My ten favourite KO's on YouTube. Let's have 1-10 from you.

Zarate KO3 Orlando Amores
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBq7NIJeD2Q[/ame]

A genuinely shocking KO, Zarate was struggling a bit with the aggressive Amores, and I think he has a case for winning both opening frames. The KO is so casual, it just goes "pop, pop", I described it the first time I spoke about it on the forum as a durnk emptying ashtrays, and it has that casual yet exaggerated quality, you can miss this one if you blink. In addition it's a technically perfect double uppercut using either hand. Awesome KO.


Lopez KO3 Preecha 1.40
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSEeLpVxCY[/ame]

This might be my fave. What strikes me about this KO is that the punches that make up the finishing combination get more perfect, more concise as Lopez works through the combination. The left hook that whistles over the stiffened Preecha is a genuinely terrifying punch.


Yoshiaki Numata KO5 Rual Rojas 5.55
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqLRMYA7gbA[/ame]

Numata is basically being beaten up by Rojas, and I still sometimes can't believe that he survived that KD. It was as horrible as anything i've ever seen. He covers up, he swings for the rigging, but it's a much more concise punch that actually saves his bacon. Another uppercut, another guy dropping like he's dead.


Lewis KO4 Rahman
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjxJ2LH1M-4[/ame]

Probably either one of these punches would have got the job done, certainly the right was lethal, there are maybe no other fighters of this kind of weight that can land two punches of this type of quality right on the button in quick succession.


Florentino Fernandez KO2 Marcel Pigou 6.50
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKOBgm__t0o[/ame]

Pigou was never really hurt like this before or after. Probably a little thuggish for some, but that's how you get your man out of there.


Hasegawa KO1 Rocha
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3m5Ud-xtA0&feature=PlayList&p=EF688EE740A568D3&playnext_from=PL&index=6[/ame]

Crazy southpaw skills sees Hasegawa setting up the right hook via the straight left hand. Sure, his man could have continued, but the perfection of technique in the KO is subline.


Joe Louis KO8 Arturo Godoy 7.00
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nzZUwFvF6s[/ame]

BOOM.



Ray Robinson KO5 Gene Fullmer
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-EWPlSHxek[/ame]



Pacquiao KO2 Hatton
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o3CCYpc6ig[/ame]

Every bit as devastating as the punch Robinson throws above IMO. Of course Hatton is less durable, less good, but I don't think it is a punch an 140lb fighter is surviving - which makes it the equal of the much admired Robinson hook



Mike McCallum K05 Donald Curry 5.00
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQj73r5qWgw[/ame]

McCallum setting the record straight with an absoltuley devastating left hook. Curry does his ring interview maybe 12 minutes after the KO and still doesn't know where he is. McCallum, in his own ring interview, described setting up the punch with a feinted uppercut, which is a punch you can see Curry react to in the fight.

 

Nigel Benn stylings. To wide, not my favourite.

Zigged when he shoulda zagged.

 

Well, you don't forget to include something in your favourites, it's just not one of your favourites.

 

Funny, I was watching this fight last week and nearly opened up a thread abotu the KO. It is, indeed, a beauty.