A knockout or KO is a win wherein the opponent is unable to get up before the referee counts to ten while a technical knockout or TKO is a win wherein the fight is stopped because the opponent is unable to go on. Half the forum do not understand the difference between these two rulings: KO This content is protected TKO This content is protected As listed in the boxing record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chisora for the boxer used in the above example:
The thing is referees today are trained, when they see a guy unconscious on the floor, to stop the count so the ringside physician can come in and check the fighter out. So brutal KOs today are routinely "officially TKOs" simply because the referee could see the fighter would never get up no matter how long he counted and just stopped counting. You rarely see a referee count all the way up to 10 unless a guy is actually trying to get up. If he's unconscious, they tend to waive it off long before 10 is ever reached. So we often get KOs when a guy tries to get up but fails to beat the count ... and TKOs when they are unconscious. It's almost backwards. In that past, all those instances would've been KOs. So, if people want to call them KOs, because the guy was unconscious, we know what they mean.
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