Examples Of When A Puncher Has KO'd A More Skilled Boxer

Graham vs Jackson and Jackson vs Castro spring to mind.

There are tons more examples though. It's not exactly rare.

 

Jackson vGraham,Jones v Laing x2.There must be thousands!

 

Foreman vs Norton

 

Barkley vs Hearns I

 

Hearns vs Barkley
Lewis vs McCall
Lewis vs Rahman
Rahman vs Tua
Maskaev vs Tua
Jones vs Tarver
Jones vs Johnson
Tszyu vs Phillips
Curry vs Honeyghan
Curry vs McCallum
Nunn vs Toney
Graham vs Julian Jackson
Norris vs Julian Jackson
Norris vs Brown
Taylor vs Froch
Groves vs Froch
John Davis Jackson vs Castro
Starling vs Molinares (if this one counts)
Pacquiao vs Torrecampo
Forrest vs Mayorga
Khan vs Prescott
Khan vs Garcia

 

As others have said, there are countless examples of the old puncher's chance resulting in the better boxing being beaten inside-schedule.

A different angle might be: fights in which the puncher has managed to beat the boxer on points with the obvious factor being their power offsetting the other guy's better skills - because in theory, it should be rarer for the puncher to win a decision against the boxer than for them to simply KO them.

I can think of a couple of examples where raw power was enough to beat the better boxer via decision over twelve, usually because it resulted in multiple 10-8 (or 10-7) rounds.

Julio Cesar Vasquez beating a young Winky could be one, and more recently David Lemieux beating Hassan N'Dam N'Jikam. In both cases the fights were decided by knockdowns; the 'boxers' both arguably won more rounds, but the puncher won his rounds often by two or three point margins, which made the difference.

 

Liston over Patterson twice.

 

Bailey ko Mike Jones.

 

Disagree with some of these. Froch was more skilled than Taylor, for example.

 

Stevenson/Dawson is a big big standout from the modern game for me.

Stevenson is a one trick pony. Chad has much better fundamentals and is the better all around boxer. Just got caught cold.

Rahman/Lewis.

Hatton/Kosta.

Margarito/Cotto.

 

Are you mental? Jermaine is much more skilled than Carl. Carl can't even keep his hands up, ffs. Take his granite chin away and he'd been lucky to get to Euro level.

 

Ibeabuchi - Byrd

 

So why was Taylor comfortably outboxing Froch and well ahead until the stoppage?

 

Jermain cocked his right hand back and didn't know how to throw every punch, work inside, etc. He was athletic and had a good jab. Froch understood boxing a lot better but had slow hands. Both had limited defense.