Lightning in a bottle

I disagree with Barrera vs Naz, Barrera sure had the skills to outbox the Prince that way even before the fight.
I would add Barkley vs Hearns 2 and Duran vs Leonard 2.
Barkley vs Hearns 2: People sure knew that Barkley could hurt Hearns, but outbox him?; Hearns outboxed Benitez and Leonard, if Hearns was going to lose against Barkley, no one expected it to be by decision.
Duran vs Leonard 2: It wasn't a secret that Duran used to gain a lot of weight between fights, but still he was considered one of the toughest fighters in boxing history; and even tho Leonard decided to brawl in Montreal, no one expected to be so easy a second time, let alone Duran quitting.

 

Great post, Pat.

That shot by Jones is one of the greatest and most sickening body-shots ever thrown in a Boxing Ring. The should of it!

I think Manny absolutely starching Hatton is up there as that just was not excepted so early.

Likewise, I think Manny getting starched by JMM is up there, too. Marquez was just never that kind of puncher. Yet he left Manny face down.

Tyson/Douglas is up there. Nobody expected Douglas to win, nobody. And certainly by way of KO anyway!

 

Corrie Sanders over Wlad was big. Not too many picking the old guy to go to Germany and have his hand raised over the young guy. a few here and there liked his chances but not many.

Even more surprising was Hasim Rahman over Lennox Lewis. Nobody liked the rock's chances in that one. And the way the fight was going, it looked to be a tko type win based on that cut. So you had Rahman with a cut eye and he lands the perfect shot.

Julian Jackson catching Graham was another guy w/ a bad cut close to having things stopped but landing that big shot. but more folks liked Jackson's chances going in--but then again when doesn't a puncher have a big fan following. So not a surprising result as much as a surprise ending in a bout they were getting ready to stop. But he was doing nothing in there the early rounds and I thought the ref was stopping it a little earlier when he looked at the cut.

 

I knew that Sanders would ice him. Corrie was a great fighter, and his whole career he'd been trying to land that big fight and never getting it. Even at 36 (37?) I knew that he would jump Wlad like a starving pitbull on a bone. His style was also all wrong for that version of Wlad, and may have been wrong even for the Steward version too.

 

Hearns knocking out Duran, everybody knew Hearns could punch but Duran was satan inside the ring and known to have a great chin. Tommy's right hand was as fast as a bullet that night and just as deadly.....

 

There has never in the HISTORY of Boxing been a shot thrown quicker than that right hand by Tommy.

Even in slow motion it is blisteringly fast. Fastest punch I've ever seen and it was BEAUTIFULLY set-up.

 

It was fast plus it had that whip-like snap on it at the point of impact...one deadly right hand it was.

 

The beautiful left hook that SRR got the iron chinned Gene Fullmer with...."whilst" on the retreat.

 

Weaver ko Tate has to be in there ..

Chavez - Taylor 1 as well

Walcott KO Charles

Chuvalo KO Quarry (maybe)

 

For a more obscure reply, I'd go with Ezra Sellers' win over Carl Thompson. While Ezra hit hard enough to put anyone way, he was even more fragile than he was menacing. And Carl was a kayo hitter, well condition, and though his defense led him into plenty of precarious positions, his phenomenal powers of recovery usually saw him through.

Therefore, one would think if those two got into a 6 knockdown war of attrition, that Carl being more experienced and durable would put away the perinially vulnerable Sellers. Not so;

 

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Harrison v Sprott, both fights were one punch finishes totally against the run of the play.

 

Sergio Martinez KO Paul Williams