Finishing Knockouts Are Severely Underrated

Mike Tyson finishing off Pinklon Thomas, and Sugar Ray Leonard finishing off Dave Boy Green. Are two that instantly come to mind, Tyson for the brutality of the combinations, and Leonard for the beauty of the combinations.

 

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If I understand this right you’re saying combination punching KOs are more violent and dramatic? Well, Paret vs Griffith was as brutal as you could ask of a finish. (RIP) I prefer to see a fighter pulled into a shot for a clean KO.

It’s a talent that Moore demonstrated time and time again he’d use your momentum so well that you’d be carried into a shot like a fly to the windshield of a train and be splattered.

 

Indeed it was the uppercut is what I always remember about that KO, i think Tyson might have a few good combination KO's.

Another one is Tua vs Ruiz another pretty quick brutal one.

Lewis vs Botha was a pretty good one.

One of your favourite fights Cooper vs Moorer, had a pretty good finish with a series of combinations aswell.

 

Duran/DeJesus 3 was a violent but beautiful display by Duran at the finish. DeJesus had alot of courage and pride. When he got dropped by that vicious righthand in the 12th, he crawled to the ropes to help himself up.
Some of that is instinct but he knew what was in store for him. That finishing combination by Duran would have made Joe Louis proud.

 

Ike Williams v Beau Jack I
Terry Norris v Donald Curry

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it's not on youtube but I saw the film on about a 6 month delay back in the day, and that was Armando Muniz v Billy Lloyd. It would remind you of the Liston-Williams fight the way Muniz slowly pounded Lloyd into the canvas in the corner.

 

I should also mention Carlos Ortiz' knockout of Battling Torres. Carlos slowly broke him down in the waning 1/2 minute of the 10th round. I thought of this only because I was dwelling on Ortiz. I don't know if anyone heard this, but Ortiz suffered a severe stroke last night.

 

Damn. I hope he recovers well. One of the few links to a golden era of Boxing.

 

Shavers vs Williams was dreadful, I don’t even think a punch landed for the KO….much more fatigue and lack of conditioning in my mind.

 

Charles vs Walcott III. This knockout is poetic. Jersey Joe lost a Unanimous Decision not once but TWICE after 15 rounds against Ezzard in their first and second encounters. But in the third fight, Jersey Joe walks out his corner round 7 and KO's Ezzard (an ATG) with a slip and counter that is text book perfection. Charles had no glass jaw. Jersey Joe on a good night was something remarkable to behold. Jersey Joe Walcott is imo, a top 20 p4p all time great.

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Just think of how lethal a volley of left jabs delivered to the midsection would be in the waning seconds of a thirteen rounder if thrown properly.