Question about boxrec.

Referee Technical Decision.

It basically means the ref stopped the fight due to circumstances outside of a knockout.

 

retired

or so i always thought

as in the fighter quit in his corner

 

Thats what I thought as well, I think thats what Tyson got for his fight with McBride, I will have to look it up to make sure I'm right.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referee_Technical_Decision

 

So it does mean RETIRED, but it stands for Referee Technical Decision - which happens to be three letters in Retired. Incredible.

 

I always thought it was retired too :huh

Its not really **** all to do with the ref if the fighter quits or his corner pulls him out, huh?

 

Yeah, I always figured it was the fighters retiring in the corner, like what O'Neil Bell did against Adamek, but I guess it isn't since boxrec says he lost by TKO..

 

I believe I saw TD one time; is that just technical decision then :huh ? I think it was for the Duddy/Bonsante fight (which I never saw so im not sure what happened)

 

Thank you, I guess I thought wrong.

 

See, that's just bizarre isn't it?

You could hardly put that under the category of "knock-out" of any kind, could you?

I know it's semantics, but these things get to me, retired would be far more apt :yep

 

Which is what I thoght it was for over a year

RTD; retired........they just fit perfect

 

I know

How the **** could you put O'Neil Bell's soft ass quitting in the same category as Taylor getting blasted half to death until he's saved by the god damn ref? That's a real TKO

Damn this just raised my stress levels right before bed :twisted: