What is your favorite KO of all time?

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  1. Drew101

    Drew101 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    (You have to watch the alternate angle to see what happened here)

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  2. Roughhouse

    Roughhouse Active Member Full Member

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    When "Lethal Weapon" Joe Savage made good on all his boasts about beating Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson in the same night and lasted a whopping 70 seconds with a disinterested Bert Cooper who looked like he was swatting a mildly irritating gnat.

    Besides that, Foreman kayoing Moorer is a good shout and worthy of many the rewatch. As is Curry sending McCrory into sleepy time.
     
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  3. LenHarvey

    LenHarvey Active Member Full Member

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    Pirog Jacobs
    Kessler Green
    Abraham Gevor

    3 that spring to mind in terms of modern.. too many to list
     
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  4. JohnThomas1

    JohnThomas1 VIP Member

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    Hearns - Duran. Film is not needed for this one.
     
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  5. KO_King

    KO_King Horizontal Heavyweight Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis KO Hasim Rahman for me. A perfectly placed punch, if you will, plus all the added needle and revenge aspect.
    Honorable bodyshot mention for Roy Jones v Virgil Hill.
     
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  6. rodney

    rodney Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    KO by in 6, lying there like a dead fish.
    Pac getting KO'd by Marquez.
     
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  7. he grant

    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    Great pick for an insanely forgotten, underrated great welterweight champ
     
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  8. Thread Stealer

    Thread Stealer Loyal Member Full Member

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    I really don’t think I can narrow it down

    But 1990 had of my favorites all time

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  9. RockyJim

    RockyJim Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Rocky Marciano wins the title on September 23, 1952 against Jersey Joe Walcott with the greatest "one punch" KO in history. Decked for the first time in his career...cut and blinded for 4 rounds...had the s**t beat out of him...behind on all scorecards...and then in the 13th round..."BANG"...he throws the greatest right hand ever and wins the title!
     
  10. The Cryptkeeper

    The Cryptkeeper Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Kostya Tszyu making Zab Judah do the chicken dance.

    Foreman vs Cooney for its brutality. I genuinely thought he had killed Cooney for a second.

    Foreman vs Moorer for the history of it.
     
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  11. bboyrei

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    Patterson leaping left hook on Johansson, so greatly executed
     
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  12. MaccaveliMacc

    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I personally think this might be the greatest KO of all time, looking at how Marciano was losing that fight and what was at stake.
     
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  13. OddR

    OddR Active Member Full Member

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    There was a Mike Tyson KO in 1990 after he lost to Douglas forgot the opponent which was savage and always comes to mind. It was a brutal shot to the head.
     
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  14. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    No Leonard vs. Dave Green?
     
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  15. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Having a soft spot for Wilfredo Gomez and Wilfred Benitez, I always think of their knockouts of Royal Kobayashi and Maurice Hope, respectively.

    But my favorite knockout and the best in history, I think, is Floyd Patterson ko5 Ingemar Johhansson.
     
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