Matchups where a first round KO is likely

First round knockouts do happen between good fighters but it isn’t ever really a sensible prediction. Two fighters loading up, both rolling the dice, is often a case of who hits who first, or who warmed up properly.

A mismatch is a fight that shouldn’t have been allowed to happen in the first place. Everyone knew beforehand that one of them was out of his depth.

If it’s a good match going in, them it’s not mismatch. A mistake match.

When a good fighter is knocked out in one round I think it is tough labelling it a mismatch after the event.. good fighters fighting each other should be a good match on paper going into the fight. They should have fairly equal credentials.

A mismatch is a dangerous match that shouldn’t really be allowed to happen in the first place.

 

Just because it is an awful stylistic match for Marciano, doesn't men that he is going to get steamrolled in the first.

For a start we have never actually seen him stopped, so we don't really know what it would take.

 

I agree with all of this.

 

We never saw Frazier get stopped as well (or even close really) and we all know what happened when he went up against Foreman.

 

He was just saying a couple days ago Norton would KO Cleveland Williams ala Bobick. He's an agenda driven tool.

 

Corrie Sanders vs Golota, Maskaev, Morrison, Hide, Bennt, and Norton.

 

That doesn't necessarily mean that the same thing would happen to Marciano.

For all we know, he might just shrug off Foreman's shots.

 

Lol. The same Marciano who was dropped by Moore and Walcott and went life and death with journeymen and has-beens is shaking off Foreman's shots. Makes sense.

 

Reports say he was almost KOd by Lowry... Yet he's walking through Foreman's shots?

 

Foreman was dropped by Young.

It doesn't mean that he is just going to crumble when Marciano hits him.

The bottom line is that we don't really know what it would take to stop Marciano.

 

If he was almost KOd by Lowry, which we might well doubt in retrospect, it happened when he was a very inexperienced fighter.

It would have very little bearing on how he would have fared in his prime.

 

The correct answer to this thread is probably none.

A first round KO is always unlikely when you match two world class fighters.

 

That's not even good trolling.

 

I mean, his chin isn't gonna get that much better. Staggered in the 11/12 (I forget which) vs Walcott, and again, hurt by Lowry. It's not something which fills me with confidence vs Foreman. Especially whilst 30-odd pounds lighter and walking into those punches.

 

Of course it would have got better.

Look at some of the amateur stoppage losses that famous fighters have suffered over the years.

A out and out novice is not going to take a punch, like a prime fighter.