Knocking out fighters is generally easier in the earlier part of your career before you move up to higher levels of opposition. How is it that Garcia can take out Khan; Porter can destroy Paulie yet they don't have more KOs against worse opponents? Is it newfound better technique/experience or something? your thoughts
Paulie was a knockout waiting to happen and had been getting dropped by fighters who's punches he would have walked through once over. The only other KO he had in the past 4 years was against a fighter with an 18-17 record, so he's hardly on a roll. As far as Garcia goes. Apart from Salka which shouldn't count, his last 2 knockouts were against Khan and Morales, one can't take a punch and one was about 63 years old. He didn't look like knocking out Lucas, Zab or Herrera (he lost that one). Both don't have more KO's because they're not huge punchers in the mould of Kovalev or GGG etc.. They're just good in terms of power, not concussive unless they catch you with a perfect shot but then many fighters can hurt anyone with that.
Improved or more intense technique, IQ, and training... Garcia also dropped Zab and Matthysse, so it's not as though his repeated dropping of Khan was some sort of one time fluke.
He is looking for a KO sits down on that massive left hook. lol It's not always crispy to KO all your opponent early in your career. You learn nothing.
This. They're not really natural KO artists. Knocking the likes of Khan and Paulie out doesn't change that fact.
Porter was fighting WAAAAAYYYY above 147 when he started his career. Things to consider, how many the times the fighters have scored stoppages later in fights General improvements Denver Cuello is a great example of someone to look at for improved KO rate. He was 10-3-4 (3) then went something like 23-2-2 (18)
