BoxRec editors must be related to Kid Gallahad to call an out cold knockout a TKO. It's listed as TKO loss in his record. And description below the fight looks even worse: ..."Martinez cut over the right eye in the 3rd round; Galahad down late in the 5th round and tko’d by a right to the chin."... He wasn't tko'd by a right to the chin, he was KFTOed cold
TKO or KO....we all seen it. Not sure what difference it makes in the grand scheme of things what box rec have it down as
I'm pretty sure Whytes nap courtesy of Povetkin was a TKO for the same reason. No count, no knockout.
As others have said, if the referee doesn't give a count, it's TKO. Weird rule, but it is what it is.
Ref technically stopped the fight and didn't complete a ten count so it can be recorded as a TKO. That's the thing about TKO's and KO's on boxers records unless you actually watch the stoppage you really don't know if it's a KO or TKO. I'd say Galahad stoppage was a KO he wasn't getting up from that but officially it's a TKO.
Ref didn't get to ten... he didn't count him out. A bit daft seeing as he could have counted for a minute and Galahad would still not have been in a fit state to continue. Thankfully, we will forever have YouTube to confirm he was KTFO...
It's a distinction so stupid that even bookies and betting sites consider them the same thing for gambling purposes; the very definition of 'distinction without a real difference.'
Yes, I've always thought that a bit stupid - It's KO - Knocked Out, not CO - Counted Out. Even taken literally, TKO deals in semantics - "Technical Knock Out" > "to all intents and purposes, although the fighter wasn't counted out, it's technically equivalent to a knock-out" But there is a big difference between the ref saying "Hey this guy is so starched I don't even need to count" vs deciding that "hey this dude has taken too much punishment, I'm gonna save him from himself" - or worst case, putting the tin-hat on, "here's my opportunity to give the 'home' fighter the win" (aka the oft-termed "British Stoppage") What I haven't really thought about is when fighters are announced, and you get the "and 15 wins coming by way of Knock Out" - are TKOs generally counted in this figure, or only KOs? That would seem a bit harsh - i've always just assumed that TKOs are included in that, but makes me wonder now!