In the hours after a mind-bending knockout by Joaquin Buckley at UFC on ESPN+ 37, a question: How does one judge the greatest knockout in UFC history? Do you mainly value technique? If so, perhaps you’ve considered the thing of beauty that was Anderson Silva’s front-kick knockout of Vitor Belfort at UFC 126 the greatest ever in the octagon. Edson Barboza putting himself on the map with a flawless spinning wheel kick against Terry Etim in 2012 belongs in this category, too. How much do the circumstances during the fight itself matter? Yair Rodriguez landing an upward elbow to drop a charging Chan Sung Jung with one second left in the fifth round of their UFC 25th anniversary event headliner made an already great knockout a lot more memorable than it would have been had it occurred midway through some random fight on a random night.
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