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Sunday Punch: Julian Jackson sends Wayne Powell into the astral plane

There are a few fighters whom I’ve already featured multiple times on this Sunday Punch series. I’ve waited a bit too long to give Julian Jackson his second appearance.

“The Hawk” was one of the greatest punchers in boxing history. Most of his knockouts were of the “you’re not getting up and probably need to be speedily taken to the ER unit” variety. Last time he was on this series I highlighted his brutal destruction of Herol Graham, but the fight before that one was vicious in a different way.

On June 16th, 1990 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, Jackson took a tune-up fight against Wayne Powell on the undercard of Mike Tyson vs.