Powerful lighter fighters

Gennady Golovkin has an astonishing 91% knockout rate but where does that rank in the scheme of the sport’s heaviest hitters?

Heavyweights are renowned for devastation but there have been some fiercely destructive fighters in the lower weight divisions as well.

Big men such as Anthony Joshua, Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson continue to light up the weightier categories by reeling off knockouts but what can be even more impressive is similar brutality dished out by naturally smaller men.

As WBA Super, WBC and IBF world middleweight king Golovkin (35-0-KO32) prepares to try and decimate Kell Brook’s unbeaten record on Saturday – live on Sky Sports Box Office, we serve up some reminders of other fighters famous for their finishes.

Julian Jackson

The Virgin Islands’ most famous sporting export, Jackson was known as ‘The Hawk.’ Only three of his first 50 fights went the distance and two of those were knockout defeats to two other wrecking-ball punchers; Mike McCallum and Gerald McClellan.

Jackson’s highlights reel is littered with gems but the devastating left hook that relieved Buster Drayton of the WBA super-welterweight title, the shuddering right and following combination that dispatched Terry Norris, or the one-punch counter that laid Herol Graham out shine particularly brightly.

Jackson hung up his gloves in 1998 after back-to-back knockout defeats but has stayed in the sport courtesy of his sons’ involvement; Julius …

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