Twitter Reacts to Jermell Charlo's Knockout in First Round Against Erickson Lubin

Late Saturday evening, fighter Jermell Charlo delivered on what’s sure to be one of the year’s highlight performances after defeating challenger Erickson Lubin for the WBC’s 154-pound championship in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.

It was in the first round that the 27-year old Charlo took Lubin, 22, down with a single right hand just after the 2:41 marker. It was in a sequence of left jabs dealt by Charlo that Lubin ducked and suffered a brutal clip on the jaw from a right uppercut. "I'm fine. I'm perfect. I feel good,” the previously undefeated Lubin noted after the match. "He caught me with a blind shot. He landed it. I felt like when I got up I could have kept fighting. It happens.”

“I got caught with a nice shot on the chin and couldn't recover in time,” he would later add. “I didn't see the punch coming, so I have no excuses. I'm young and have plenty of fight left in me. This is just a minor setback. I'll be back sooner than later and hungrier than ever."

Charlo now sits with a record of 30-0, 15 KOS, while Lubin’s own gets adjusted to that of 18-1, 13 KOs, walking away with a bounty of $225,000. "We're going to unify,” Charlo said. “The other champions want to fight me and I'll take any of them. Give me another title. I want [Jarrett] Hurd. Hurd just won. Give me Hurd."

His reference to Jarrett Hurd came just after the junior middleweight retained his own world title in a 10th-round knockout against Austin Trout. While Charlo and Lubin’s matchup seemed pretty cut and dry, there was still a bit of conflict after the bell when a member of Lubin’s team threw a chair at fighter Jermall Charlo, Jermell’s twin brother.

Naturally, an ending of this magnitude had the internet talking and with plenty of hilarity and poignant takes in abundance.

Check out Twitters’ top reactions to Charlo impeccable KO below.

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