Greatest knockouts.

[buellster]

Has to be Mike Weaver cold-****ing Big John Tate. What a punch!

[Reezy]

tyson vs johnson

[butterfly1964]

what about patterson-johannson II?

[leff]

marciano-walcot 1

walcot looked like he had been shot

[everlast99]

julian jackson - herol graham

[Brassangel]

No, the plaster really happened, and it didn't break his hands. Fortunately for Dempsey, it didn't take nearly as much force to demolish a set of bones as it would have otherwise. His own hands were swollen and bruised, but not broken. It's a similar effect to brass-knuckles. This is probably a testament to just how tough Dempsey really was.

The Marciano-Walcott match is definitely brutal.

I almost forgot about Johnson getting that guy's teeth on his glove. A mouthguard might have helped!

The reason I put Tyson vs. Johnson on there was because we're just discussing greatest knockouts, not the most brutal ones. Tyson's flatlining of MJ is on most "Greatest Knockouts" DVD's. A lot of Tyson's brutal KO's were generally so fast that you couldn't see the force behind the punch until they did a slow-mo recap. Still, his weren't always the best.

One of the most exhausting knockouts to watch is Ali vs. Wepner. That fat old guy took a complete beating for 15 rounds and finally, after another perfect Ali combo in the last round, he went down. Wepner had never been knocked out in his career until that fight in 1975.

[butterfly1964]

also louis-walcott II was nice.

[Skydog]

For Louis's best knockout, I gotta go with Paycheck. Two jabs and a HUGE overhand right that cathces Paycheck on the top of the head and he slowly falls, unconcious.

Also another great Louis one is Nathan Mann, Mann throws a right and puts all his weight forward, Louis unleashes an uppercut that nearly takes his head, then topples Mann over with a short, compact left hook.

[Yogi]

No, the plaster really happened

Sorry, but that theory of Dempsey using plaster of paris on his hands was laid to rest a long, long time ago (when Cleveland Williams conducted an experiment with it while punching a heavy bag a few times). Even the film evidence that still exists today contradicts Kearns' statement that he put that stuff on Dempsey while they were in the dressing room, because the unedited film shows Jess Willard going over to Dempsey and checking his handwraps just before the fight started...You would think that if Jack had something on his handwraps, Big Jess would've said something right there on the spot, don't you think?

Nah, that was all one big myth that was correlated by a former manager who had a well publicised fall-out with Dempsey, and wanted to get back at him in some way.

[bigbill9]

Foreman/Frazier....Smokin Joe came off the canvas...monster shot!