The quintessential example is maybe Chavez/Taylor. Not come from behind KOs, but examples when a fighter lay the groundwork for his eventual victory despite losing rounds in the process.
Andries-Harding 1 would be the second best example I can think of. Harding was losing rounds, but he was steadily breaking Andries down with a consistent body attack.
Gerry Penalosa losing every round against Jhonny Gonzalez to set up one of the most perfect body shot KOs ever filmed. Quite literally rounds worth of traps just to land it.
Porter / Spence. Injuries, complications, permanently damaged. Errol's been made lame. It proves we don't need woke judges to tell us what's up, when one man limps out of the ring and dies in the woods.
Toney vs Nunn. Nunn was almost in control of the fight while Toney was slowly wearing down Nunn Toney eventually rallied back with clean counter shots and also dropping Nunn with a left hook that would eventually end the fight. McCallum vs Curry. Curry looked like someone who was in command of the fight while slightly ahead, even hurting McCallum as well. But McCallum was slowly taking his time, wearing Curry down on the inside, and eventually caught him with a perfect left KO.
Diego Corrales-Acelino Freitas I thought that Toney-Nunn was closer than the judges had it, there was some hometown cooking for that judge to have to 9-1. Toney was coming on strong for quite awhile before the 11th.
Judah-Spinks I. Zab lost fairly on pts, but by the end he had Spinks solved and nearly KO’d. The writing was on the wall for the rematch.
That was very cool. The thing that gets me is that he actually landed a similar body shot a few times that round.. and about 1 minute prior to the KO he HURT Gonzalez bad with it… Gonzalez played it off like maybe it was low but he was clearly bothered and his posture completely changed from upright to hunched over. A minute later while he’s being counted out the commentators were shocked…How did they fail to catch that at all??
Never rewatched the fight but I remember Gonzales-Penasola looking like a classic case of a lucky punch, not being caused by a subtle switch of strategy.
I can honestly say, with the skill Penalosa showed throughout his career, nothing (or at least next to) he did was down to luck.
Yeah, i dont see it either. Penalosa was very passive in that fight, and I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have won it if that punch didnt land. I see it more as a ward vs sanchez or a weaver tate, than a Corrales Freitas
Not a.high level fight by any stretch of the imagination, but a recent example was zewski against mean machine. Zewski was doing well, and might have been ahead, but you could see mm was drowning him slowly
