Comments Thread For: BoxingScene Knockout of the Year: N'Dam KO's Blanco in One

[Eastcoast]

Blanco was a weak fighter period also inactive over a year, while N'Dam stayed very active during 2016.


If Danny Jacobs had fought Blanco instead of Mora (or as an interim fight in December), he would've had a highlight-reel KO to create some buzz around him.

[Beercules]

Thought of Larry and El-Blanco when I read the title

[Motorcity Cobra]

Horrible award. Stop giving these awards to meaningless fights!!

[ShoulderRoll]

Thought of Larry and El-Blanco when I read the title

That might have been the real Knockout of the Year. El Blanco still hasn't recovered from Larry's assault.

[Loque-san]

Blanco was a weak fighter period also inactive over a year, while N'Dam stayed very active during 2016.


If Danny Jacobs had fought Blanco instead of Mora (or as an interim fight in December), he would've had a highlight-reel KO to create some buzz around him.

This is ******ed man. N'dam caught Blanco cold with a punch he never saw coming. It has nothing to do with being weak or inactive. The lay-off could have been a problem if Blanco had taken this fight on short notice. That wasn't the case. He had the time to properly prepare and sharpen his reflexes. That right hand didn't appear to be powerful live but the replay told a different story. N'dam isn't a puncher but he did drop and hurt Stevens after he caught him coming in.

Blanco was an unknown factor before the fight. He still is. I knew that he had a good amateur background and had trained in Oxnard for a while. That's it. He may or may not be weak, but you can't draw a definitive conclusion when you know so little about him and after a fight that lasted only 22 seconds. Getting knocked out cold can happen to the most rugged fighters.

This type of KO happens maybe once or twice in a career. If it was as easy as cherry-picking a supposedly weak fighter coming off a long layoff, then everyone would do it.

[Eastcoast]

This is ******ed man. N'dam caught Blanco cold with a punch he never saw coming. It has nothing to do with being weak or inactive. The lay-off could have been a problem if Blanco had taken this fight on short notice. That wasn't the case. He had the time to properly prepare and sharpen his reflexes. That right hand didn't appear to be powerful live but the replay told a different story. N'dam isn't a puncher but he did drop and hurt Stevens after he caught him coming in.

Blanco was an unknown factor before the fight. He still is. I knew that he had a good amateur background and had trained in Oxnard for a while. That's it. He may or may not be weak, but you can't draw a definitive conclusion when you know so little about him and after a fight that lasted only 22 seconds. Getting knocked out cold can happen to the most rugged fighters.

This type of KO happens maybe once or twice in a career. If it was as easy as cherry-picking a supposedly weak fighter coming off a long layoff, then everyone would do it.

Educate yourself.



Blanco is a weak fighter, he barely beat an old Khomitsky in Venezuela. I didn't expect it to be this spectacular, but N'Dam was going to stop him whether it be first round or later. Being out as long as he was, can lessen punch resistance and reflexes - leaving him more exposed to a big shot that he doesn't see coming. A big puncher like Danny Jacobs would've blown Blanco out.

[ShoulderRoll]

What does it matter if Blanco was a weak fighter or not?

The award is for Knockout of the Year. Not Upset of the Year.

[Loque-san]

Blanco is a weak fighter, he barely beat an old Khomitsky in Venezuela. I didn't expect it to be this spectacular, but N'Dam was going to stop him whether it be first round or later. Being out as long as he was, can lessen punch resistance and reflexes - leaving him more exposed to a big shot that he doesn't see coming. A big puncher like Danny Jacobs would've blown Blanco out.

Martin Murray barely beat Khomitsky in the UK as well. Is he a weak fighter?

Every week you have boxing fights involving promising prospects with power against inactive tomato cans with no defense and/or weak chins and they rarely end up in a knockout of the year contender. What does that tell you?

Jacobs has stopped almost everyone he's fought. A quick KO of Blanco wouldn't be surprising. But to think it would have been a guaranteed highlight-reel KO is absurd.

[Eastcoast]

Martin Murray barely beat Khomitsky in the UK as well. Is he a weak fighter?

Every week you have boxing fights involving promising prospects with power against inactive tomato cans with no defense and/or weak chins and they rarely end up in a knockout of the year contender. What does that tell you?

Jacobs has stopped almost everyone he's fought. A quick KO of Blanco wouldn't be surprising. But to think it would have been a guaranteed highlight-reel KO is absurd.

The point of posting Blanco/Khomitsky is that it showed what Blanco had, he wasn't an unquantified product. Not that fast, not much power, and he got buzzed a few times (not a good sign vs Khomitsky).

I figured you'd bring up the Murray fight. Murray has a style he doesn't look good vs some fighters with his high guard and often fights down to the level of his opposition - Spada and Tetteh he looked equally unimpressive. He is what he is - durable, workman performer - nothing special.

I already said I didn't expect N'Dam to get that flashy of a stoppage, but I was certain he'd stop Blanco. A puncher like Jacobs would've stopped Blanco in dominate fashion. Probably not quite like N'Dam's KO, but brutal none the less. And it would've been noticed given that Blanco was Jacobs' mandatory in the WBA, and Jacobs could've used the momentum given his long inactive period following Quillin. I didn't mean to say Jacobs would've had a KO of the year in place of N'Dam, but it would've been a nasty KO over a fresh face as opposed to Mora again -(or better yet, in addition to Mora had Jacobs fought in December).

[Lester Tutor]

Pedro Diaz is the dude doe.