KO of the year - 2025

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  1. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing Aficionado Full Member

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    What was the best KO of the year?

    For me, it's this one:

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  2. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Its between Norman Jr KO over Jin Sasaki and Gassiev KO over Pulev IMO.

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  3. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    this is worthy of mentioning as well.
     
  4. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold The Hype Job Spotter. Full Member

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    Subtle side step was just a thing of beauty.

    Better than any Wilder KO really.
     
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  5. ipswich express

    ipswich express Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    His brutal KO of Nyika is up there too.
     
  6. UnleashtheFURY

    UnleashtheFURY D'oh!

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    Top HW contender a decade or so younger than him to top it all off. Picture perfect textbook technique. Wilder is just speed and power. Which isn't there for him anymore.
     
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  7. drenlou

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    Norman-Sasaki was brutal!
     
  8. rolzone

    rolzone Active Member Full Member

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    Had to watch it in slow motion to see it clearly. Yea well schooled
     
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  9. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    I think we have to go with Usyk

    I don't care if he knocked out Dubois before Usyk is an old man who is well past his best and Dubois was much bigger, much younger, much more powerful and crucially riding high on a three-fight stoppage win streak over a former 2 x unified HW champion, an undefeated top 5 contender IIRC, and an undefeated 330lb man mountain and the later two arguably have the best chins in the division and have never been stopped and Usyk Eastwood moseyed on into Dubois' backyard on his mule to put an end to all the bitching and complaining and controversy after the 1st fight and scored a sensational HL reel KO win.

    Folk love to remind you Usyk beat Dubois before whilst neglecting to mention he was on a great three-fight STOPPAGE/KO streak of AJ, Hrgovic and Big Baby Miller and, as said, Hrgovic and Miller are made out of iron and Dubois is the only man to KO AJ and he did it in spectacular fashion


    The optics of the much smaller Usyk doing that weren't just special it was an iconic moment and KO.

    I can't think of another instance of another HW champ of Usyk's age doing that to a much bigger, much younger, murderous puncher in their backyard, let alone in a unification match up because it's extremely rare and if any of you guys can keep your goddamn mouths closed :deal:

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  10. Barrf

    Barrf Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Bam-Puma was pretty great. That flow of that entire fight was basically off two punches. The first was Bam giving Puma about the worst broken nose I’ve ever seen. The second was the dodge counter that one shotted Puma. The entire sequence leading up the KO was so incredible you need to watch it in slow-mo to appreciate how goddamn good Bam was that night.

    and they say Bam isn’t a puncher. I dunno. All the guys he’s one-shotted might say otherwise.

    honorable mention to AJ-Paul. Not because it was unexpected, but because AJ was given a homework assignment and then delivered 100%. The good view of it (captured by some fan I think) is epic, the stills are epic, AJ gave every single fan EXACTLY what they wanted to see. And as a bonus, the x-ray pics after. Sure, him doing that round 1 would have been better, but nobody can say he didn’t complete the assignment.
     
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  11. Ice8Cold

    Ice8Cold The Hype Job Spotter. Full Member

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    He’ll be doing that to Wilder, Wardley and certainly Itauma soon.
     
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  12. ipswich express

    ipswich express Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sheesh...
     
  13. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Bam's KO over Martinez is also a candidate. Lived up to his nickname.

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  14. Macedoine62

    Macedoine62 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    The most shocking knocked out of the year for me Yahir Alan Frank Verdugo vs Argi Cortes at 115 lbs.
     
  15. CST80

    CST80 The Hesitant Nihilist Staff Member

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    I think this one is my personal favorite. Frank Martin straight up shot Rances Barthelemy in the head with a double barrel shotgun and blew his goddamn head off.:lol: It's ****ing horrific!
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