We’re fast approaching the 25-year anniversary of a truly memorable boxing knockout, and one that looked unlikely on paper.
Simon Brown was once one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. The Jamaican, known as “Mantaquilla” by his legendary trainer Pepe Correa, held major titles at welterweight (147 lbs) and super-welterweight (154 lbs), and had beaten the likes of Tyrone Trice (twice), Terry Norris, and Maurice Blocker over the course of his career.
Having lost the rematch to Norris and thus his WBC super-welterweight belt, Brown won a couple of “get well” fights and launched back into a title bout with IBF champ Vincent Pettway on April 29th, 1995.