ADONIS Stevenson's 76-second knockout of champion Chad Dawson in Montreal for the WBC light-heavyweight crown put the 30-something Canadian in an elite bracket of fighters to have won a world title fight in quick time.
One left hand rendered Dawson thunderstruck and Stevenson in line for a unification showdown with 'The Executioner', 48-yearold rival world champion Bernard Hopkins.
The 35-year-old, who has fought only 22 times, mostly at super-middle, has also England's Tony Bellew in his sights as Bellew is the WBC's number one-rated contender.
Bellew reacted to dazed Dawson's demolition: "He (Stevenson) has shocked boxing. It is great what he has done.
"But, it's not going to last long. Stevenson is wild and he gives you opportunities so I don't think he's going to be a long-standing champion."
The Montreal mayhem was still 59 seconds slower than the officially timed quickest world title fight KO in history, produced by Puerto Rico's Daniel Jimenez, in Wierner Nuestadt against then 20-0 Austrian hometown favourite Harald Geier in 1994 for the WBO super-bantamweight title.
Geier, who later lost by TKO5 to Denmark's Johnny Bredahl in his only other title bout (EBU bantam) before retiring with a 33-3-2 slate, was sparked out in just 17 seconds.
Two other quick world title wins of note were Gerald McClellan's first WBC middleweight defence, in Puerto Rico, won in 20 seconds against Jay Bell (1993) and Hopkins, in a second IBF middleweight defence in 1996 at Phoenix, knocking out Steve Frank in 24 seconds.