How hard is it mentaly to be KO'd?

Never been KO'd, had me bells rung by shots, that's all.

I can understand it's hard when you've got to maintain an image in front of your friends,family and fans.

I think I'd be embarrassed to be KO'd in front of said F's.

 

**** is 1000 x times worse than getting ko'd man.

 

well, when you're preparing for a fight the fear of humiliation because of performing poorly is strong

when Hatton was KO'd it was very embarrassing for him

I think he is a sensitive person in general. Hatton did admit he cried for awhile after Floyd KO'd him. Floyd made him look clueless. The way manny KO'd him made him look like a stupid no skill fighter, no disrespect intended at all

 

A lot of people think of suicide for different reasons, some have a more valid reason than others but they all share that same feeling of hopelessness, proud boxers getting knocked out like a bum then feeling like that is understandable in my opinion.
Strong people bounce back though.

 

Getting stopped is traumatic and it definitely f@cks up your psyche. Not just your ego thats hurt, but you question yourself and your own abilities too. If youve never been stopped, its something that doesnt exist in your mind as a possible outcome, when it happens it changes everything because your now aware that it it something that your not exempt from. Some fighters can just accept it for what it was and move forward, but for others it consumes them and they are never the same.

 

It's different how, where, by who and when.

I got KO'd inside a minute (liverpunch), in front of a few hundred people but by a guy who was known for his extreme punchingpower.
It hurt like hell, but wasn't emberassed at all.

I got KO'd in a fight I was winning easily (kick to the side of the head), maybe 20 seconds left on the clock. By one of the smaller HW's in the tournament. After that I quit for over a year.

I got KO'd by my little brother (a freakin' Middleweight!) in a trainingbout, punch to the chin, barefisted, chin needed 6 stiches and I was out cold.
It's more as 10 years ago, but he still reminds me every chance he gets.


So, it depends largely on the situation, the opponent, time and place.

 

doesnt it depend on the fighter? david diaz got ko'd by pac and just recently too, and he said "back in the day fighters got knocked all the time and came back fighting the week after". he doesnt seem to be bothered by it. roy jones got knocked out by tarver and in the third fight did everything not to ever get hit again. some dont mind it, some seem to break apart because of it.

what i dont understand: why would you feel like your manhood was taken? suicidal thoughts etc. boxing is a sport, not a streetfight right? if someone destroys you in a streetfight where all goes, thats reason to feel less of a man, but a boxing match? even MMA isnt a real fight. if you get knocked out in MMA, does it make you less of a man? i dont know man.

 

Honestly I feel it depends on your overall mental confidence more than the lingering, pain, injury, etc (assuming you aren't critically wounded from it).

I've never been ko'd like Hatton, nor have I caught a beatdown in the ring in front of more than a 100 people, but I do know, everytime I got whooped, I was completely ok with it, and my confidence was still there.

But on the level Hatton was at when being brutally ko'd, I guess it's just a different world in reference to the mental state people get in. I honestly couldn't imagaine being a millionaire prize fighter in itslef, let alone what it would feel like afterward knowing I was annihilated in front of millions of people around the world, so it's hard to say.

 

the answer to your question is in your thread!!!!

 

i appreciate that, and obviously it does traumatize people..i guess id be more of a david diaz kinda guy

 

the answer to your question is in your thread!!!!