This list is godawful

This popped into my YouTube feed this morning:


It's hard to imagine a worse attempt at a top 10 welterweight KOs list.

So, let's create a better list.

What are your top 10 all-time welterweight KOs?

If you want to limit it to just those on film, that's fine because I don't think it's possible to do worse than what Top Rank has done with its video...

Or if you just want to rip into the above video, be my guest!

 

I'd have to think about the other nine, but for me, Leonard vs Dave Green is the best welterweight KO.

 

Hearns-Cuevas would be number 1 for me.

 

Curry-McCrory

 

Trinidad-Blocker has gotta be up there.

 

clearly marketing collateral for crawford who happens to have a ppv this weekend

 

the rest of the list was probably shit so it wouldn't outshine crawford's

 

Of the Donald Curry knockouts, they pick Rodriguez and not Milton McCrory??

JMM-Pacquiao 4 is obviously up there.

Some others that come to mind

SRL-Green
Trinidad-Blocker
Trinidad-Zulu
Hearns-Cuevas

 

Simon Brown's KO of Jorge Vaca deserves mention.

As does Palomino's KO of Dave Green.

 

#01: Leonard vs Green
#02. Marquez vs Pacquiao IV
#03. Hearns vs Cuevas
#04. Griffith vs Paret III
#05. Trinidad vs Blocker

 

Basilio vs DeMarco is pretty cool.

 

Surprised to see hearns cuevas so high on a few lists. Technically, it wasnt even a ko, since it.was stopped by the corner after cuevas beat the count

 

That was my thoughts as well.

I don't see how Hearns-Cuevas beats Leonard-Green. Green was out cold as a rock.

 

I'd have Leonard-Green top too, that was a legitimately scary knockout. Green was out cold and still took some full-leathered shots on the way down.

 

One which absolutely has to be mentioned is Geoff McCreesh vs Dingaan Thobela.

Thobela went on to win- in controversial circumstances- and then LOSE it likewise- the 168lb Title years after the fact.

McCreesh was a hard man but he was nothing special. Absolutely nothing special.

So for him to go to Africa and ice Thobela with one right hand- the way he did it- was a bit special.

Might be the best on-the-road KO by a non-elite British fighter.

 

Cintron's KO of Walter Matthysse was brutal.

 

there is no debate that the top welterweight KO was clearly 3 time champ randall bailey ending the career of unbeaten champ mike jones with 1 brutal uppercut

 

WHO??

 

Green was tough as nails. To see him laid out like that was surreal.

Trinidad-Zulu was another one.

Hearns-Cuevas was also ugly.

 

This one if it had landed a couple of seconds earlier:

 

dingbat throbela aka 'Baby Jake'... beautiful shiny nut, never down once.

 

What was controversial in Tobela vs Catley?

 

Catley said afterwards that Thobelas gloves were loaded and he felt he was being hit with "Glass Ashtrays".

Catley had fought good guys, never a problem, suddenly he's getting beaten down by a former Lightweight.

Could be BS, could be true, but David Hilton did beat Thobela in his very next fight.

 

Whitout any proof, it's as credible as byrd claims that wlad put poison on his gloves

 

Yeah but you'll find one of those claims got a lot of serious play. One of them didn't.

Catley was allowed to make his claim in Boxing Monthly, and they didn't go any further. They quoted him and left it at that.

 

i'm inclined to believe hatley

 

LOL. Double is ALWAYS looking for a glove conspiracy.

 

Charles Hatley? What his claims on the catley situation?