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so in other words you just started watching boxing?
some of those KOs arent that good anyways, pac and martinez just did what they were supposed to when an opponent pays zero attention to defense.
both of donaires counterpounch KOs and JMMs KO of pacquiao were highly skillfull though and indeed beautiful to watch.
to me the most beautiful KO ever would be something like walcott-charles 3, hearns-duran, mccallum-curry, foster-tiger or saad muhammad-mwale just to name a few. but there is so much to pick from, if you include fights before 2007 of course.Comment
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the uppercut was actually the KO punch
Douglas just landed a few more before he got a chance to fall down
this KO was as beautiful as it was shockingComment
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to me most of the beauty of a punch is in the set up, creating an opening and executing with perfect timing and precision. that intelligence to find the right spot for the right punch alongside the skill necessary to take advantage of the opportunity.
none of that is really relevant to martinez' KO of williams or pacquiaos KO of hatton. they didnt set anything up, williams and hatton just gave them a huge opening and like any world class fighter would they took full advantage. there isnt much skill in either KO, the target was not only given to them for free, poorly positioned and right there for them to hit but it stayed right there for some time giving them plenty of time to capitalize. no great amount of timing or precision was needed.
it wasnt like hearns-duran where hearns methodically worked to put him on the ropes. having worked the body previously he feinted downstairs with a few jabs distracting duran and making him square up a bit. then he fired the perfect right hand, it had to be because duran is too good a defensive fighter to give you easy shots. hearns threw it over the top this time as opposed to down the pipe like previous right hands to further catch duran off guard.
thats where the beauty lies, in the intelligence and skill of a KO. setting someone up and executing swiftly. after a great KO i get the feeling the loser did nothing wrong, he just fought an assassin of a fighter. i didnt feel that way about hatton and williams though, they made about as many mistakes as a fighter can make all at ones and any half decent fighter would take advantage. i dont feel martinez or pacquiao did anything special, hatton and williams dug their own graves.
so while it certainly was brutal, to me it wasnt beautiful.
Edit: i picked pacquiao to demolish hatton in brutal fashion, giving him no chance of going past 3 rounds. i saw it coming a mile away, idk how everyone didnt tbh.Last edited by #1Assassin; 04-06-2013, 07:48 AM.Comment
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@#1Assassin I somehow get your point but on which you acknowledge a beautiful KO but beg to disagree on Pac & Martinez, not preparing for their KO punch, and it was just the mistake of both hatton & williams resulting to that...
we agree on the KO beauty of Hearns-Duran, but dont see the fight the same way, to me it was easy for Hearns to do what he did as he had this big size & length advantage, and he was hurting duran from the beginning, Roberto at that fight was just trying to survive, even Duran himself during the post fight interview said after the fight that it was not him inside the ring...Comment
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Probably my two favourite KO's are the Mike Tyson vs Michael Jack Johnson KO and the Wayne Alexander vs Takaloo KO
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