Boxing in Media: A few Welterweight KO’s for the Fans

I am getting excited for the upcoming Terrence Crawford and Errol Spence title clash at the end of July. It got me thinking about a few nasty knockouts from the division since the beginning of the 2000’s. Here are a few KO’s I would like to share with my fellow boxing fans:

Randall Bailey KO 11 over Mike Jones

Randall “the Knockout-King” Bailey briefly held the IBF Welterweight Title in 2012 with this KO over the red hot rising Mike Jones who sat at 26-0. Jones was well ahead on all three scorecards when he hit the canvas in the tenth round and was dispatched in the eleventh. This was a brutal finish that essentially derailed Jones’s career.

Ricardo Mayorga TKO 5 Andrew Lewis

This 2002 WBA Welterweight Championship fight was the ascension of one of boxing’s more colorful characters of the last twenty-three years. Ricardo Mayorga was just becoming a name in the US and scored a brutal TKO here. The left hooks stunned Lewis who was stood up and sent down. This would precede Mayorga’s shocking KO of Vernon Forrest to unify the titles and make Mayorga an undisputed champion at welterweight.

Zab Judah TKO 9 Cory Spinks

This was a highly anticipated rematch of their undisputed welterweight title fight. Spinks, the son of heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, won the undisputed crown off of Ricardo Mayorga and defeated Judah by decision to defend the title. I felt Judah had won the first fight and Judah did not leave it to the judges in Spinks’s hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri as he detonated left crosses and right hooks to the champion.