Opponents do strange things when they hit them. A poster here said that Julian Jackson's punches made his opponents react like they were were having electricity run through them, something he never saw another puncher duplicate. And watching Jackson's fights, it's true. Drayton going completely stiff and falling like a felled tree, Graham slumping to the canvas like he had simply fallen asleep standing up... Supernatural punching power. Tommy Morrison could do this as well. Against Ruddock, Donavan looked like for an instant he was boneless, as if he simply had no skeleton as he fell to the canvas. Against David Jaco he simply made him all backwards like a tree. First punch of the first round as I remember it. Michael Moorer, at LHW especially, could do this as well. He'd hit guys with odd looking punches, and the way they would react was eery. Even up at HW he made guys like Alex Stewart and 6'10 Mike White go down like they were dead. Who else?
Oh, almost forgot. Ezra Sellers! A guy that threw punches from impossible angles that should have made the shots powerless if there ever was one. As one of our articles said... " I've seen Ezra Sellers KO people with range finders, and I mean dead asleep. I’ve seen Ezra Sellers nearly kill IRON CHINNED Johnny Nelson. I’ve seen Ezra Sellers fold Carl Thompson over, and nearly kill him as well, and that mother ----- is as tough as they come."
i think i once saw a FMJ fight early in his career and he hit the boy with a left hook and the boy kinda jumped up and kicked his legs forward and landed on his back
I remember reading about and up and coming heavyweight where the author said "when this kid hits people they literaly fly round the ring". The name of the kid, Mike Tyson.
I've seen Rafael Marquez hit people at bantamweight and look as if he killed the poor buggers; their eyes roll back in their head, their body stands stock still for a split second, and then they collapse like a fart onto the canvas. When Rafael hit you (at that weight) you basically stayed hit.
Of course one of the more famous instances of this is in the Tszyu-Judah fight. Zab hits the canvas, springs up, turns his head to talk to the ref, and then he falls over again; gotta love the double KO punch.
I often disagree with your opinions Russell, but you continually produce original and interesting threads on this forum. I salute you sir :happy
Even though he didn't win and knock him out, Renaldo Snipes made Larry Holmes go straight into that turnbuckle.
There is one fight when Gerald McClellan zaps some guy, completely stiffening him up, with a beautiful right hand down the pipe.
Pipino Cuevas doing the snake dance before going down vs. Tommy Hearns. Battling Nelson did a somersault and landed flat on his back after Aurelio Herrera detonated one of his bombs on his chin. To his credit, he arose.
George Foreman's body/kidney shots. I saw guys drop their hands, literally, to hug their stomachs to make it stop. They would literally run away from him to avoid another. I pissed blood after a day of those, once. George had cinderblocks for fists.