How did he get up from THAT ?!!

[Sonny's jab]

Some of those knockdowns where it was truly incredible to see the guy get up and resume fighting.

Razor Ruddock against Bonecrusher Smith - that right hand the Bonecrusher landed was an absolute H-bomb of a punch. Ruddock hit the deck like a ton of bricks, all tangled up.

Larry Holmes against Earnie Shavers - that was one of Shavers' hardest shots, thrown with speed and out of the blue. Holmes was unbelievable, he always got up (except v.Tyson the 3rd kd, but the fight was waved off anyway).

Joe Frazier against George Foreman - the 2nd knockdown in the first round of their first fight. That uppercut connected full-on, with full force, Frazier must have been knocked senseless momentarily. His head rattled like a crash test. That punch is a finishing punch, a "goodnight" punch, but somehow Frazier got up.

[DamonD]

Ruddock-Morrison.
Come to think of it, Ruddock always seemed to look totally mangled and dead on the deck with his knockdowns. That guy had pretty impressive recuperative powers.

Here's one you don't hear much : Grant-Guinn?
Guinn's final left hook turned Grant's head temporarily into a completely different shape, and he face-planted on the canvas. Somehow he wobbled up to his feet by 8, but the ref wisely called it off. Looked for all the world that he wouldn't be getting up, imagine the Audley-Sprott KO but a bit heavier.

[TBooze]

Tommy Hearns actually got up after being nailed by Barkley and what was worse in a moment madness Steele let the fight continue!:patsch

Herol Graham got up from that punch delivered by The Hawk Jackson and fought John Ashton the very next week.;)

[Sonny's jab]

Ruddock-Morrison.
Come to think of it, Ruddock always seemed to look totally mangled and dead on the deck with his knockdowns. That guy had pretty impressive recuperative powers.

Here's one you don't hear much : Grant-Guinn?
Guinn's final left hook turned Grant's head temporarily into a completely different shape, and he face-planted on the canvas. Somehow he wobbled up to his feet by 8, but the ref wisely called it off. Looked for all the world that he wouldn't be getting up, imagine the Audley-Sprott KO but a bit heavier.


Yeah, I've seen Guinn-Grant. I forgot Grant got up though !
He looked out cold when he toppled over, a brutal last punch.


I forgot to mention Moorer-Cooper. Looked like Moorer was knocked out in the first round.

[The Kurgan]

Ruddock-Morrison.
Come to think of it, Ruddock always seemed to look totally mangled and dead on the deck with his knockdowns. That guy had pretty impressive recuperative powers.


Ruddock-Lewis in round 1 of their fight is a good one as well.

How about Foreman-Frazier 1, the last knockdown? Frazier tried to work on his vertical jump after being hit by a right uppercut. Frazier got up, but he was staggering like an old woman.

Grant-Lewis (the third knockdown) is another good one. How did Grant get up when Lewis had seemingly broken his legs? :huh

Buddy Baer-Joe Louis II, the final knockdown. Sure, Baer got counted out, but how did he EVER get up from that combo? :shock:

[C. M. Clay II]

Louis-Schmeling II the first knockdown, where he broke Schmeling's neck. I was suprised of how quicly Max got up from that one!:good

[Manassa]

Dick Tiger's right hand knockdown of Roger Rouse.

[Manassa]

Louis-Schmeling II the first knockdown, where he broke Schmeling's neck. I was suprised of how quicly Max got up from that one!:good

Louis broke a vertebrae or two if we go by old accounts and they were quite low down. Whatever the case, Schmeling was hurt badly but his neck was definitely intact.

[C. M. Clay II]

Louis broke a vertebrae or two if we go by old accounts and they were quite low down. Whatever the case, Schmeling was hurt badly but his neck was definitely intact.

Well, if his neck wasn't broken from that one, he had a strong neck! The way his head snapped and the loud scream he let out still makes me wonder how the fight didn't end right there.

[Manassa]

Well, if his neck wasn't broken from that one, he had a strong neck! The way his head snapped and the loud scream he let out still makes me wonder how the fight didn't end right there.

He screamed before the first knockdown. He screamed as he was on the ropes in reply not to the body shot that made his torso take a triangular form (seriously, pause it as the punch lands), but the one that landed behind his elbow towards the back of his ribcage shortly after.

[PhillyPhan69]

I seem to remember Rocky Lockridge Nailing Tony Lopez with a perfect MONSTER overhand right that sent Lopez across the ring and onto his back...not sure how he got up...let alone come back to win a decision!

[ChrisPontius]

Second knockdown of Jimmy Ellis by Frazier's left hook. Ellis looked like he got shot. I was also surprised by how Briggs kept getting up from monster combinations that landed flush from Lewis.

[joe33]

Jess willard gets a ton of shit from some,but he keep getting of his arse,against dempsey,WITH DEMPSEY standing right behind him hehe,guy was brave(or dumb) as fuck,some of those shots even on shitty old slow tape looked brutal,and must have been to put down the 6ft 7 willard

Primo canerra also took brutal punches from both max baer and others,but also seemed to get back up,guy may not have been much good(though i think he gets a rough time on that),but he was a really brave man

[Vantage_West]

I was watching Tyson-Ribalta (sp?) the other day and in the second round, Tyson connected with a right hand to the body followed by a right uppercut to the head. It was nasty, looked like it almost ripped his head off.the response form ribalta was amazing...almost like somone had just slapped him round the face a mixture of this:yikes and this :blood


also i would like to mentionthe teryr norris - julian jackson.

i have regarded norris as a stronger chinned thna poeple actualy believe but this was the one that proves it for me.

