Thomas Hearns knocked out Duran 30 years ago today.

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This is the best knockout of all time. Tommy Hearns was just awesome at 154 knocking out Roberto Duran.. Two legends fighting and a great result. And both of them were champions. Thomas Hearns at WBC and Roberto Duran of the WBA.

 

Probably my favorite ko ever. The sound the punch makes is chilling.

 

Scary k.O

hearns taps the body with 2 light jabs than comes over the top with that straight right from hell

 

Well said. I just rewatched it. It doesn't even look real, the speed and sound of it is insane.

 

One of the most savage KO's of all time.

 

When you consider what Duran went on to achieve after this loss, in addition to the fact that no one else was ever able to even knock him over, not even when he was fifty years old and then consider that most people place Duran amongst the ten greatest fighters of all time then an argument can probably be made for this being the single greatest KO of all time. It's certainly one of them.

 

More than that.

This is the very fight that first got me into boxing.

I didn't see it live, I saw the replay, just by chance, on World of Sport the following morning. I didn't know anything about either fighter at that time, but I'd never seen anything like it. Hearns was mesmerizing, I'd never seen anyone move like that before and then the knockout. Boom! It was electrifying.

I'd seen boxing before and I knew about Ali and a few other famous names, but this was something else, I'd never seen anything quite like this and the whole thing really captured my imagination. I've been hooked on boxing ever since.

I was thirteen years old at the time and Hearns is still my favourite boxer today.

 

:deal

 

Awesome knockout, although I don't consider it a "one-punch knockout" like people often mention it as. He was dropped twice in round 1 and was already hurt in the 2nd before that final right hand. As the commentator said, "Duran was fighting off instinct". He had eaten a big right hand about 15 seconds earlier as well.

The jabs to the body were mentioned...Hearns was a very good body puncher and that doesn't get talked about much, probably because it gets overlooked due to his deadly straight right. He had an excellent left hook to the body.

The 2nd knockdown of Duran was from a bodypunch. Duran was throwing a shot too and actually jumped in the air when he was hit

 

It still lives in my memory today. Hearns was the first and only one who knocked out Duran with that brutal and beautiful striaght right hand.

Duran fell on the floor like a giant three was cut by a chain saw.