Fastest KO win in a HW world title fight?

Brewster vs. Golota.

WBO was not considered major title when Hide had it.

 

herbie hide ko'd damon reed in 52 seconds (wbo)

 

Ok, let's rephrase the question:

Fastest KO win in a legit HW world title fight?

 

If you're talking about a fight that's actually universally recognised as deciding who the best HW is, then it has to be Mike Tyson's KO of Michael Spinks in 90 seconds.

 

louis got schmelling out pretty quickly in the rematch was that shorter than the tyson spinks fight?

 

Most probably Michael Dokes vs Mike Weaver for the WBA HW Title. In other fights, I remember Gerry Cooney and Ken Norton and Tyson against Marvis Frazier.

 

Damn i was about to say james thunder KO win but you said title fight. But i'll still post this

i miss usa tuesday night fight
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Actually, the WBO trinket was too a major title when Hide held it. That is why Hide is credited as an official world champion during that reign. The WBC, IBF, WBA, and WBO belts were just as much deemed major heavyweight belts then just as they are now. So Hide-Reed holds the ultimate record of fastest heavyweight knockout (excluding fights for the lineal crown) because even though it had the same stoppage time (52 sec) as Brewster-Golota, it took place before the latter, and thus slightly edges it out and is in first place on the dubious list.

 

That was the shortest fight ever!! Lmao

 

Whatever people think about the WBO belt at that time, Hide's KO over Reed is the one that gets credit for it.
The "fight" was pathetic though.

 

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Grass skirt FTW...

 

I saw one with James Thunder. Not sure if it was the quickest ever but it was quick enough.

Edit---Oops. Missed the HW title fight part.

 

Wilder took 300 secs (6 times longer) to get rid of a 40 y/o Damon Reed. Just as well for him that the Dancing Destroyer is not in his era!

 

Well, I doubt you really want this history, but here ya are all the same:

International Boxing Union, the first sanctioning body in 1910 and represents 1/3 of the original undisputed or universal title along with the NBA, National Boxing Association, and NYSAC, New York State Athletic Commission.

The IBU was founded and HQ'd in France and existed as a major boxing entity until the nazis took control in the 40s and reformed the org into the APPE, Associazione Pugilistica Professionistica Europea until the nazis lost control the APPE reformed into the EBU, European Boxing Union who I assume you know something about.

Ok so, nice story, but how the **** does Briggs fight for an IBU title several decades later?

In 1996 in Atlanta Georgia a new sanction body formed as a continuation of the original IBU. They sanction world title fights but are not well known outside of the Americas and have not been legitimized by the big four.

Briggs has been mentioned, Eddie Chambers was once IBU HW champion, and I believe when James Toney fought Bobby Gunn that was for the IBU world HW championship.

The IBU is tricky because the Georgia entity is claiming the original Paris IBU champions legitimize them as a world sanctioning body and the WBC, WBA, WBO, and IBF are leaning against IBU lineage for their own legitimacy.

This is more or less the truth, but the new IBU does not have sole claim over the original IBU's lineage, and It really doesn't matter if they have a legit historical claim. They very well could be a continuation of the original IBU with closer connections than the EBU and they still wouldn't be a major world title because no one knows them and boxing is a popularity contest.

For facts purposes, you might want to include them, but then again I've yet to bring them into my own list of champions because I'm not real sure how legitimate the claim is.

It's not because the IBU has a shaky claim, but rather when you get into it even the lineal has a shaky claim. Everything is built on claim and public acceptance. The public being largely unaware, I have no clue how accepting they'd be if the IBU had money behind it and operated in a more public fashion.

The original, like before gloves original, English champions, Figg and his lads, they were all guys who simply claimed to be the champ and beat up anyone who tried to deny it. That's pretty legit, but after them you get into champions picking the next champion like some kind of chosen one and that guy not being worth a **** which is why defending the title became legitimization. Then you've the color line, let me be very clear, in all respects ducking anyone used to de-legitimize a champion until black fighters came. Then Bodies were formed to bring in rules and regulations and were backed by popularity both by the industry and fans, until more started to pop up with less connection to the originals, then it didn't matter how popular you were it only matters with the other popular girls like you. So throughout history we've had these ideas about what makes a champion legit, but then we change those ideas to fit the present day's culture, forcing all claims about legitimacy to be fleeting at best. The IBU's claim is legit based on today's linkage standard, but based on the original pre-linkage standard it's just a regional belt no matter what it claims to be. Just like how all the "colored" championships that never said colored on them are not world titles but are rather colored titles. They were only popular in the black community, they were not explicitly black titles.

So you gotta decide for yourself what you think is and is not legit.

edit- dunno why I tend to leave state out, must have a mental block or some ****.

 

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