World-Ranked Filipino boxer Miel Fajardo needed only one punch in just seven seconds to score the fastest knockout in professional boxing history.
The 23-year-old pride of Agusan del Sur wasted no time in unleashing a left hook that caught the jaw of his Thai opponent Sarawut Jiamthong to win the Asian Boxing Federation flyweight title at the SpacePlus Night Club in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jiamthong may have not been counted out as the referee decided to wave off the count of three after seeing the Thai was not responding and was unfit to continue.
The win was listed as Fajardo’s ninth KO in 10 wins, against a loss on boxrec.com, the world’s most authoritative data in professional boxing.
However, boxrec.com put the clock at 10 seconds, and not 7 seconds as what actually transpired and showed on TV.
“We will send boxrec.com a formal letter and ask them to rectify its record. We see no problem because it was shown on live TV that when the referee signaled the end of the bout, the clock showed 2:53,” said the fight’s co-promoter Brico Santig.
Prior to Fajardo’s feat, the fastest knockout recorded in pro boxing was 10 seconds by Phil Williams, who stopped Brandon Burke in June 2007 inside the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Once the boxrec set its record straight, Fajardo’s feat officially becomes the fastest knockout ever recorded in pro boxing history.
In the Guinness World Records, however, it only has the record of amateur boxing—the Golden Gloves tournament, where Mike Collins knocked out Pat Bronson in just four seconds on July 25, 2020.