Recent fights... I gotta go with Abraham/Taylor. The punch could not have been any closer to being perfect. Classic fights... definitely Hagler/Hearns.
I wouldn't quite call that quit??? Your criteria must be pretty stringent??? around the 5:00 mark [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unnpAcNlRkw[/ame]
Three favorites are ...Mike McCallum ko5 Donald Curry, Sugar Ray Robinson ko3 Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale KO3 Rocky Graziano..sorry I couldn't pin it down to 1...and believe me there are many more tied for first.
Maybe not case closed. But I have to say that your selection sucked arse. One fat club fighter bludgeoning anotheratsch? You call that a classic? I've seen better fights in alleyways.
Every time Roy Jones has been kayoed has been pretty brutal. I mean, when he gets tagged, it's over...no chance he beat the count.
Case closed.:thumbsup And yeah... I know a lot of people will disagree... but for me you can't beat the magnitude of the fight, the timing of the punch, the historically granite chin of Duran , and the fact that he was asleep before he hit the canvas.
Well, actually he beat the count once, against Green, the referee stopped it. And against tarver, it is questionnable.