Named fighters KO'd in 1

I watched the Whitaker vs Hurtado fight this past weekend on FNF and saw Pernell go down on the first punch. He got up to win by ko in the late rounds but it got me thinking.

How many "named" fighters have been KO'd in the first round?

Off the top of my head I can only remember 2. Tua vs Ruiz and Tua vs Moorer. After looking up Tua, I can add Sullivan to the list as well.

This isn't a Tua love him or hate him thread, I'm just looking to have the question answered.

Carl Williams v Tyson
Iran Barkley v Nigel Benn
spring to mind

Mike Tyson KO1 Michael Spinks
Michael Nunn KO1 Sumbu Kalambay (1st fight I ever attended, my dad got us real good seats. He was pissed)

Tyson over Spinks and Carl Williams
Lewis over Golota
PDL over Bautista
Louis over Max II
Hamed over Hardy
Marciano over Walcott II
Arguello was KO'ed in 1 rd. in his pro-debut
Nelson over Cowdell which also happens to be one of the most brutal KO's you will ever see

Well i will do tkos aswell as just kos.

Iran Barkley
Alexis Arguello
Carl Williams
Trevor Berbick
Michael Spinks
Jersey Joe Walcott
Tommy Morrison
Henry Tillman
Andrew Golota
Gerrie Coetzee
Alex Stewart
Pinklon Thomas
Tony Tubbs
Sumbu Kalambay
Ken Norton

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Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al

Carl Williams v Tyson
Iran Barkley v Nigel Benn
spring to mind

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That wasn't a boxing match that was a street fight. It was almost like Hagler vs. Hearns in one round. Barkley is a bad mother fuker and wasn't backing down from shat.

Montell Griffin
Oleg Maskaev

One that stands out in my memory: TYSON vs SPINKS O0

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Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Tyson over Spinks and Carl Williams
Lewis over Golota
PDL over Bautista
Louis over Max II
Hamed over Hardy
Marciano over Walcott II
Arguello was KO'ed in 1 rd. in his pro-debut
Nelson over Cowdell which also happens to be one of the most brutal KO's you will ever see

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Brewster also over Golota

Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson

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Originally Posted by SweetPea

Sonny Liston
Floyd Patterson

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Wow, I was just about to post liston, good catch with patterson too.

Tyson-Spinks was the first one that came to my mind.

It happened twice to Golota with Lewis & Brewster doing a job on him.

Marquez went down 3 times in the first round against Pac (How he came back from that I'll never know)

Bautista to Ponce De Leon 2 weeks ago

I believe 19 KOs in round 1 by Edwin Valero's record?

And 10 for DPDL?

Eamonn Magee knocked Hatton down in the 1st minute of the first round when they fought in 2002 which Hatton got up from and out pointed Magee.

Bonecrusher done Witherspoon in the 1st