12th Round Knockout

[MANGLER]

There's plenty of comeback KO's from fighters who were behind or badly hurt, but it almost never happens in the last round. By the time a fighter is badly losing to the point that he must have a KO in the 12th he's usually so done mentally and/or physically it's a foregone conclusion that it won't happen. Somebody asked me about this and off the top of my head I couldn't come up with an example of it happening in a big fight. Anybody got any?

[Thread Stealer]

Come from behind, 15th round stoppages

Mike Weaver-John Tate
Jake LaMotta-Laurent Dauthuille

Come from behind, 12th round stoppages

Julio Cesar Chavez-Meldrick Taylor I



Let me think of some others.

[Silencers]

Chavez-Taylor.

[KingTito]

Chavez-Taylor. Chavez was losing, and would've lost, but he wasn't done. He came on stronger in the later rounds. Taylor was more physically beaten than Chavez.

[MANGLER]

Chavez-Taylor. Chavez was losing, and would've lost, but he wasn't done. He came on stronger in the later rounds. Taylor was more physically beaten than Chavez.

Good one but I left it alone cuz there's already been a couple threads goin on about this fight on here lately and I didn't wanna dwell on it. I still couldn't immediately think of any others though.

[Thread Stealer]

It's not a knockout, but Bobby Chacon dropped Bazooka Limon with about 20 seconds to go in the 15th round of their 4th fight, and ended up winning the fight (and title) on 2 cards by one point.

[JakeNDaBox]

Maskaev-Rahman II

Briggs-Lyakhovich, though a very easy fight to forget (save for the ending)

[J_CON]

This makes me think of Coralles-Castillo, but it wasn't 12th round.

[MANGLER]

Maskaev-Rahman II

Briggs-Lyakhovich, though a very easy fight to forget (save for the ending)

Maskaev's 2nd Rahman KO crossed my mind but I didn't consider that to be a desparate come from behind stoppage, ala Tito-Vargas. Right on about the Briggs one though. Qualifies to make the cut here but I never woulda remembered that one in a million years it was such a boring ****in fight. Just remembered Montiel gettin a 12th round KO a little while back in a fight that was the bomb but I don't recall if he was behind or who his opponent was.

[JakeNDaBox]

yeah i was hesitant to list Maskaev-Rahman II for that very reason. I was just trying to come up with ANY come-from-behind 12th round knockouts, however narrow the deficit.

For final round knockouts in general, Chavez-Taylor I and Weaver-Tate are the only two fights that generally ring out. Of course, historians will also add LaMotta-Dauthuille II, but the other two are more on my mind since they occurred during my lifetime