Lets put it like this TS to actually answer your original post, and lets look at previous decades in history and their fighters..
1890s: John L. Sullivan.. knocked out
1900-1909: Joe Gans.. knocked out
1910s: Jimmy Wilde.. knocked out.. by a midget Filipino in his last fight
1920s: Harry Greb.. knocked out twice early in his career (but Torrecampo blitz Manny doe)
1930s: Henry Armstrong.. knocked out
1940s: Joe Louis.. knocked out
1950s: Sugar Ray Robinson.. ok he didnt get KO'd but was too exhausted to get off his stool
1960s: Muhammd Ali.. needs smelling salts & gloves ripped by Dundee against Henry Cooper
1970s: Roberto Duran.. okay he got KO'd in the 80s but in the 70s we did have "DOWN GOES FRAZIER.. DOWN GOES FRAZIER.."
1980s: Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.. 89-0 streak.. TBE doe.. had his 0 in da 80s doe. Only took 5 years to beat Floyd's current record and still in that 5 years he KO'd a Mayweather
1990s: Roy Jones Jr... got any excuses tonight Roy? KNOCKED OUT Oh yeah, Tyson got TKO'd by Holyfield in this decade too.
2000s:
1890s: John L. Sullivan.. knocked out
1900-1909: Joe Gans.. knocked out
1910s: Jimmy Wilde.. knocked out.. by a midget Filipino in his last fight
1920s: Harry Greb.. knocked out twice early in his career (but Torrecampo blitz Manny doe)
1930s: Henry Armstrong.. knocked out
1940s: Joe Louis.. knocked out
1950s: Sugar Ray Robinson.. ok he didnt get KO'd but was too exhausted to get off his stool
1960s: Muhammd Ali.. needs smelling salts & gloves ripped by Dundee against Henry Cooper
1970s: Roberto Duran.. okay he got KO'd in the 80s but in the 70s we did have "DOWN GOES FRAZIER.. DOWN GOES FRAZIER.."
1980s: Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.. 89-0 streak.. TBE doe.. had his 0 in da 80s doe. Only took 5 years to beat Floyd's current record and still in that 5 years he KO'd a Mayweather
1990s: Roy Jones Jr... got any excuses tonight Roy? KNOCKED OUT Oh yeah, Tyson got TKO'd by Holyfield in this decade too.
2000s:
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