KO 1 shockers

Did you mean Greb KO Gunboat Smith? I imagine that wouldda been a shocker.


A few other candidates for this topic:
Langford-Flynn 1
Dempsey-Fulton
Walker-McTigue 2
McAvoy-Risko
Steele-Hostak
Bummy Davis-Bob Montgomery
Sheppard-Maxim 1
Morrow-Moore 1
Lesnevich-Bettina
Bratton-Dykes
Duran-Huertas
Rubin Carter-Floro Fernandez
Jose Torres-Bobo Olson

 

King Tut's kayo of Billy Petrolle in their 5th fight.

 

Damnit. I was going to bring up this one. I was young at the time but in retrospect it seems like it was a shocker.

 

Sub .500 Wild Bill Hanrahan knocking out undefeated Hart in 1901 for the LHW title. Hanrahan was 1-6-2 in his prior 9 fights.

 

Prescott KO Khan.
Stevenson KO Dawson
Ishida KO Kirkland

 

James Page KO 1 Alfred Ankamah
Kofi Jantuah KO 1 Marco Antonio Rubio
Breidis Prescott KO 1 Amir Khan
Amir Khan TKO 1 Dmitriy Salita
Mike Tyson KO 1 Alex Stewart
Jose Ribalta TKO 1 Leon Spinks
Frank Bruno TKO 1 Gerrie Coetzee
Michael Dokes TKO 1 Mike Weaver
Julius Indongo KO 1 Eduard Troyanovsky
Derek Bryant TKO 1 Jorge Luis Gonzalez
Michael Grant KO 1 Jorge Luis Gonzalez
Terry Dunstan KO 1 Alexander Gurov
Virgil Hill TKO 1 Fabrice Tiozzo
Roy Jones jr KO 1 Montell Griffin
Lennox Lewis TKO 1 Andrew Golota
David Tua KO 1 Michael Moorer
Prudencio Cardona KO 1 Antonio Avelar
Sung Kil Moon RTD 1 Hilario Zapata
Hector Camacho jr TKO 1 Harold Warren

 

I sure did.

Thought the other set up fight w/ an old Chacon was another ko1 candidate as well.

 

I sure do remember this one.

It was the first time in my life I had gambled on a guy and picked him to win; without the benefit of seeing his fights. Just read about them and there was hardly an abundance of info on those bouts. But the results were there.

At any rate my thinking was the subtractions from the other guy. Neon Leon in Monaco? I sure thought we were not going to get anything close to an A+ performance. Maybe a B or C.

And all that hype for Leon was based on the Ali result. Great win but Ali had not looked good in quite some time. And I sure did not like that Ledoux bout for Leon whatsoever.

But now Leon--who does get hit--is in there with a hitter. Reputedly a big right hand hitter. And Leon got hit by right hands from Ledoux. Ali had pretty much lost the snap and accuracy of his right hand so it was difficult to guage that.

So I bet on Leon not being 100% for the guy. And there were some bad outside the ring things going on with Leon as well. So thought he was a candidate for a loss here. Thought he would not prepare for the guy--figuring I just beat Ali and there is not much tape on this South African so it should be an easy night's work. No way in the world I thought he'd be in Ali condition & against a big hitter for the first time.

Lots of assumptions. And I do not like doing things that way because just 1 assumption going wrong is enough to change the fight result.

 

Bentt vs Morrison

 

Terry Norris Ko1 John Mugabi.

It was shocking to see the beast who looked made of iron vs Hagler and who up to that point was one of boxings most remorseless knockout artists be taken out with such brutal yet laser like efficiency. Each knockdown was OTT almost video game like as John wobbled around the canvas like a blancmange on a flat plate. The final knockdown i worried Terry had killed him. Mugabi was in hindsight ruined by the Hagler fight than the appalling freak thumbing injury the same year versus Duane Thomas but had remained unbeaten thereafter through 1987/88/89 and was still a KO artist up until the bout with Terry Norris where he lost his world title.

Benn-Barkley was shocking to me too. TBH up to that point t I had felt Benn was inferior to the top Americans. Although he used fouls on the floor and Barkley had recovered well the 3 knockdown rule deprived us of a long war of attrition I think Barkley would have won. Benn steadfastly refused a rematch.

 

I would just like to go on record as saying that this is the first time I’ve seen “blancmange” used in the Classic Forum. Nicely done.

 

Especially great call on Hill, never a big puncher, crushing Tiozzo, a very durable fighter, in one round.