Hill or Rountree: Which fighter has the best UFC knockout?

Two of the champion knockout artists successful the UFC's airy heavyweight part volition spell head-to-head connected Saturday arsenic erstwhile champion Jamahal Hill takes connected erstwhile rubric challenger Khalil Rountree Jr. successful the main lawsuit astatine UFC Fight Night successful Baku, Azerbaijan (3 p.m. ET connected ABC and ESPN+; prelims astatine noon ET connected ESPN/ESPN+).

Hill, who earned a UFC declaration with an awesome KO triumph connected "Dana White's Contender Series" successful June 2019, has a knack for turning fights into slugfests. He has 4 wins by knockout wrong the Octagon and 7 of his 10 UFC fights person ended by KO/TKO. Rountree has knocked retired 7 of his UFC opponents.

Here is simply a ranking of Hill and Rountree's champion knockouts to date, starting with the triumph that earned Rountree his changeable astatine the airy heavyweight rubric astatine UFC 307. And instrumentality astir for a mates of bonus finishes from co-main lawsuit fighters Rafael Fiziev and Ignacio Bahamondes.

1. Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Anthony Smith astatine UFC Fight Night connected Dec. 9, 2023

In this fight, Rountree was matched against a erstwhile rubric challenger and 1 of the bigger names successful the division. Rountree entered the bout against Smith riding a four-fight winning streak and wrong scope of a rubric changeable should helium win.

Rountree established dominance with aboriginal striking, starring to a highlight-reel third-round decorativeness implicit Smith. The memorable infinitesimal erstwhile Rountree floored Smith, past walked toward him successful dilatory motion, holding up his fist, cemented Rountree arsenic the adjacent challenger for the title.

2. Jamahal Hill vs. Thiago Santos astatine UFC Fight Night connected Aug. 6, 2022

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Jamahal Hill, Thiago Santos commercialized blows connected mode to Hill's TKO win

Jamahal Hill and Thiago Santos enactment connected a amusement successful beforehand of a tiny Vegas assemblage astatine the UFC APEX.

The biggest questions for Hill entering this No. 1 contender combat were whether his cardio could clasp up and would his knockout powerfulness past into the aboriginal rounds. We got the reply to some questions: Yes.

Hill fought a pugnacious and well-rounded striker successful Santos and continued to unit him passim the fight. Hill got his 4th TKO triumph implicit the erstwhile rubric challenger and went connected to go a champion.

3. Jamahal Hill vs. Johnny Walker astatine UFC Fight Night connected Feb. 19, 2022

This combat was Hill's accidental to interruption into the apical 5 successful the part and perchance get a No. 1 contender fight. Walker had mislaid 3 of his past 4 bouts entering this fight, but he's ever a unsafe hostile due to the fact that of his size and athleticism. However, Hill was the much unsafe combatant that night, landing a knockout punch that sent Walker disconnected his feet successful Round 1. This is 1 of the champion knockouts you'll spot wrong the Octagon.

4. Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Karl Roberson astatine UFC Fight Night connected March 12, 2022

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Rountree finishes Roberson with vicious body-shot KO

Khalil Rountree finishes Karl Roberson with what looks similar a brutal body-shot knockout.

Rountree fought similar a determined antheral against Roberson. Each of Rountree's kicks to the assemblage could beryllium heard passim the arena. Every onslaught had atrocious intentions, but thing compared to the finish. Rountree dropped Roberson to his knees past landed a shot footwear to the assemblage that would person crumbled anyone. With that win, Rountree enactment the part connected announcement that helium isn't idiosyncratic to beryllium taken lightly.

5. Khalil Rountree Jr. vs. Modestas Bukauskas astatine UFC Fight Night connected Sept. 4, 2021

Khalil Rountree ended his combat against Modestas Bukauskas with an oblique kick. pic.twitter.com/1iGRcHmeb3

After suffering consecutive losses to Ion Cutelaba and Marcin Prachnio, Rountree whitethorn person been successful a win-or-go-home lucifer against Bukauskas. Rountree was landing strikes, past threw a downward footwear successful the 2nd circular that shattered Bukauskas's genu and ended the combat immediately.

6. Jamahal Hill vs. Jimmy Crute astatine UFC Fight Night connected Dec. 4, 2021

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Jamahal Hill captures unbelievable knockout of Jimmy Crute

Jamahal Hill is going to request to update his item reel aft this unthinkable knockout of Jimmy Crute.

After getting his limb dislocated by Paul Craig successful June 2021, Hill returned 7 months aboriginal to instrumentality connected Crute. Hill recovered his groove aboriginal successful the combat and landed a beauteous KO precocious successful Round 1. What a mode to bounce backmost from the archetypal nonaccomplishment of his vocation and footwear disconnected his travel to the title.

This weekend's co-main lawsuit volition besides diagnostic 2 fighters with awesome finishes successful their UFC careers, arsenic Rafael Fiziev squares disconnected with Ignacio Bahamondes. Here is the 1 must-see knockout from each fighter.

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UFC KO of 2021?! Bahamondes flattens Roberts with unthinkable spinning kick

Ignacio Bahamondes sends Roosevelt Roberts to the mat with an epic spinning footwear you person to spot to believe.

Ignacio Bahamondes vs. Roosevelt Roberts astatine UFC Fight Night connected Aug. 21, 2021

After impressing connected "Dana White Contender's Series," Bahamondes mislaid his UFC debut by determination to John Makdessi. But successful his adjacent fight, 4 months later, Bahamondes landed 1 of the coolest finishes of the year, knocking retired Roberts with a spinning instrumentality kick. The triumph got Bahamondes backmost successful the eyes of MMA fans, and helium has been climbing the ranks since.

Rafael Fiziev vs. Brad Riddell astatine UFC Fight Night connected Dec. 4, 2021

This was the champion decorativeness of Fiziev's career. Coincidentally, helium besides landed a beauteous spinning instrumentality footwear to extremity Riddell's night. It was Fiziev's 2nd knockout triumph successful the promotion, and it earned him a big-name hostile successful Rafael dos Anjos straight after.