Matchups where a first round KO is likely

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  1. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Yeah, but not by much.
     
  2. janitor

    janitor VIP Member

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    The worst thing that you can say about Marciano's chin, based on the evidence that we have, is that it probably wasn't in the class of Chuvalo and McCall.

    Beyond that all bets are off!
     
  3. janitor

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    Well look at it this way.

    If Lowry really did have him on the point of a knockout, and his chin really didn't improve very much, then he would almost certainly have suffered a stoppage loss as champion.
     
  4. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    No? His chin improved enough to say that he was very tough. However, he wasn't indestructible. He was hurt by Walcott (and dropped), there's no argument for

    Stop singling out tiny parts of my posts. You said that he could possibly walk through Foreman's shots. That's laughable. Especially when you say this, and Chuvalo couldn't.
     
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    young griffo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    His chin was solid as hell. Walcott levelled Charles with a hook similar to what Rocky got tagged with and Marciano got up quick and returned to his brawling ways.

    He’s definitely not the first guy I’d think of when looking at first round KO victims, quite the opposite actually.
     
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  6. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    I don`t think Ray would gone for the KO in the 1st round and Khan`s reach and speed would keep Ray off for a while too.
     
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  7. janitor

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    The Chuvalo fight was stopped because Chuvalo was taking too many unanswered punches.

    It wasn't a failure of his chin per se.
     
  8. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Shannon Briggs v. Floyd Patterson

    Tyson v. Douglas II (of the Holyfield fight)

    Corrie Sanders v. Bruce Seldon

    Cooney v. Leon Spinks
     
  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    All those shots were harder than the shot Moore dropped Marciano with, Foreman was also more powerful than Walcott who dropped Marciano.
     
  10. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Patterson had a better defense than Briggs who would have struggled to land on Floyd compared to the more offensively skilled Liston, Floyd would have landed a lot of power hooks too, he had a massive speed edge on a prime Briggs.
     
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    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Or the other way around, if Lewis went for the KO he would get caught.
     
  12. BELLERS

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    Joshua v Wilder. Either one could horizontal in rnd 1 !
     
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  13. George Crowcroft

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    Neither was Rosario?
     
  14. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    His name is Lennox Lewis not Dominic Breazele.

    But this is just you being the meritless troll that you are.
     
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  15. andrewe

    andrewe Ezekiel 33 banned Full Member

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    well, you're not wrong..