"Bruise Bro"-Top 5 NHL Fights-Joey Kocur

From Kelvington, SK, 6'0 220lbs, Joey Kocur was among the NHL's fiercest enforcers of the 80s and 90s, with feared punching power in both hands. Joey has said that he would picture punching the back of an opponents skull so that he punched through their face... Joey racked up over 2500 Career Penalty Minutes over 15 seasons with Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, and briefly the Vancouver Canucks.
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[@Kinger23]

Wild how the announcers assumed Kyte was kooked because he hit his head on the ice. Then you watch the slo-mo replay and see how he was out on his feet and then Kocur got him one more right before they hit the ice. Head never touched the ice, just pure punching power!

[@47tooter]

It was reminiscent of the Jonathan-Bouchard fight, Where Jonathan punched Perrie while he was down. What code ?

[@marcretro]

@@47tooter yup gross

[@stevehardman4686]

No, Kocur punched Kyte when his head was two inches above the ice, driving his head into the ice. That was more common back in the 80's and 90's than now, but is still disgusting to look at today. If anyone ever claims that Kocur was a clean or classy fighter, that was all the counterargument anyone would need to disprove them

[@MrFishBlood]

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Mr Kocur at a Detroit Lions game in 2012... The man's hands are indeed like hammers. Super cool guy too.

[@Belandriel]

Wow, I envy you :)

[@Remliv]

One of the toughest men to ever play the game. He was on a different level of scary.

[@AltEvil-tu1uf]

Growing up in New York, I loved Kocur because, first and foremost, he was a great teammate. He stood up for his guys, and they loved him for it. While he patrolled the ice, he also brought leadership to the Rangers and any team he was on.

[@benmitchner2172]

Kocur and the NHL tough guys were who I looked up to and watched this game for. This was back in the era when a lot of guys were Canadian farm boys from BLUE COLLAR BACKGROUNDS, and there were no curved sticks. Thanks for these vids they bring back when hockey was at its peak. Gaetz was a good scrapper too, but a very brief time in the NHL.

[@DonBlue-vy4ke]

No my curved sticks? Sorry, but you're wrong. Curved sticks started in the 1960's, led by Bobby and Dennis Hull.

[@benmitchner2172]

@@DonBlue-vy4ke Oh sorry and thanks for correcting me! Bobby Hull was one of the biggest legends so I'm surprised I didn't know. I still enjoy hockey a lot, but not the way the league is run now- that's all.

[@nedhead1972]

SWEET! you really do take our suggestions & that's awesome! Thank you!!!!

[@EnforcersHockey]

Absolutely. It makes my job easy! Lol. I started doing these because my morning routine at the office is watching old school hockey fights with my coffee (don't tell my boss, lol) and I wished there were my compilation vids, so I didn't have to go down rabbit holes. Lol

[@nedhead1972]

@EnforcersHockey we have a lot in common, because I do the same shit! I'm now collecting strictly enforcer jerseys, because I absolutely loved the roles they played & it balls it took to go out there every night knowing ur going to get into a fight in front of thousands of people. Crazy..

[@IntoTheWildFlyFishing]

Kocur is top 5 all-time. The hardest puncher in NHL history. Pretty good selection for top 5 fights. The Kocur vs Eagles fight was awesome too. Joey both stints with the Wings were a gift for Wings fans.

[@boburwell9921]

His use of the upper cut extraordinary

[@aaronbowe5855]

He was an animal, tough as they come.

[@nedhead1972]

Caufield had his face & ego bruised! Kocur was a straight beast!

[@jeffroegner1499]

You can insert the name of Every guy Jay fought in place of kocur. 😅😂

[@d17spud]

Joey put many a smile on Mickey Redmonds face. We will never forget the bionic fist

[@aberamagold7509]

There's a short video called "The Toughest Team There Ever Was." It's about the Clark, Kocur, Melrose families, etc., from Kelvington Saskatchewan playing on the same softball team.

[@EnforcersHockey]

It was a short on TSN a couple years ago. Very cool.

[@paulSmith-te8gq]

Definitely top 5 all time loved watching him fight

[@ИгорьДубовых]

1.Bob Probert. 2.Tony Twist. 3.-4.-5.Marty McSorley, Joey Kocur, Tie Domi. Further there are options

[@ladeseddy5994]

Wish there was footage from the AHL days in the late 80's early 90's of tilts with Joey and Chris Simon and Joey and Jamie Huscroft.

[@kineticstringwell844]

thats awesome i love kocur chris nilan was like kocur in early days

[@jerrythomas4457]

I like Nilan but he wasn’t even close to Kocur. Nilan hung on and threw an occasional punch.

[@iprey4surf]

KNUCKLES

[@sagpump12]

Word has it that one of Link Gaetz’s teeth is still lodged in Kocur’s fist.

