What's happened to one punch knockout heavyweight fights

To be fair AJ did a decent job of Povetkin. Wasn’t a ref jumped in sort of thing, hurt him very badly.

Also Ruiz did give AJ a good beating but get what you mean. Tyson would have had him unconscious

 

PEDS changed the landscape plus double chin fighters winning World Titles - New York 1 June 2019 the latest example.

 

Better strength and conditioning? Nutrition maybe? (Im referencing chin, better recovery)

Never noticed that stat in all honesty, somewhat surprising. Most probably a number of factors

 

I saw Timber fall when Sprott hit Fraudley - he woke up 2 rounds later

 

Part of it is arguably down to the refereeing. They are much more likely to jump in and stop a fight these days if they see a fighter in trouble. As pointed out above with Joshua, he pretty much bingo’d Povetkin, Whyte and Klitschko but they all go down as TKO’s.

 

Fury never sat on his shots.

You will see him knock out FEMI with the new KRONK style.

 

Think a lot of its down to how much they analyse their opponents nowadays. A lot of training camps are basically made up of working on nullifying anything the opponents good at. So if an opponents got say a dangerous left hook...they work a lot on him not getting it off on them etc.

Years back they mostly worked on improving their own skillset...now its more about how do we nullify what the opponent does well. They do that by watching hours of tape of the opponent. Watching patterns/setups etc. Then get to work on finding something that works to nullify the opponents strengths. Makes it harder to knock guys out at that level when the opponent knows pretty much everything your going to do.

 

And then Sprott woke up 2 weeks later after the rematch!

 

Thought the Whyte v Povetkin fight was quite relevant for this thread for the OP.

Povetkin’s win goes down as a TKO despite him totally icing Whyte before he even landed flat on his back because the ref didn’t do the count.

 

Paddy Power never paid out on the KO and many a boxing casual PPV buyer seething with rage having no idea what a TKO was.

 

Absolutely vile that referee connived to get it not ruled a knockout

 

Great shout Mr Jurgen, That was a superb KO, a forgotten KO, not shown on many highlights reels.

 

This made me laugh more than it should've.

 

Refs calling fights of more quick