The most unheralded KO's

[battleship25]

I was watching one of my CHI trading partner's tape (82-88) and was caught by a few surprises. Well , one to be sure: Steve "Stumpy" Thomas(CHI) with a beauty of a KO over Dennis Owchar (?) on PIT. Another one on there was a secret favorite Jaime Macoun KOing Jerome Dupont in front of the Hawk' net. Dupont was willing but rarely ever won. In fact CHI colorman Dale Tallon commented during his second fight of the gm vs Plett " Hey, he finally got a victory in 4 fights... I think Kordic pummeled him, then Macoun( KO'd), then beat up by Plett in the first fight and finally winning vs Plett.


for me a few other examples-

Mellanby -J.Jackson

Russell- KOing Kimble (that shocked me)

Dineen - Kluzak

How about you guys ??

[pesadillamal]

McGill against Kocur

Bob McGill Tko's Joey Kocur - YouTube

[srehm1]

I remember Scott Kleinendorst dropping Cam Neely. That might fit in as being underrated.

I also recall Nevin Markwart tkoing Mike Foligno. I hated Foligno for dropping O'Reilly the year before (also another underrated tko) and Markwart got some level of revenge for it with a beauty of a right.

[spiderarms]

Originally Posted by battleship25

I was watching one of my CHI trading partner's tape (82-88) and was caught by a few surprises. Well , one to be sure: Steve "Stumpy" Thomas(CHI) with a beauty of a KO over Dennis Owchar (?) on PIT. Another one on there was a secret favorite Jaime Macoun KOing Jerome Dupont in front of the Hawk' net. Dupont was willing but rarely ever won. In fact CHI colorman Dale Tallon commented during his second fight of the gm vs Plett " Hey, he finally got a victory in 4 fights... I think Kordic pummeled him, then Macoun( KO'd), then beat up by Plett in the first fight and finally winning vs Plett.


for me a few other examples-

Mellanby -J.Jackson

Russell- KOing Kimble (that shocked me)

Dineen - Kluzak

How about you guys ??

The Mellanby fight with Jackson came right to mind. That spin cycle led Jackson right into the punch.

The Best KO's All-time of course were Jonathan on Bouchard, Kocur on Kyte, Wilson on Hilworth, Byers on Cochrane, Gillies on Hospodar, but I think these were pretty well heralded.

Though not as well known as his KO of Kyte, Kocur laid out Don Jackson of Edmonton and did some serious damage.

Some other KO's that was not as well publicized were Stu Grimson on Reid Simpson, Rob Ray on Jim Kyte, Ryan Vandebusse on Nick Kypreos, Twist on Peluso.

[JKidd]

An all time favorite that gets overlooked quite a bit:

jonathan aitken vs john tripp - YouTube

As pure and devastating as a knockout could be.

[Johnny Pie]

How about one that everyone will remember Curt Bennett's KO of Dave Maloney. It might not have been fair but it was lights out.

[Johnny Pie]

here is the result of the punch along with the story.

[Johnny Pie]

Couple of others I remember involve a player who is always
talked about for the fights he lost. Keith Magnuson.
Well he Ko'd Earl Heiskala of the Flyers who was supposed
to be a tough guy and of course his one punch on Carol Vadnais. Keith did have his moments.
Both of these are on video.
Here is a pic of the Earl Heiskala KO. Earl was busted up pretty good.

[rondo]

Jimmy "crack" Korn's TKO on all-time great Marty Mcsorely

[Shoryuken]

Jay Wells gets Doug Lidster good here after a goal:

86-11-26 Jay Wells KOs Lidster - YouTube

The replay, showing Lidster blankly staring back at the camera, clearly out, is a little freaky.. seldom mentioned though.

[Howatt8]

Originally Posted by Johnny Pie

Couple of others I remember involve a player who is always
talked about for the fights he lost. Keith Magnuson.
Well he Ko'd Earl Heiskala of the Flyers who was supposed
to be a tough guy and of course his one punch on Carol Vadnais. Keith did have his moments.
Both of these are on video.
Here is a pic of the Earl Heiskala KO. Earl was busted up pretty good.

Earl Heiskala, the original Broad Street Bully, lol.

That Magnuson KO was kind of funny because the Flyers brought up Heiskala as a result of the beating they took from the Blues in the 68 playoffs. During that series, the Blues hammered the Flyers with the Plagers and Noel Picard running roughshod over them. It all culminated with the Picard suckerpunch on Claude LaForge. That was when Ed Snider had seen enough and determined that he was going to build a team that would never be intimidated again.

It was shortly after those playoffs that they brought in their first goon, Earl Heiskala. He then proceeded to get knocked out by Magnuson, lol.

Obvisouly, the Flyers got a lot better in choosing their goons after Heiskala.

There was an interesting rookie game back in 1978 between the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers in Hershey that featured 9 fights. It is also an interesting side story to the Fotiu/Cunningham brawl.

While this was billed as a rookie game, there was some bad blood between these teams and everyone knew this game would be fight filled so Washington sent Gary Rissling and Brent Tremblay, Paul Mulvey, Gord Lane, Nelson Burton, Mark Lofthouse and Mark Toffolo down to play in this game. Since this game happened to be on the same day as the Fotiu/Cunningham brawl, both Cunningham and Cochrane weren't in this game as they were called up to play for the big squad that day, otherwise, they'd have been there for that rookie game. There were 9 fights without Cunningham and Cochrane. Imagine if they'd have been there, lol.

The unheralded KO came in the form of Paul Mulvey vs a guy named Mike Simurda. Now Mulvey had a huge rep and Simurda was not regarded as much of a fighter. It was comical actually as Mulvey kept goading Simurda into dropping the gloves, but Simurda was very reluctant. When he finally did, he nailed Mulvey with a wicked right and down goes Mulvey, lol. As far as I'm concerned, couldn't have happened to a better guy as we now know that Mulvey would later become the poster child for the anti-fighting movement.

[GOON 21]

Some great pics and stories so far guys


1 memorable KO that is NEVER mentions is Eric Cairns of the Islanders against Rich Scott of the Rangers around 2003 or so, Scott had a heavy rep and the new Ranger young enforcer and Cairns was really getting on a roll and hammering guys and just blasted him and the guy NEVER played another NHL game again


Thats a combination of impressive, amd kinda sad as well

[mikebflorida]

Originally Posted by GOON 21

Some great pics and stories so far guys


1 memorable KO that is NEVER mentions is Eric Cairns of the Islanders against Rich Scott of the Rangers around 2003 or so, Scott had a heavy rep and the new Ranger young enforcer and Cairns was really getting on a roll and hammering guys and just blasted him and the guy NEVER played another NHL game again


Thats a combination of impressive, amd kinda sad as well

Yeah really, get called up and the coach says, "ok here's your shot, make the best of it" and whammo, it's all over, NHL career down the tubes. Wonder what would have happened if he won that fight or earned a draw at least?

[BaddaBing Badda Boom]

Here is a guy who hit just as hard as Kocur, Brown, Twist

Peters vs M.Johnson ko - YouTube

[2,5,10GameMatch]

Nylund on Kocur

Nylund on Dirk Graham

Clark on McGill

Clark on Maley

Clark on Mackey

Domi on Beukeboom

Domi on Steve Smith

Todd Gill on Robin Bawa

Hartman on McGill...........

Battleship, you were close but it was Perry Ganchar who Thomas dropped on Pitt.

I felt Korn was legit on McSorley.