Was that the GOAT uppercut KO?

I spent a few minutes trying to recall some great uppercut KOs in history. I'm not sure any were quite as sweet as last night. Definitely one of the best uppercut KOs we've ever seen.

 

LMAO! Ohhh how I loved that one.

Ironically, Abner Mares referenced it on the telecast.

 

Davis ko was more vicious and picturesque but I actually like Santa Cruz and hated diaz so the latter was more satisfying

 

Naz KO'd Tom Johnson with a brutal uppercut, but it wasn't as good as last night.

 

Maybe Ernie Shavers uppercut KO of Jimmy Ellis. That rivals last night, but still, Ellis wasn't SLEEP SLEEP the way Leo was.

 

Nothing beats Ike's uppercut on Byrd. Best shot of the century. It was like a shot gun blast. Byrd was sleep walking for the rest of the week.

 

Its def up there, but Byrd wasn't out cold.

 

Shavers KO1 Ellis

 

He was slobbering and telling the ref about his plans to build a tree house mid fight. He was 100% knocked out from the second it landed and everything he did was instinctual muscle memory. His brain was in deep sleep.

 

Manny Pacquiao vs Fahsan 3k Battery

 

Not a pure uppercut, but it´s still funny to watch again:

 

Yup. I mentioned it.

 

Actually, there might be one better and it slipped my mind at first: Mike Spinks' left uppercut KO of Marvin Johnson.

 

Povetkins vs whyte worth mention in uppercut of the year stakes

 

A lot of the KO uppercuts are usually close in-fighting, I picked Pacquiao´s because it was at range.

 

Tyson-Marvis Frazier of course deserves mention.

Even though that was a combo, it was really only one right uppercut that knocked Frazier out, and the rest was just window dressing.

 

Foreman's shot that lifted Frazier up from the canvas has to be mentioned. It wasn't a lights-out KO but it ended the fight

 

Lorenzo Boyd

 

Foreman Cooney. He followed it up with a right but the was just corpse abuse

 

Donaire vs Martinez

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Commentators were talking about the uppercut just before he landed it...

 

Walcott v Charles III

 

Matthew Saad Muhammad vs Louis Pergaud.

Beautiful left uppercut KO.

 

Agreed. That one is up there. Cooney was gone after the left uppercut

 

Castillo on bazan. Not sure if it was the ko punch though

Edit: no it wasn't


The smash deserves a few mention

 

Here's Spinks-Johnson, probably my favorite uppercut KO:

 

Here's a great uppercut KO I forgot about.

Duran's KO of Leonicio Ortiz.

 

Spinks’s KO of Marvin Johnson was the first to come to mind. Sort of a hooker cut

For some reason, single shot uppercut knockouts are rare compared to other punches like left hooks or right crosses (or the southpaw equivalent).

I know a big reason is the angle which hooks come from are often hard to see coming, but I don’t think a lot of these other monster uppercuts were seen by the guys taking them.

 

damn spinks was something else

 

I think last night was at least the GOAT left uppercut KO.