Watch Mike Alvarado Deliver One Of The Most Violent Boxing Knockouts Of The Year

We can’t stop watching this Alvarado KO. pic.twitter.com/FImUqVDZhi

— Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) August 20, 2017

Mike Alvarado is one of those veterans you can depend on for an entertaining fight no matter who he’s matched up against. He has 25 knockouts in his 38 wins, and despite being 37 years old, the guy can still bring it. His welterweight matchup against Brazil’s Sidney Siqueira (who has 17 knockouts of his own) was a wild affair with a finish befitting of the battle. In short, Alvarado’s knockout of Siqueira was one of the most violent of the year. In fact, this very well could be the knockout of the year across combat sports.

Let’s look at the 4th round finish again:

Not only does this belong on highlight reels across the country, it’s kind of overshadowed Terence Crawford destroying Julius Indongo to retain his WBC and WBO super lightweight belts and unify them with Indongo’s IBF and WBA titles. All in all, it was a fun night of boxing that not many knew was happening amidst the black hole of media coverage called: Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor.

But hey, we got one of the best knockouts of the year out of it, and we’ll take it. Especially after seeing Crawford do this: