A-Farce: Audley Harrison is tended to by the referee after being flattened by David Price. Pic: Scott Heavey/Getty Images
A-Farce: Audley Harrison is tended to by the referee after being flattened by David Price. Pic: Scott Heavey/Getty Images
A-Farce: Audley Harrison is tended to by the referee after being flattened by David Price. Pic: Scott Heavey/Getty Images
A-Farce: Audley Harrison is tended to by the referee after being flattened by David Price. Pic: Scott Heavey/Getty Images

Five of boxing's quickest title knockouts


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Poor old Audley Harrison.  The former Olympic champion was comprehensively destroyed by David Price in his latest attempt to salvage something from a disappointing pro career.

It took the Scouser - himself a former Olympic medal winner - just 82 seconds to dump Fraudley in their British and Commonwealth title match in the UK last night, putting Harrison in the unwelcome list of title fighters who've lasted barely a punch.

Here's our pick of the five most memorable quickfire title fights.

Mike Tyson v Michael Spinks An incredible winner-takes-all bout between the two best heavyweights on the planet in 1988, with the WBA, WBC, IBF and Ring Magazine belts all on the line and a $34m combined purse making it the biggest fight of its kind at the time. Tyson's victory took just 91 seconds, which included the ten-count and a warning to Tyson from the referee about using his elbow.

Chris Eubank v Reginaldo Dos Santos Everyone remembers the brutal 1990 bout between Eubank and Nigel Benn - himself a specialist in quick KOs - for the WBO world middleweight title, but Eubank's warm-up fight two months earlier at the Royal Albert Hall was just as notable.  Eubank wrapped up his win in just 20 seconds to defend the WBC international title.  Superstardom was one fight away...

Naseem Hamed v Said Lawal Naz's flashy, brash style outside the ring was matched by some remarkably quick victories inside it.  In 1996, the 22-year-old Hamed took just 35 seconds to defeat Nigeria's Said Lawal in Glasgo, making his first defense of the WBO featherweight strap.  Hamed floored the older man with his first punch, taunted him a bit, then ending the fight with his second.

Bernard Hopkins v Steve Frank The dominant middleweight B-Hop was often tagged as boring in his career, but his explosive three punch, 24 second win over Franks - who took the fight at short notice - was anything but as he defended his IBF middleweight title for the first time.

Daniel Jimenez v Harald Geier Debatably the quickest title knockout of all time.  Jiminez gave the previously undefeated Austrian Gaier home advantage for their WBO super bantamweight title fight in 1994.  He need not have bothered.  Officially it took just 17 seconds - one punch straight out the corner - for Jiminez to wrap things up.

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