10. CODY KOCH
May 23, 1998
Klitschko moved to 19-0, and made a successful first defence of his WBC International heavyweight championship, by chinning ‘The Alaskan Assassin’ in spectacular style.
9. Tony Thompson 2
July 7, 2012
Four years on from their first fight and Klitschko got the job done quicker . . . As in their first fight, Klitschko landed his right hand at will and jumped through the gears in the sixth round to blast Thompson out of the fight.
8. JEAN-MARC MORMECK
The 50th knockout of Klitschko’s career . . . Mormeck was a small, ring rusty former world cruiserweight champion and Klitschko did as he pleased, using him as target practice for most of the fight. He had Mormeck down in the second round and out in the fourth round.
7. ALEX LEAPAI
April 26. 2014
Strong, heavy handed, but technically limited, Leapai came from nowhere to get his shot at Klitschko’s WBO, WBA Super and IBF belts. He won only one of his first four pro fights, putting that down to his drinking and poor diet, but the Samoan-born Aussie turned his career around and got his shot after upsetting Denis Boytsov. Leapai reckoned his chin was one of his strengths, but he couldn’t take Klitschko’s right hand.
6. Samuel Peter 2
September 11, 2010
Known as ‘The Nigerian Nightmare,’ Peter had been a nightmare opponent for Klitschko five years earlier. Klitschko peeled himself off the canvas three times to scrape a points win and Peter went on to win and lose the WBC title before a rematch for Klitschko’s IBF and WBO belts. The fight was very different to their first clash. For round after round, Klitschko punished Peter and there were calls from ringsiders for the fight to be stopped several times before the conclusive 10th-round ending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFoSpuh52EE
5. Tony Thompson
July 12, 2008
There had been boos from the Madison Square Garden crowd after Klitschko added Sultan Ibragimov’s WBO belt to his IBF title and five months later, he put on a more fan-friendly show. Unheralded American left-hander Tony Thompson showed ambition in the early rounds before Klitschko got him under control and provided an exclamation-mark finish to his night’s work with what US commentators described as “a perfect right hand.”
4. Ray Austin
March 10, 2007
Austin, and his promoter Don King, had got under Klitschko’s skin by calling him “heartless” in the build up to the fight. Klitschko says that served as motivation for one of his most spectacular knock outs. Austin was out on his feet after being nailed him flush with a left hook in the second round and three or more put him to sleep.
3. Calvin Brock
November 11, 2006
Brock was a 29-0 former US Olympian, he lost his opening contest in Sydney in 2000 to Paolo Vidoz, but as did many others, he struggled to find a way past Klitschko’s jab. Klitschko softened him up with the punch, described by Emanuel Steward as his “magic left hand,” and when he let his right hand go in the seventh, the results were dramatic.
2. Kubrat Pulev
November 11, 2015
This was a fight between the top two heavyweights in the world – and the gap between them turned out to be huge. Down twice in the first round and once in the third, Pulev was laid out in the fifth by what commentator Richie Woodhall described as “one of the best left hooks you will ever see.”
1. Eddie Chambers
March 20, 2010
As Chris Eubank Jr has subsequently proved, the lead left hook is a very difficult punch to land and when Klitschko landed it on Eddie Chambers, it dramatically turned his lights out. It took Chambers, a slick boxer who went into the fight with a 35-1 record, a couple of minutes to recover from the finishing punch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHwUGG1YCI
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