Looking at Some of Boxing's Most Brutal KO's

Did Willie Pepp die in the ring? That name stands out to me for some reason. I don't believe so Okay, Benny Perrette died in the ring Benny Perrette was killed by Emil Griffith Emil Griffith beat him to death in the ring after Benny Perrette teased him for being gay. He kept talking shit about him being gay He beat the shit out of him. Oh was he gay? I believe so I believe so. I think that was the rumor Wow, he beat him to death, but that wasn't illegal, right? Nope I mean, he wasn't trying to he's trying to knock him out But it's a I forget what they call that fight see if you fight that fight because that's a rough one to watch the end Emil Griffiths was up the fight that like change correct change boxing But they had to play like crack down on my safety rule. No the one that did that was Ray Boom Boom, Mancini versus duck who Kim That was the one where duck who Kim died and I think that was when they started to go to 12 rounds I think they go went to 12 rounds slightly after that because they were doing 15 rounds before And I think duck who Kim died in the 13th or 14th round. I forget which round I think they had decided that 12 rounds would be the right one. So this is Emil Griffith versus Benny Perrette and this is the one where you know, he was taunting him and Emil Griffith just fucking I'm guessing the guy on the right was the gay guy The guy on the right is Emil Griffith. Yes. Okay, that's the that's the guy with the I don't know if he's gay But that's what that's what he was about. Yeah, and that was he was definitely being teased about that But that was the rumor that he was but look dude, he just beats the fucking show So he's stuck in the ropes and Emil Griffith just teeing off on him while he's out So he's trapped in the ropes and he collapses and then he's dead. He's dead right now. Yeah, he's dead, man. Wow Hey beat him to death Watch that again watch that combination again because it's so crazy uppercut and then he backs up right hand Yeah, this right here right hand the rest should have stopped it right hand right hand right hand right hand right hand He's trapped. The only thing keeping him up is the punches the punches are so hard They're they're keeping his body upright as he's leaning up against the rope cuz he did right here Bang well, he's out right here right like right there. You could have stopped it right there Right here turning away and he's hitting it with bomb after bomb and he keeps going one two one two one two one two I mean he's just swinging at him afterwards and the ref just said they like this Yeah, there's been some horrific moments like that. Do you remember that? Who was the one guy? I can't remember his fucking name, but he Ray Mercer versus Tommy Morrison We were this that's on the bus from rocky, right? Yeah, no, never saw that one. That might be the worst one ever I'm talking about the guy who he didn't die in the ring But but he had like all this promise Oh, Joe McClellan. Maybe that's what I'm talking about You're talking about. Yeah, he was the guy that was a rival for Roy Jones jr So as Roy Jones jr. Was a champ and he was a champ and he fought Nigel Ben and he almost put Nigel Ben out in the first round, but they collided heads at one point in the fight and Nigel Ben hit him with some real good punches and he went down and took a knee and then he went back to his corner and He he quit and they couldn't believe that he like he took a 10 count and everyone's like I can't believe he's taking a 10 count And he went back to his corner and he was so fucked up That he just let it over. Yeah, this is him So he had Nigel Ben and all sorts of trouble knocked him out of the ring, right? Nigel Ben was one of the toughest motherfuckers to ever box. He got back in the ring and survived So Nigel Ben knocked out of the ring and here's him after that So Jeremy Cloulin is just emptying the fucking gas tank here Just swinging with everything he had and Jeremy Cloulin was a fucking murderous puncher. He knocked everybody out So he was assuming he was about to knock Nigel Ben out, too But Nigel Ben wasn't going anywhere And so Jeremy Cloulin got fucking drained and then Nigel started catching up Look at that left hook Nigel catches them and Gerald tags him again right hand uppercut But Nigel Ben just kept coming and look he catches him with that right hand Look at that left hook imagine being that hurt in the first round and Nigel Ben just comes Storming out later in the fight. Yeah, that's crazy the resilience crazy the endurance So Gerald McClellan emptied his gas tank and I just catching him now catch them with a big left hook And at one point in time they collided heads and it was a bad one. It was like a bang And you think that's what did it? No, no, no, it was all these punches for sure But it was like I think it was a collision of heads as well that someone had identified That was really bad, but he hit him with some fucking bombs Look he dropped him again so Gerald eventually comes back and drops Nigel again the eighth round and Nigel gets back up and he's like still not going anywhere. Boom. It's him with the left hook This is after getting dropped again. I'm after hitting the motherfucker with everything you got look at this combination Boom Nigel over the top of that right hand So that what the point is this was a fucking war and there's another brilliant one. So we see like where he takes a knee Boom look at that right hand. This is fucking another right hand. So that's where it was. That's where he takes a knee This was sad. So he decided to stay down So he gets hit he gets I guess he got up for the first one, right? Is that what they're saying? So he goes down a second time So this is a second and then look you see him like wincing in pain like holding his head and that's when he decided to stay Down and so everybody's like I can't believe he you know, he quit on his knee like that but then he went back into his corner and he slumped and He really never recovered he went to the hospital and he's alive still but he's like severely disabled and I believe he's blind What did it cause like a brain bleed? