Best 1st rounds

[kennylimon]

Angulo vs Kirkland recently!!

[El Manos]

I know that Hearns/Hagler is considered a great first round but I
think the following 1st rounds are better

# 1...Archie. Moore vs Yvon Durelle I
# 2...Juan Meza vs Jaime Garza
# 3...Floyd Patterson vs Ingemar Johannsen III

Your thoughts and opening round favorites.

I haven't seen all the opening rounds of Bobby Chacon, Saad Muhammad
or Marvin Johnson but I bet there is at least one great opening
round among them

Sanchez-Gomez. I jumped for when Sanchez wiped the smirk of Gomez face while breaking both of Gomez cheek bones.

[Panamaniac]

The 1st. round of Hagler/Hearns remains the best I've ever seen, and has a good chance of becoming the best I will ever see. That fight packed more action in three minutes than I've seen some yawners produce in going the distance. The most remarkable thing about that fight is that it pitted fighters of opposite stances against each other when the vast majority of such matches result in futile attempts to land a clean shot.

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Others that come to mind are:

• Ali/Foreman
• Foreman/Lyle (last min.)
• Duran/Leonard I
• Duran/Buchanan
• Tyson/Berbick
• Tyson/Spinks
• Ali/Liston II

Subject to edit/additions...

[TBear]

Though this one is not on the level of those listed Sechew Powell-Cornelius Bundrage I was another classic first round which if memory serves me right, produced a double knockdown.

[louis54]

off the top of my head, dempsey-willard, dempsey-firpo, hagler-hearns but there were many others !!

[Bolo Punch]

Nothing will ever match Dempsey-Firpo. Crazy round.