Originally posted by The Gambler1981
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ESPN KO of the Year: Canelo Vs Kirkland
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Can't really bitch about it. As others have said, Canelo is one of the biggest names in the sport, and Kirkland was knocked out for that ass.
Ugonoh's KO of Quarrie deserves a shout out.
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Does ESPN got a boxing staff that votes on this stuff or is it just Dan?
Definitely my choice for KO of the Year too doe.
That Edwin Rodriguez vs Michael Seals fight would get my KD of the Year award if that was an award. I think the final KD & KO wasn't THAT interesting, but there was crazy ass KD's before it.
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Originally posted by j0zef View PostMan, they're going all out to promote Canelo as the next big thing.Last edited by about.thousands; 12-29-2015, 01:46 PM.
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Originally posted by Rip Chudd View PostIt was against James Kirkland. Ishida even stopped himLast edited by bigdunny1; 12-29-2015, 02:08 PM.
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I can immediately think of two others I was more impressed by, but this was the fitting of the award because it wasn't just the punch itself that made this the KO of the year, it was the way it came across. It was dramatic the way Kirkland's jaw twisted, he fell like a sack of potatoes, and laid there for quite a while. I credit excellent photography (and replays) as a big reason why it came off so dramatically.
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Originally posted by bigdunny1 View PostSo? That's the reason it was not for fight of the year award and was for KO of the year instead. And other KO canidates were in small arenas in fights few fans saw. This was in a full baseball stadium in a broadcast on HBO that did their best live viewership in 10 years. It was one the most brutal KOs of the year and seen by probably 10x the amount of fans as any other leading canidate. Kirkland got ko by Ishida going on 5 years ago and many winners of this award were given to guys who have been kod before. For example Marquez was not the first to ko Pacquiao and Pacquiao was not the first to ko Hatton and Lewis was not the first to ko Tyson. Yet those guys won Knockout of the year.
Not to take anything away from Canelo, because it was a good knockout(against a guy who is chinny). Not KO of the year IMO, but this was given by ESPN. I'll give an example: When I saw the Canelo vs Kirkland fight and James got knocked out I thought it was a good knockout and James was alright. When I saw the Vicente vs Dominguez KO I was literally concerned for the guy's life, that's how brutal of a KO it was, so it's the more impressive knockout
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