Your favorite one punch knockout

Terry Norris vs Stevie Little. That was as one punch as it gets because Little was making Norris miss badly. I don't think Terry had landed a punch in two rounds leading up to the right hand that ended the fight.

 

This wasn't one punch ko.

 

Charles Vs Walcott III

 

Another one the Brits in particular might remember: Wayne Alexander flattening Mehrdud Takaloo. Made all the more impressive by the fact that Alexander had just been hurt, was on the back foot and under siege when he found a left hook from nowhere to end it. You simply couldn't find a sweeter spot to land a shot like that and it absolutely annihilated Takaloo. Well worth a look for anyone who hasn't seen in.

Speaking of left hook, one-punch knockouts, I've got to five an honourable mention to Donaire-Darchinyan I. Such a perfectly-executed shot, it didn't have to travel very far at all. Plus, it was the springboard for the career of a guy who has been one of my favourites ever since.

 

Marciano- Walcott 1 actually made me go "guh" when I saw the right land. If that isn't a resounding endorsement I don't know what is.

 

Marciano throwing the kitchen sink at Walcott for 12 and then getting the "1 punch" ko in the 13th...

 

Norris won, right? I hope so

 

My favorite to this day. I watched a clip on CBS Sports Saturday reviewing from the previous night, just hours before

Hagler KO 5 Obel

Hagler at his peak. Reading about the fight his manger supposedly said "he's a punk" to which Marvin replied "I like 'em like that. I'm gonna hurt him Pat"

 

Hearns vs. Duran, although Tommy vs. Duran was not a one punch knockout. One punch ended the fight but Duran was wobbly after a barrage of punches.. Besides the Hearns fight, the pure one punch knockout I like the most is Mike McCallum vs. Donald Curry. One moment a fight and the next Donald is on his back.

 

Some people might not notice, but that one-two punches that Lennox threw in rematch against Rahman was the same exact combo that he threw against Mccall right before Mccall landed that right hand. Stewart certainly a brilliant trainer and has studied Lennox, cause Mccall easily dodged those one-two and countered right away.

 

Bit of a niche one but Kennedy McKinney dropping Welcome Ncita in round 11 after having nearly been stopped earlier in the round. Ncita dropped like a stone from that one.

 

Jackson vs. Graham

 

If you had to explain to someone what a one punch knockout was, you'd just show them that clip.

Reggie Johnson - William Guthrie was perfectly timed and completely unexpected. Virtually all of Reggie's world-level fights at 160 had went the distance, and he iced a much larger power-punching light-heavy with one punch.

 

Nunn-Kalmbay was an absolute shocker in more ways than one!