Most brutal TKO in boxing history? Video

Speaking of different times, I've always wanted to see the Stanley Ketchell-Joe Thomas fight that ended in a 32nd round knockout!

Jim Coffroth said "the Ketchel-Thomas fight was like Dempsey-Firpo, but where that fight was only 3 minutes and 57 seconds Ketchel and Thomas fought with the same intensity for 32 rounds! They came racing out of their corner like madmen and never until the last blow was struck did either quit in the savage onslaught. I never took my eyes off that ring. I couldn’t! The sight of those men raining sledgehammer blows on each other and of both standing up when it seemed that one or both must collapse, fascinated me. Every second of every minute of the first 31 rounds I felt that the end must come. But it didn’t until after an hour and a half of the wildest fighting I had ever seen!"

The conditioning of these guys was just unbelievable, I can only imagine how brutal a 32 round beating with 4-6oz gloves would be.

 

And an awful lot of people say todays boxers are better conditioned:-(

 

Yep.

Guys like Jeffries and Fitzsimmons are said to have ran up to 20 miles a day when training for a fight!

 

That's ridiculous.I'm not taking anything away from todays fighter's, but to say they are better conditioned because of modern science is not really accurate. Fighters from them sort of era's fought on a regular basis and did so knowing full well they could be fighting for way longer than 12-15 rounds. Doing that umpteen times a year, WILL get you into condition.

 

Jake Lamotta vs Sugar Ray Robinson VI

Max Bear vs Frankie Campbell

 

Jeez that was BRUTAL!

 

That was horrible, Tommy Gunn knockout would b a tie only because I remember seeing that one live.

 

julian jackson ko herol graham. A stunning ko of more recent times. Well worth a look on you tube if u aint seen it

 

yeah, i'd have to say so...

 

But that is a KO not a TKO....

 

if you say 'boxing' history then unliscensed boxing must be considered. That said mcclean and shaw have had some most brutal tko's

 

one word ...BRUTAL!!!!

 

Mercer-Morrison is the worst.

 

brutal. but griffith's k.o of benny paret is the worst....so uncomfortable to watch, as you know it's fatal.

i've not posted it for obvious reasons.

 

McGrain, your video is probably the worst. The man was throwing bombs at will against who was left literally defenseless on the ropes. Just because he didn't go down doesn't mean it wasn't brutal. Great post.