Iron-chinned fighters getting knocked out.

Erik Morales. Jorge Castro.

 

Ray Robinson KO 5 Gene Fullmer

 

Dick Tiger getting KO'd by Bob Foster is another.

 

Briscoe-Valdez

 

Bennie Briscoe, in his second bout against Valdez. When people talk about the hardest-hitting Middles of all time, Valdez is always far too easily forgotten. The man hit like a train. Near enough peak versions of Hagler and Monzon still couldn't manage to do what Valdez managed against Briscoe there.

Keeping with the Middles, although it was probably his tight defence rather than an unbelievable chin which takes as much credit, Kalambay being iced in one by Nunn was a bit of a shocker. Kalambay was a hard man to get to and Nunn was no single-punch knockout artist. Not a freak result in terms of Nunn winning, but a bit of a freak occurrence in terms of how he won, I reckon.

 

Bat Nelson by Owen Moran (God only knows how).

 

Pac got knocked out by JMM

 

Also Joey Maxim by Curtis Sheppard in less than a minute.

 

Harry Greb KOed by Joe Chip

(Greb was outweighed by 16 pounds in this fight.)

 

Tyson getting knocked out by Douglas. (Although it was a pretty sustained beating leading up to it).

And, my man, Smokin' Bert Cooper once had a chin or Iron (See his fights with Ray Mercer and Evander Holyfield). But, it seemed to decline rapidly (possibly due to drugs). Late in his carrer he went from Iron Chinned to not being able to take a punch well at all. The fight game is not kind to the skull and brain.

And, although it wasn't a knockout, the knockdown Frankie Randall scored on Concrete jawed JCC senior was still shocking.

 

Finnegan against Foster, albeit an exhaustion\accumulation stoppage rather than a clean knockout.

Doug Dewitt getting mangled by Quinones and kalambay was a big shock at the time.

Lindell Holmes crushing the life from teak tough journeyman Sanderline Williams, when every other contender or big punching middle of the era had failed to do so.

 

Yes, my first thought.

It was a hell of a punch and it would have to be to cleanly knock out a tough man like Tiger.

 

I've drawn a complete blank.

Did Bonavena get put down for a clean, 10 count knockout? If so, I've completely forgotten it.

If you are counting that three knockdown thingy by Ali at MSG, I sure wouldn't consider that a true knockout, even if the record book says otherwise.

Ali wouldn't go to a neutral corner, the ref lost control, and the 2nd and 3rd knockdowns were largely a result of Bonavena not being given a chance to get fully up before Ali was on him.