Fighters that have been JTFO

Johnny Paycheck once said the Louis jab was, to his surprise, the most painful shot Joe Louis (or anyone else) had ever caught him with.

 

Rios definitely at the very least shook up Alvarado with a jab in one of their meetings, I think.

 

The beta list, or "JTFD" (boxers that have been dropped or very obviously hurt/rocked by jabs):

• Mike Williams by James Douglas~, June 1988
• Terry Norris by Simon Brown, December 1993
• Tommy Morrison by Lennox Lewis, October 1995
• Jerry Cooper by Floyd Joy Sinclair, January 1997
• Julius Francis by Mike Tyson, January 2000
• Monte Barrett by Wladimir Klitschko, July 2000
• Emanuel Dapidran Pacquiao by Nedal Hussein, October 2000
• Monte Barrett by Nikolai Valuev, October 2006
• James Toney by Samuel Peter, January 2007
• Alfonso Gomez by Miguel Cotto, April 2008
• Joshua Clottey by Miguel Cotto, June 2009
• Robert Guerrero by Joel Casamayor, July 2010
• Guillermo Rigondeaux by Ricardo Cordoba, November 2010
• Osumanu Adama by Gennady Golovkin, February 2014
• Alex Leapai by Wladimir Klitschko, April 2014
• Alexander Johnson by Artur Beterbiev, June 2015
• Carl Frampton by Alejandro González, July 2015
• Kevin Mitchell by Ismael Barroso, December 2015

~ Williams was floored thrice by jabs, but the fourth & deciding knockdown was from a Buster right hand.

...and the updated JTFO list:

• Ernie Schaaf, by Primo Carnera. February 1993
• Osvaldo Ocasio, by Larry Holmes. March 1979
• Mike Foley, by Tommy Morrison. January 1989
• Nigel Benn, by Michael Watson. May 1989
  
• Tony Tucker, by Bruce Seldon. April 1995
  
• Kevin McIntyre, by Kell Brook. November 2008
• Matt Skelton, by Kubrat Pulev. January 2010
• Paul Briggs, by Danny Green. July 2010
• Alexander Dimitrenko, by Kubrat Pulev. May 2012
• Lucian Bot, by Adil Atmari. August 2012*
• Jameel McCline, by Magomed Abdusalamov**. September 2012
• Alexander Ustinov, by Kubrat Pulev. September 2012
• Hector Saldivia, by Kell Brook. October 2012
• Patrick Majewski, by Curtis Stevens. January 2014
• Cedric Agnew, by Sergey Kovalev. March 2014
• Kris Carslaw, by Liam Williams. December 2015
• Arnold Gjergjaj, by David Have. May 2016
• Ezequiel Maderna, by Artur Beterbiev. June 2016
• Julian Williams, by Jermall Charlo***. December 2016
• Agus Kustiawan, by Kittithat Ungsrivongs. January 2018
• Tewa Kiram, by Lucas Matthysse. January 2018
• Nezir Altunkaya, by Denis Lebedev. September 2018

* formerly counted on BoxRec as an official pro bout, later rescinded. Part of the "Bigger's Better" heavyweight Euro tourney, which in retrospect has been deemed semipro, or at least unsanctioned and thus discounted from official records.

** this was a short right hand from the normally orthodox Abdusalamov, but he did morph his stance into southpaw before delivering this blow.

*** the first knockdown in the second round was scored by a single jab, and the finishing salvo in the fourth was punctuated by one - incorrectly cited by some as being a left uppercut, as it was an underhanded jab due to Charlo's proximity & positioning relative to J-Rock, but a jab nonetheless.


Dishonorable mention has to go to "Goral" Adamek, who did full-on chicken dances (but never actually went down) off jabs from two different opponents: Vitali Klitschko & Cristobal Arreola.

 

I could have sworn that Danny Williams, at some point during his long sad descent into "shot beyond all belief with zero remaining punch resistance" territory, had been JTFD at least once. Couldn't find any record of it but did stumble across something..

Wtf is this????
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bo...ar-danny-williams-to-claim-wbu-belt/98141/amp

..and why does it appear to have been stricken from (or never added onto) their pro ledgers on BoxRec? It would have to have been an officially licensed bout to have even a trinket like the WBU title at stake, yeah?

 

I'd be shocked if Quartey had never dropped anybody with his bazooka jab...or if Holmes never did anyone except Ocasio.