Matchups where a first round KO is likely

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  1. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Name some mismatches that most likely wouldn't have gone past 1.

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    Julian Jackson vs James Kirkland

    Tommy Hearns vs Zab Judah

    Ray Leonard vs Amir Khan

    Tyson vs Oleg Maskaev

    Bob Foster vs Julian Letterlough
     
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    Mike Tyson vs Ken Norton
     
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    George Foreman vs Floyd Patterson
    George Foreman vs Jack Dempsey
    George Foreman vs Rocky Marciano
     
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    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Rocky on pure toughness probably lasts like 3 before George stops him.
     
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    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I think there's a very real chance that Lennox Lewis would have iced Wilder in 1.
     
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    Corrie Sanders vs Oleg Maskaev
     
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    Pipino Cuevas vs Amir Khan
    Julian Jackson vs Rocky Graziano
    Mike Tyson vs Bob Satterfield
     
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    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I don't think so, he's not tougher than Frazier imo and he's easier to hit.
     
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    Prime Foreman vs Michael Moorer.....that has a reasonable possibility of ending in 1 but it definitely doesn't make it past 3.
     
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    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    I agree....Graziano does stop Jackson in 1!
     
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    I think Marciano and Dempsey COULD last longer.
     
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    Marvin Hagler vs Kimbo Slice
    Archie Moore vs Kimbo Slice
    Floyd Patterson vs Joe Savage
    Cleveland Williams vs Shane Tilyard
    Sonny Liston vs Shane Tilyard
    49 year old George Foreman vs Joe Savage
     
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    Edwin Rosario vs Kevin Mitchell
     
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    Khan is probably a victim in a lot of these matchups.

    Add Trinidad and Curry to the list of guys who likely would have stopped him in 1.
     
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    Thomas Hearns vs Ricky Hatton
    Bob Foster vs current Sergey Kovalev
    Mike Tyson vs David Price
    Edwin Rosario vs Jorge Linares
    Joe Frazier vs Dmitry Kudryashov
    Gerald McClellan vs James Kirkland
     
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