Craziest beginning of a boxing match ever

Most boxing matches nowadays start with very slow, feel em out first rounds. Then things typically pick up in round 2 or 3.

But what are some boxing matches that started with fireworks right at the beginning of the 1st round?

Meaning, ding ding, round 1 starts, and something crazy happens right away. Like a combatant coming out charging his opponent right out of the gate, swinging for the fences, etc.

Also what was the fastest knockdown or knockout ever you can remember?

 

Hagler Hearns is one of the first ones that came to mind. Certainly one of the craziest Round 1's ever, but probably not the craziest first 5-10 seconds of a Round 1 ever.

I'm mainly looking for a match that had a completely bonkers first 5-10 seconds of the 1st round. Tyson vs Frazier was an awesome Round 1 as well, but I'm looking for a completely crazy beginning of Round 1, like something just off the wall nuts right at the beginning.

 

I'm all for crazy first rounds in general lol. While I'm specifically looking for crazy beginnings to the first round, any kind of unique beginnings of first rounds or unique first rounds in general are definitely fair game, specifically if something unusual happens at the beginning that you describe like :

This qualifies for what I'm looking for, for Aaron to come out fighting in the complete opposite way he usually fights, running around the ring without throwing a punch, that's definitely interesting.

Basically I'm looking for anything "different" or "unique" at the start of Round 1 than what we are used to seeing. Anything different than just the typical "feel out the entire round 1" "nothing happens all round 1" that we see so often in boxing these days.

I'd rather see someone coming out and fighting super defensive Willie Pepp style with all kinds of unusual lateral movement out the gate than just both fighters standing there covering up and doing nothing all round like we see so often these days.

I'm looking for anything "fun", "different" or "interesting" that happens at the start of a match that we don't typically see these days or something that is unlike any other beginning of a match to ever happen.

 

Now that you mention it, I think I've seen that too, but I can't remember what fight it was. I have a very foggy memory of seeing what you describe, if you find it please share the clip.

 

This is so fun to watch. Pryor was such a showman, of course the iconic pointing at the opponent with the right glove when he's announced. Man that never gets old. That sure is a "crazy" beginning of a fight, for him to come out and fight that way. But even before the opening bell, just look at that face off with the referee giving instructions.

Like in today's boxing, they don't really let fighters get right up in their opponents grill like this anymore. They always hold them back. In this fight, Pryor goes right up to Johnson, and gets right up against his face. And what this does is, it adds to the buildup and the tension of the opening bell. Then Pryor sort of turns away and smirks. THIS IS ALL MIND GAMES FROM PRYOR RIGHT.

Like this makes you think he's going to go FULL OUT. But instead he does the complete opposite and starts dancing like Ali, only faster. We just don't see boxers use that amount of consistent fast back and forth, turning on a dime, lateral motion anymore. Think about the energy and confidence of this man, to first play mind games like that at the face off before the opening bell, to get right into his opponents face like he's about to go to war, then to come out fighting like that. This is something completely unexpected from Pryor and it creates an edge of your seat intensity from the opening bell like you just can't take your eyes off it, and you can't wait to see what happens next with him using this strategy. In today's boxing, you don't get this feeling anymore that you get when watching that.

 

The thing about having crazy round 1s is that, when a boxing match has a crazy round 1, you're instantly glued to the action from the opening bell, and it makes the whole rest of the match that much more engaging and interesting. So many matches these days have slow starts and only get going after a number of rounds, and then it's over before you know it, many times before you really get into it.

To have a crazy opening round, or a crazy start to the opening round, and then from that point it becomes something even more memorable. Even if it doesn't end up going the distance, the feeling of being instantly glued to the match from the opening bell, not just because you're excited about the fight, but because something in that opening round happened that was completely unexpected and shocking even, is something very rare.

Boxing matches even with slow starts are still entertaining and engaging, but not to the level of when the beginning of the round 1 starts off with something crazy, or some fireworks at the start of a match. Knowing that something crazy happened so early on in a match with so many rounds potentially to go, that creates an unbelievable amount of excitement.