terry norris is backed up on the ropes while he was jabbing. julian throws a light left jab to the body which makes terry's gaurd drop a centmeter to low...becuase a huge right hand crashes on to norris's jaw and makes him stiffin like a corpse totally puts him to sleep then a left hook by julian made terry wakes him up again and then another right uppercut knocks him face first to the floor.

after all that terry gets up at the count of 8:shock:

[Vantage_West]

Second knockdown of Jimmy Ellis by Frazier's left hook. Ellis looked like he got shot. I was also surprised by how Briggs kept getting up from monster combinations that landed flush from Lewis.:good :good good call i recorded it tonight on chan 5 broadcast form ITV....very strange to watch. anyways great shot it was almost like a counter left hook...maybe the first ever check hook in history

[Pat_Lowe]

I always thought the shot Chavez took from Randall that floored him was pretty big. A right hand straight on the jaw and he got up in an instant

[Raging B(_)LL]

Featherweight champ Shozo Saijo got up at the count of 8 from one of the hardest right hand bombs I have ever seen land on a fighter`s chin, and the right hand was courtesy of none other than Antonio Gomez who was a terrific hitter especially with the right. How Sho got up from that punch I`ll never know, incredible really especially since he never saw it coming AND walked right into it... amazing. He got dropped twice more in the same round (5th) befoe the referee finally waved it off.

[Mega Lamps]

Carnera vs. Baer was pretty ridiculous. Dempsey - Firpo had its moments too.

For a more recent example, Holyfield-Savarese. Savarese gets hit with a perfect hook late in the fight and is dropped instantly. But somehow gets up and goes the distance.

[Bill1234]

LaStarza vs Marciano (rematch). Marciano hits LaStarza clean with a right uppercut that sends him through the ropes, and he is clearly on queer street, yet he gets up and continues to get battered.

Norris vs Mugabi, Norris nailed Mugabi with a great left hook that ultimately, won him the fight. He nailed Mugabi with more clean, hard blows, and finally Mugabi goes down, I have no idea how he got up. He was clearly out on his feet.

Hatton vs Mayweather, Mayweather hit Hatton with the "Check Hook" (left hook), and Hatton center ring goes down, but it was in the corner, and after the shot smashes his face into the ring post.

Mercardo vs Shavers, Shavers hit Mercardo with a right hand from hell, and Mercardo went down hard, but he got up (very hurt though). The punch acctually imploded Shavers glove (as legend says).

[Duodenum]

The right hand Ingo sucker punched Floyd Patterson with to register the second knockdown in their first bout was a monstrous shot. Of course Floyd saw the referee counting as he got up from the first knockdown, and was so dazed that he thought Ruby Goldstein was administering a standing eight count to Ingo on a knockdown Patterson himself had scored against his challenger. Frequently, the punch that puts a knockout victim out for the count is one he never sees coming, and Floyd obviously was in that situation when Ingo flattened him that second time.

While Floyd was certainly dropped and knocked silly on nearly countless occasions, he ALWAYS got back up on his own, and would have beaten a slower ten count both times the referee tolled it to completion in his two matches with Liston.

Marciano got up from the hardest punch ever landed by history's most prolific knockout artist, Archie Moore. The first right hand Yvon Durelle decked Archie with was described by the Ole' Mongoose as the hardest single punch he was ever on the receiving end of in his long, storied career.

Although Cuevas's chief second rushed in to stop his bout against Hearns, the fact remains that Pipino got up from Tommy's devastating right hand at the count of seven. Stribling also got up from a monstrous round 15 counter right at the hands of Schmeling, though the referee again stopped it.

It is an extraordinary achievement when a boxer can deliver a huge knockdown punch in round 15 of a bruising war. When the recipient of such a bomb can get back up on his feet so late in a grueling endurance contest to finish the scheduled distance, that can be even more amazing. By round 14 in Manila, the punches of Ali and Frazier were essentially reduced to mere slaps, according to ringsiders. But Muhammad got up quickly in the FOTC, as did Bonavena against Ali after the best hook Muhammad ever delivered. Bazooka Limon also managed to struggle to his feet after Bobby Chacon punctuated their legendary rivalry with his distinctive right handed pitch and
follow-through.

Dempsey nailed Tunney flush with his hook as Gene ricocheted off the ropes directly into it. Tunney himself believed that the first hook Jack flattened Willard with was the hardest punch recorded on film in the 20th Century's first 50 years.

Ritchie Kates pitched Matt Franklin face first in the dirt, but the future Saad Muhammad rose up to stop him with a shot of his own which sent Kates stumbling forward completely across the ring.

Carmen Basilio dropped Kid Gavilan with a double hook which looks tremendous on the film footage. Considering Gavilan's fabled chin, one might comfortably assume Basilio delivered a lethal sock to his head. (As for Carmen's right, most of you have seen what it did to Tony Marino. Like Larry Holmes, George Foreman, Jim Brown and Bob Gibson, this is a man not to be messed with, no mattter how old he gets.)

[DamonD]

I was watching Tyson-Ribalta (sp?) the other day and in the second round, Tyson connected with a right hand to the body followed by a right uppercut to the head. It was nasty, looked like it almost ripped his head off.
Yes, good one! Ribalta took some devastating shots in that one. Probably should've been given the benefit of the doubt to make it those last 90 seconds or so, for a bit of a moral victory.

And that reminds me of Tyson-Jesse Ferguson. Tyson's uppercut that floored him and apparently broke his nose. Ferguson went down HARD on his back but still managed to get up.