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Which is your favorite come from behind knockout win?

The history of boxing has a lot of come from behind KO wins. That's the beauty of the sport. That sometimes when things are dreary and there's no hope, a lucky punch, bang! Happens and win the fight.

A salute to those men that didn't give up when the stakes were high and hopeless.

Corrales' comeback win against Castillo is probably the most dramatic I've seen in real time.

Jorge Castro's comeback win against John David Jackson deserves a shout. Pretty sure he had lost every round, and was severely cut with the doctor threatening a stoppage at the time he got that KO.

Corrales Castillo was my favourite too

Few that come to mind

Chavez vs Taylor
Jackson vs Graham (not late in the fight but crazy KO)
Toney vs Nunn
Froch vs Taylor
Wood vs Conlan recently

JC wrote: ↑09 May 2026, 14:22 Corrales Castillo was my favourite too

Few that come to mind

Chavez vs Taylor
Jackson vs Graham (not late in the fight but crazy KO)
Toney vs Nunn
Froch vs Taylor
Wood vs Conlan recently

Jackson vs Graham definitely counts though because it was all Graham up until that 1 shot that ended it. They were talking about potentially stopping it in Graham's favor a few moments earlier.

Archie Moore rallying to stop Yvonne Durelle comes to mind

That was a wild fight.
I remember watching Weaver knocking out Tate in the 15th round. Tate had the win in a bag. He wins and he probably has a unification fight against Holmes. Instead, he gets knocked out cold. That was a shocker.

Arnold Taylor came back from 4 knockdowns by Romeo Anaya to KO him the 14th.

Expug wrote: ↑09 May 2026, 16:58 Archie Moore rallying to stop Yvonne Durelle comes to mind

This is the one.

Joey Maxim TKO 13 Sugar Ray Robinson

Never understood why LaMotta's win over Dauthuille never gets remembered. Don't think I remember anyone ever talking about it. that a dramatic, desperation knockout form one of the greats.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑11 May 2026, 20:58 Never understood why LaMotta's win over Dauthuille never gets remembered. Don't think I remember anyone ever talking about it. that a dramatic, desperation knockout form one of the greats.

Probably because the only way you can see it is in fictional form on a movie that came out almost 30 years after the actual fight.

Dec 12, 1969 at MSG: George Chuvalo KOs Jerry Quarry

Oscar Albarado KO15 Koichi Wajima
Guty Espadas KO13 Alfonso Lopez
Jerry Quarry KO9 Lorenzo Zanon

One of the best I’ve seen is Micky Ward after getting shelled round after round by Alfonso Sanchez , rallied to take him out with a body shot.
Undercard of Delahoya vs Whitaker.

Jorge Castro v John David Jackson, 9th round, 1994. Jackson was 32-0, a two-weight beltholder and pitching a shutout before he got caught by Castro seconds before it looked like the ref was going to stop the fight in Jackson’s favor. Jackson never won a meaningful fight after that

Some great examples listed.

Felix Sturm was well ahead before being taken out in the 10th by Javier Castillejo

scartissue wrote: ↑20 May 2026, 13:31 Oscar Albarado KO15 Koichi Wajima
Guty Espadas KO13 Alfonso Lopez
Jerry Quarry KO9 Lorenzo Zanon

I remember the Guty Espadas of Mexico fight with Alfonso Lopez of Panama. What a fight. A very entertaining scrap that I will see again on tape.

Chavez vs Taylor by far. But should be stopped earlier

Cent0089 wrote: ↑21 May 2026, 15:33 Chavez vs Taylor by far. But should be stopped earlier

From round ten on, Julio Cesar Chavez was giving Meldrick Taylor some terrific shots to the body and head. It was detrimental for Taylor's downfall. He was never the same fighter after that fight even if he would have won by decision. That fight took a lot of Taylor.

Would have been interesting if Duva doesn't distract Taylor while the referee is talking to him after he got up.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑11 May 2026, 21:03

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑11 May 2026, 20:58 Never understood why LaMotta's win over Dauthuille never gets remembered. Don't think I remember anyone ever talking about it. that a dramatic, desperation knockout form one of the greats.

Probably because the only way you can see it is in fictional form on a movie that came out almost 30 years after the actual fight.

I faintly remember seeing highlights of this long before Youtube.