Teofimo Lopez, a 2016 Olympian, scored a quick and devastating knockout of Mason Menard in his lightweight bout on the undercard of the Lomachenko-Pedraza fight.
Referee Charlie Fitch quickly abandoned his count when it was clear Menard wouldn't get up and the bout was over after just 44 seconds.
Lopez (11-0, 9 KOs) appeared to hurt Menard (34-4) with his very first punch and it didn't take him long from there to end it with a roundhouse right near the left ear that momentarily froze Menard with his left arm limp before he fell straight forward onto his face.
Lopez then did a backflip and shortly after Oklahoma's Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy across town, slipped into his Sooners No. 1 jersey and did a Heisman pose for the crowd.
Lopez guaranteed he would become a world champion in 2019.
"We're in the stage of my career where we can change boxing and bring it back," he said.
"You all haven't seen anything like me in a long time."
Many were quick to call the savage display a "knockout of the year" contender, and talked up the possibility of him earning a shot at lightweight world champion, Vasyl Lomachenko.
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