Longest times down on canvas flat on your back before getting up and beating count

In the old days you could litterally be saved by the bell. there were guys getting knocked unconcious beating the count because the bell went after a 9 count, and dragged to the corner by their helpers.

 

Bute managed to survive a 22 second count and made it to the end of the round where he was saved by the bell v Andrade.

In all seriousness there is a fairly famous between Dempsey and Tunney.

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He (Bute) wasn't at the floor for that long. He was upright within 8 and by then fight was already at 3:04 in round 12. The referee tried desperately to save him, but Bute had already saved himself. It was both the timekeeper and the referees fault.

 

It's hard to compare. Just about every reacts differently from KD's, being buzzed, or KO's. That's where the term "Stopped on his/her Feet" comes from, yes? However if you are narrowing it down to only KD's while on their back and appear to be gone and stayed as long as they could before rising before the 10 count, then Donaire vs Montiel is as close as you can get. (should have been stopped as Montiel didnt come forward when asked). Montiel got up at 9.5 seconds

 

Your not going to find exact replica comparisons because every fight and fighter is unique to themselves.

The Bute example was a joke, I thought I'd highlighted that by putting 'In all seriousness' in the very first line of the next paragraph.

 

Foreman barely got up from a Lyle kd, think with a couple of seconds though he landed face first rather than on his back.

 

Not the longest, but fighters getting up from liver KDs deserve a medal. Like Maidana vs Khan.

 

Didn’t Sergio Martinez actually knockout Kermit Cintrón and they still let the fight continue for some reason even though he didn’t beat the ten count? lol

 

Buster Douglas

 

Michael Grant against Lennox Lewis. This immediately followed George Foreman's "He's broke his legs!!" exclamation on HBO. Anyway, Grant was down flat and somehow managed to lumber to his feet in time, trundle back to his corner, then get stopped for good via uppercut.

 

I’m pretty sure there have been several instances of hometown heroes in third world or post communist countries being knocked out and given exceptional time to recover and keep fighting, sometimes to their detriment.

 

He also woke up and was completely ok on his feet. I cannot think of many fighters who have woken up from being out cold for that long, and not been completely gone and/or not get stopped later in the round