K.O.W. - The Marksman Gets Shot

The big fight this week is of course Barrera/Marquez, but I'm afraid to bring you a Knockout of the Week featuring either of those fighters would be to whet your appetite for something that simply isn't going to happen. Marquez has never been a true knockout artist, and Barrera is a long ways away from wielding one-punch power. Don't get me wrong - I expect an action-packed fight between these two, but I'd be very surprised by a stoppage either way.

So for our K.O.W. I thought I'd get Madsear worked up a little and take you back to January of 2006 and the undercard of the Judah/Baldomir fight, when the Supernova, O'Neil Bell, became the first unified cruiserweight titlist since Evander Holyfield by knocking out Jean-Marc Mormeck of France, a.k.a. The Marksman. This was an electrifying fight from start to finish, as Bell came back from an early walk down queer street to finish off a clearly exhausted Mormeck (check out Mormeck's epxression on the canvas after the knockout - there is a man who truly does not know where he is). The rematch is this Saturday in France - Madsear tells us he may be in attendance, so hopefully we'll have an eyewitness account for you.