have been on the worng end of this result.

- Mike Spinks was undefeated and never been down in his life, also being rated slightly higher in Ibro's LH rankings than Griffith is in welt rankings as I recall.

Personally, I put Tua's blast out of Ruiz and Moorer near top with most anyone's.

One could argue that Carter's feat was more impressive since Carter was a lesser fighter than Tyson, so then, enter Flynn KO 1 Dempsey to just get into legacy comparisons. Of course Jack wasn't yet Dempsey yet in reality, but lack of context doesn't seem to be a handicap on this forum, so, there it is........... 8)

Expug wrote:Al "Bummy" Davis belted out Bob Montgomery in just over a minute at The Garden.A big upset.
For awhile it was the fastest main event ko at that venue.

Lew Jenkins made his bones by knocking out Tippy Larkin in the first round , also at The Garden.

Great picks...

Liston managing the same thing twice was pretty amazing.

I'll chip in with the obvious: Louis-Schmeling II.

And while I don't know how "impressive" it is, Ali-Liston II is one we still talk about a lot.

Ken Norton was involved in an impressive trio of KO (or KO by) 1's with Bobick, Shavers, and Cooney. The last of those was the only one I saw coming. Bobick was undefeated and seemed to be pretty tough going in, while Shavers was considered finished after the first Holmes fight.

Gerrie Coetzee came out of nowhere to knock out Leon Spinks in round one. That was pretty impressive at the time.

roy jones-montell griffin 2, the jones interview after the fight was crazy. i've never seen a fighter so pissed off but yet so in control in the ring. this is when roy became my favorite fighter.

interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmO2cxU8zs

BoxBuzz wrote:I liked Tua Ruiz

Me too

max baer was semi-retired when pat comiskey was being being built up as a promising heavy...so they got maxie to lace them on again, hoping it would give comiskey a good win over a name who wasn't dangerous. maxie jumped out of his corner when the bell rang and flattened patrick in the first.

earnie shaver had that fat record of kayoes and jerry quarry was kind of a "get past him" gatekeeper of the heavyweight title contenders. saw that on on closed circuit tv. shavers rushed out and quarry met him mid ring and shavers got nailed and out. a replay did show that earnie got a good shot in but quarry didn't flinch.

Other than ones mentioned.

Marvis Frazier vs. Holmes/Tyson, Smith-Weaver

One that might not be mentioned Sugar Ray Leonard-Andy Price! At the time the undefeated Leonard met Price, Price was ranked and had wins over the two present world champions Palomino and Cuevas. After Leonard stopped him in the first he replied, I like it when opponents cooperate like this!

williams-quintana

no-one expected that coming esspecially as quintana survived 12 round with him the fight before

Hearns - Schuler
Hagler - Caveman Lee
Benn - Barkley (although TKO due to 3-knockdown rule)
Jones - Griffin 2
McClellan - Jackson 2