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that's the risk that these guys are taking man I mean, that's a crazy sport You're throwing haymakers at each other with like thick padding over the top of it and that's that's him today and This like greatly affected Roy Jones jr Too because you got to think that Roy and him almost fought Right, like they that was like a big super fight that people were setting up for the future And Roy and him down the line did wind up fighting that could have been Roy or that it could have been Gerald like It could have been either one of them Like when when two guys are that good and they're swinging the way those guys were at each other My money would have still been on Roy though Roy Roy and his prime was fucking In his prime no one could touch him he would win entire rounds without him a hit to me You know what I compare Roy to is Anderson silver Where is similar in that way like there was just so dominant for a while and he would win in such stylish fashion You know where it was it wasn't just that he was winning, but he just made you look silly You know, he was doing movie shit. He was doing movie shit Roy put his hand behind his back and then knocked guy with one punch Yeah, put his hand behind his back duct and then popped him with a right hand and knocked him out But just like both is like eventually it catches up to you where it's like, you know It's like you hit an age where like you don't realize but you just a millisecond slower. Yeah, there's that There's also this other speculation that speculation is that he went up to heavyweight to fight John Ruiz and so he had a pack on weight and then he went back down to light heavyweight and I think the losing the weight to get back down diminished him severely and then he fought Antonio Tarver and Antonio Tarver was a murderous puncher and a motherfucker of a boxer Antonio Tarver could box and he said in the ring to Roy because they had had one fight previously where it went to a decision and You know and Roy had some excuses I guess and so he says in the ring for the second fight You got any excuses tonight Roy? The referee goes any questions any questions and he goes got any excuses tonight Roy and Roy didn't say anything and Tarver went up knocking him out and then after that he just kept getting knocked out right he got knocked out bad after that What do you think that is with after somebody gets knocked out? It's almost like it's easier to knock him out after that Well, he fought Glenn Johnson after that who is a very talented Contender who people like I think Glenn Johnson was a little older at the time and maybe people overlooked him He like he really had great success like later in his career But Glenn Johnson knocked out Roy in a scary knockout pull that one up Glenn Johnson Roy Jones jr That was a scary one because this was after the Tarver one, but the Tarver one he was kind of he was conscious But he was fucked up I mean Tarver cracked him and he went down but he was out right but he was moving around This one's even scarier because he bangs the back of his head when he goes down and this was the comeback fight Right and so Glenn Johnson was like a suitable comeback opponent But nobody told Glenn Johnson that like Glenn Johnson came to that fight to win and Glenn Johnson has his high guard He's like really difficult style to deal with and super super tough guy Just very very skillful and you know This was Roy coming off of getting KO'd and whenever a guy comes off of getting KO'd the odds of him getting KO'd again Go up. I don't know. It depends on the person some of them It doesn't go up at all some of them It only goes up slightly but some of them it goes up a lot for whatever reason it might be the damage They took from the first knockout. It could be a lot of factors. Look at this. Boom. He hit some of that right hand Look how he goes out He goes out stiff He banged his head off the ground like watch that again because it's it is a fucking brutal series of punches. He hits him with Back here guys, so he gets him up against the ropes sets him up for the right hand and boom He's out one hard right hand this side of the head and Roy's out That was a rough one. Nothing like Ray Mercer versus Tommy Morris It's like your brain going we're not taking any chances Probably go down. There's probably some something to that Get Ray Mercer versus Tommy Morrison This one was one of the worst and this one was one after the movie So Ray Mercer people thought about him as like this like gold medalist in the Olympics murderous puncher Like he was a guy who's on the up like he was coming up and somehow or another they set him up with Tommy Morrison Who was a very good boxer and had beaten some good guys, but he was just coming off of this movie So he was the fucking the in the rocky movies and he's fighting a guy that's just been doing nothing But boxing now Tommy Morrison's a movie star now and he's a young guy. He's got to be distracted I mean he's got to be not focused Right and he's fighting a guy that he probably would have lost to anyway because Ray Mercer was a motherfucker And so Tommy is doing well in the fight for a while But then Mercer eventually catches him because Tommy starts getting tired And this one of the things about Tommy Morrison if you look at Tommy Morrison in the early stages of his fights He was always better. He would fade and Eventually Ray Mercer catches him he hits him with that right hand and watch this boom. Hmm. He's in trouble here, right? Boom, boom, boom, boom. Now. This is why it's the worst one ever. Oh Bro, he's tangled up in the ropes and the referee is too small to pull Mercer off of him So he hits them with multiple punches why he's out cold Referee doesn't get in there. Look look how he gets in there. The referees just say hey you stop Hey you he's scared cuz he's a little old guy. He shouldn't be referee in this fight These are two elite heavyweights. These are enormous men and this poor referee is old got a little potbelly He doesn't want to dive in there and get fucking murked. Yeah Yeah, and so because of that Tommy Morrison takes haymaker So he's out cold and Ray Mercer is just full blast teeing off and another left hook after that While the referee was holding on to his arms bro Might be the worst if he survived he lived but he was never the same boxer yet No, no way he beat some good guys after that. He actually beat George Foreman after that Yeah, old George old George Foreman. He won a decision off of old George Foreman. Look at that left hook Boom boom right hand. I mean this is horrendous, dude This is we're looking at it from a different angle now. Look at this I mean come on man boom and then still He's fully out cold that he got hit four or five times clean This is like Benny Perrette all over again. This easily could have been the end of his life Yeah, easily could have been and probably changed his brain cuz right here like I mean, what is this rough weight? I mean, but seriously do like this probably probably changed his brain forever What is it this reference waiting to see I don't know man That is a crazy beating because when you see a mother getting hit in the face and they're not trying to stop it I think the fights over you need a big referee with big men You just you need someone who could separate those you need Herb Dean He'd be diving in like he'd ever first base Mark Goddard Big guy, you know jump big John McCarthy was always great at it. He's a big guy. You want a big guy for big guys