Knockout of the weekend poll
by Brickhaus on Mar 21, 2010 3:57 PM EDT
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PrintWe had four pretty brutal knockouts this weekend. Take your pick as to which you think was the best.
Randall Bailey TKO1 Jackson Bonsu (knockout at 1:25)
Johnathon Banks KO6 Travis Walker (knockout at :17)
Wladimir Klitschko TKO12 Eddie Chambers (knockout at 3:26)
Jhonny Gonzalez KO2 Antonio Davis (knockout at 8:58, another pretty knockdown at 7:27)
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Gotta ride with Banks for the sheer comedy of it
That first fight should have been stopped before Bonsu did the Rashad Evans.
Drumond just quit between rounds
Unless he was knocked down after the TV broadcast cut out.
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voted for big bad wlad
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by battle axe of doom on Mar 21, 2010 4:30 PM EDT reply actions
What’s interesting about the Travis Walker knockout (which I’ve watched many times now) is that, as you watch him do his supposedly facefirst cartoon fall you can see two things:
1) His KNEE suddenly go forward and down first.
2) His forearm suddenly come up to brace his his fall, preventing his head from smashing off the canvas.
Does this stuff happen in legit kayos? Sure it does. But there was a fishy smell about this fight and its ending. Last night during the live coverage, someone made the comment that Travis “looked like he wanted to punch.” Yes, he sure did look like he wanted to.
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The More I see it...
The more it does look like he took a dive. His last lost before that against Manuel Quezada also suspiciously looked like a dive. It’s on YouTube.
Quezada’s KO of Walker looks nothing like a dive.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 23, 2010 7:58 AM EDT up reply actions
I don’t know man. There was SOME contact there. But the whole thing is just odd. I mean, after he got hit but before he went down he turns his head and looks at Banks. Then he does that weird thing where he looks up at the ceiling. But he gets his hands in front of him and his left knee out to make sure he doesn’t wack his head directly onto the floor – ala Ricky Hatton but frontal.
It’s strange – I’m not convinced it was a dive, but I can’t say it was legit either. I’ll just say it was suspicious. And, if it was taken alone it would’ve been one thing, but the rest of the card had so many bizarre finishes also.
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He kinda “looks at Banks” – like ‘wtf? – that’s not in the script, I’M going down not you’.
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Exactly
That’s exactly what that little look was about… a look of sheer terror seeing Banks on the canvas. Marcellus Wallace had a little chat with Walker in a Düsseldorf hotel room, and told him about the facts of life and the exchange rate of the Euro.
For those say “but there was contact,” yes of course there was. This isn’t 1932, and you can’t get away with diving from a whiff anymore. It is a shame.
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funny shit – Marcellus Wallace. It’s a chopper baby. Whose chopper is it? It’s Zed’s baby. Who’s Zed? Zed’s dead baby.
I went back and watched some Tye Fields fights. – This one really caught my eye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GCydGx3b9U
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That’s not the one I was thinking of. If I feel like wading through his sewer of versus fights I’ll try to post a link. This one was a whiff. Fields never lays a glove on him, and the guy goes over like a tree. The worst part is when Fields raises his hand afterwards. At least when you connect, there’s a good chance you didn’t know the fix was in, but Fields would have to be dumber than a bag of cement to think he legitimately won that one.
Fields is still fighting, too. He recently won the vacant USA Native American Boxing Council heavyweight title, which I hear comes with a free toaster.
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Sounds like Chris Koval
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I got Gonzalez
It was just a pretty ‘how-to’ for KOs. Jhonny sees his opponent is very weak. He doesn’t go straight for the head but a couple of shots to the body, and eventually his opponent starts to cover up the body. This action opens up the head for a bad left hook and game over insert extra coins!
Went with walker/banks
That was a pretty unique knockdown (although certainly the best technically).
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