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The Greatest Boxing Knock Outs The World Has Seen

It's quizzically contradicting that people would go on rallies and public outcries over wars and slaughters but won't bat an eyelash when viewing a boxing match, although less deadly but brutal and bloody nevertheless. Well, the answer for this paradox maybe as elusive as the science of brain surgery, a thing closer to Freudian, but it could be that people dig boxing because of what it symbolizes.

The greatest moments of boxing are those greatest boxing knock outs the world has seen, another contradiction. Every boxer is judged by his ability through his boxing knock outs in proportion to the matches he has participated and won. And by that people will cheer and fawn over those boxers that have the best boxing knock outs the world has ever seen.

Here are some of the best known boxing knock outs the world has seen.

When Muhammad Ali taunted a canvas ridden Sonny Liston during a controversial 1964 match in Maine, it became one of the best known boxing knock outs in history. It wasn't the most glorious, however, and neither was the fight. What propelled the event to renown was the image that preserved perfectly that part of history, a marvelous shot even with today's standard. It was a shot that depict an image of a man -a champion that despite his brashness was loved by many.

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Joe Frazier, during his heydays, was an unstoppable force. A pure bred of in fighter, "Smokin' Joe" Frazier was named as such due to his comparison to a locomotive, relentlessly advancing to the enemy until he closes to deliver a barrage of attacks that only a very few fighter can withstand. The few would include George Foreman. That night, Frazier was confident, but that would soon ebb away as Frazier's tank could never withstand a furry of powerful blows from Foreman.

It was a match between two champions, but in the match, was clearly a distance in terms of superiority. For all "Smokin' Joe" Frazier's unstoppable force, he could never move an also immovable object. Frazier took the canvas 6 times in two rounds, propelling the young winner top stardom and cementing the fight in boxing history.

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The rendering of Max Baer was typically of a villain, a powerful one -much of the boxer's dismay. Even though he was a gentleman, his destructive force had claimed an opponent's life and was suspect to another. That's why when James Braddock, known later as the Cinderella Man, was slated to face the killer champ, it was to the spectator's astonishment when Braddock made the greatest upset victory by winning over Baer.

 

 

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