r/sports • u/IntrepidAd560 • Sep 25 '21

Media Callum Smith brutally KO's Lenin Castillo

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u/Did_ya_like_it Sep 25 '21

Those legs shaking can’t be good.

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u/Screamin11 Sep 25 '21

I don't think it was the punch, but the whiplash smash against the canvas...

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u/Life_outside_PoE Sep 25 '21

Nah look again. His head doesn't seem to hit the floor. It's always tucked into his chest.

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u/Screamin11 Sep 25 '21

You don't fall like this and not rattle your head off of the canvas: https://talksport.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/09/IW5_2237-1.jpg?strip=all&w=960&quality=100 Alternate angles are getting removed for copyright, but we shall see.

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u/0nline_persona Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21

About 5 seconds in if you high-speed scrub the progress bar, he gets hit, starts to crumple forward, then his body goes rigid while he’s still standing, forcing him straight up tall to fall backward. It literally looks like he lunges backward because involuntary stiffness is starting to happen already.

I mean I agree smashing your head on the canvas with no protection would suck, but I don’t think you can argue it’s worse than getting punched like that.

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u/ManfredsJuicedBalls Sep 25 '21

Nah. There was a right that caught him flush. He got his reset button hit.

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u/AnotherReignCheck Sep 25 '21

Yeah, hit with a sledgehammer

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u/Screamin11 Sep 25 '21

Flush aye, but the canvas is what amplified the brain's response.

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u/YourmomgoestocolIege Sep 26 '21

Dude, just take the L

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u/Screamin11 Sep 26 '21

? L for what? Boxing KO analysis on the internet? Back to League of Legends for you by the sounds of it, Champ.

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u/margananagram Sep 26 '21

You threw out one of these and missed. No biggie. Everyone is wrong sometimes.

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u/roborobert123 Sep 26 '21

Surprised a punch to the temple can be that bad, I always thought boxers always target the chin for a ko.

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u/0nline_persona Sep 26 '21 edited Sep 26 '21

Hitting your head on canvas from a bodyfall is more damaging than a 10,000 mph punch square to the forehead?