Photo: STEPHANIE TRAPP/TGB
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
THE shuddering straight right from Deontay Wilder against Dominic Breazeale that made the Brooklyn crowd gasp upon impact; Sam Maxwell putting an end to Sabri Sediri’s mocking in Leicester by levelling him with a right hook; The devastating right hand from Yunier Dorticos that put Andrew Tabiti to sleep in Riga, Latvia; Nonito Donaire’s classic one-punch left hook knockout of Stephon Young in Lafayette, Louisiana; The wicked right hand from Vergil Ortiz Jnr that removed Mauricio Herrera from consciousness in Las Vegas; Joshua Buatsi’s mammoth right hand that thundered into Liam Conroy’s chin in Stratford, pitching him headlong into the canvas; Dave Allen’s pulverising left hook to the body that dispatched Lucas Browne in Greenwich; The swift and powerful overhand left from Jazza Dickens that landed square on Nasibu Ramadhan’s jaw in Liverpool; Pawel August’s breathtaking left hook to the liver which rendered Robert Halas unable to beat the count in Torquay; Gabe Flores Jnr’s caterwauling check left hook that flattened Eduardo Reis in Stockton, California; Marco McCullough’s short right hand that dropped Declan Geraghty hard in Belfast; The sizzling, picture-perfect overhand right from Devin Haney that left Antonio Moran lying catatonic on the mat in Oxon Hill, Maryland; Gennady Golovkin loading up on a bone-chilling left hand that decked Steve Rolls face-first in New York; James Metcalf’s spiteful left to the body that sent Jason Welborn to his knees in Leeds; Jermell Charlo’s textbook onetwo combination that instantly felled Jorge Cota in Las Vegas; The highlight-reel counter left from Miguel Angel Gonzalez that left Saul Rodriguez stretched out on his back in Temecula, California; Marcus Morrison’s thumping right hand down the middle that accounted for Emanuele Blandamura in Rome; The brutal five-punch combination from Dereck Chisora that wiped out Artur Szpilka in Greenwich; Mikael Lawal’s booming left hook that floored Damian Chambers heavily in Altrincham; The crunching left hook at the end of a savage sequence from James Tennyson that left Atif Shafiq with his legs folded beneath him in Greenwich; Archie Sharp’s left to the chin of Declan Geraghty in Kensington that was so powerful the fight was instantly halted; Kazunori Nakayama’s explosive left hand that knocked Lerdchai Chaiyawed out cold in Kariya, Japan.