[@ourkid2000]

It's crazy how much power Joey had when he was in tight. He could hit in the same way Donald Brasher could......you know that in tight kinda noogie thing Brash used to do except Joey could easily knock you out while doing it wheras with Brash it seemed more of an annoyance. I can't rememeber anyone else being able to do this in the NHL. He did it to both Caulfield and Manson in this clip. At the same time if you tried to go toe to toe with him, you were easily exposed to his insane right hand as well and he could just as esily knock you out like that too. I think this is why Joey did so much damage back in the day.

[@supremefantastic]

Who is so stupid that you wanna fight with Kocur? Then it is up to you that you fall unconscious to the ground.

[@MMoses87]

It sucks that kocur never fought Dave Brown. My top 5 kocur fights: Kocur vs Playfair(January '85) Kocur vs Mcsorley(1987) Kocur vs Wilkinson(March '93) Kocur vs Mcsorley(September '93) Kocur vs Probert(December '93)

[@jaysonb.6669]

Joey Kocur played in a beer league before joining back up with the redwings in 97. I feel sorry for all the weekend warriors that he was knocking out lol!

[@harvey6261]

Focus and Probert rocked.

[@iainmac7978]

A little surprised kocur-carkner didn't make the cut

[@Caracalla68]

Dave Richter is very underrated and he bloodied both Kocur and Probert.

[@ronaldstewart1094]

Exactly and he did so on more than one occasion and yet those bouts are rarely shown.

[@soundbreak7]

very early in kocurs career

[@Caracalla68]

@@soundbreak7 I'm not knocking Kocur at all and he is tough as they come as was Probert. Just bringing light to a very underrated tough guy many may have never heard of so others can look into it and judge for themselves. Saying he bloodied them piques more interest than just claiming he was tough.

[@stephenlavery7554]

It amazes me! To this day! How long it took for Refs and Linesmen to wear helmets????!!!????.

[@hammerheadms]

Bob Probert used to say Joey Kocur had fist like bowling balls.

[@mirandasalinas9412]

Joe Kocur confessed that the hardest puncher that hit him was Don Jackson , who played for the Edmonton Oilers.

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

Stan Jonathan kicked Jackson's ass twice in a game, first fight Jonathan hit him with so many rights he was begging for a left so Jonathan fought him a second time and pounded him with his left, hey, he asked for it! 😀

[@jays1752]

@@Gregory-sm9pf Jonathan-Kocur would have been something to behold. Very similar fighters

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

@jays1752 absolutely, be a brawl for the ages, two tough bastards

[@Remliv]

That was the same fight that Joey knocked Jackson into next week and the hospital. They both landed HUGE shots.

[@FranciscoMarrero-w9v]

Kocur was a beast

[@TheMilkcracker]

you make good videos

[@littletommy69]

Goodnight Jim Kyte!

[@CycoSven69]

I wish Kocur played in Detroit now.

[@jtmerwin2960]

The Brad Dalgarno bout was so sad. Def top 5. Ended Brad's career.

[@georgewardle4017]

He did come back and play but he wasn't the same player .

[@samtodd6301]

Caulfield was not a smart man. Hunter always thought he was a heavyweight badass... but he wasn't. Gaetz? Hell of a lesson for the big guy. Vandorp could take a punch... and often did. And Kite needed better fitting hearing aids. Oooffff...

[@DTSWVP]

Imagine Kocur v Dave Schultz

[@nedhead1972]

Ohhhhhh. Dave Semenko please!

[@MrSeaneboy]

Kyte didnt have any defence. BOOM!

[@nedhead1972]

Dave Manson please!

[@matturibe5256]

Damn, I loved kocur fight but Probert was the GEOAT. I remember semenko koed Kocur I was like wtf, and coxe

[@jamesferguson3304]

Missing link...I was there..jla

[@garymcconnell4379]

As an avid Penguins fan during Mario era I can testify Caufield was the worst enforcer in the league. Never won a fight and other enforcers T'd off on him every game

[@jaysonb.6669]

But he was always game to step in and that's usually all you need as an enforcer to make the other team take notice. Some of the toughest guys in the league would lose confidence after a bad beatdown or KO and their career's completely folded afterwards. Not Caufield.

[@BD_Gainz]

Bro! Darren Langdon Please!!!!

[@charlesbabcock1530]

One of Joe's bottom five fights is getting tko'd by Herb Raglan...

[@fran6octobre]

yes and he also had trouble with Bob McGill. Like Kocur though.

[@soundbreak7]

@@fran6octobre trouble ? eh , they fought a bunch of times both won some , McGill was tough though , he s the one Probert head butted , Joey didnt lose many

[@fran6octobre]

@@soundbreak7 I agree but Kocur was clearly tko'ed when he fought McGill that time. I know that he fought McGill around 4-5 times and generally their bout were quite even.

[@alexkaraban-ua]

Сила є розуму не треба

[@suprekoolio1227]

Chris Simon

[@Uduplr]

Probert and Tie Domi were much tougher players (enforcers).

[@williamcavanagh8982]

Kocur did not belong in the NHL.....he had little talent..

[@Remliv]

Nonsense.

[@joshuaheslip2854]

Caufield wanted to get his ass whooped twice🤣

[@chuckelwell]

Caufield is a dope