Should we stop predicting knockouts at the elite level when two PRIME boxers fight each other?

Time after time, boxing fans / fanatics make this same mistake. We see it far too often! Outrageous claims and predictions of knockouts. But after the fight, they then come to their senses about how knockouts rarely happen at the elite level. And then another bout takes place between two other elite boxers, and those same fans / fanatics make the same mistake of predicting a knockout win for one boxer. When they already admitted first time around from their mistake that knockouts rarely happen at the elite level.

But why don't boxing fans do this BEFORE a bout takes place between two elite boxers? Especially if they've been proven wrong once already. Which is when they admit knockouts rarely happen a the elite level. But when there is a second bout between two elite boxers, they make the same mistake again by predicting a knockout.

Of course, you'll see knockouts / stoppages at the elite level if one, or both of the elite boxers are past their prime. For example:

1) Past - prime Wladimir Klitschko getting stopped by Anthony Joshua.

2) Past - prime Alexander Povetkin getting stopped by Anthony Joshua.

3) Past - prime Luis Ortiz getting stopped by Deontay Wilder.

4) Past - prime Muhammad Ali getting stopped by Larry Holmes.


BUT, when we see two fighters fighting each other during their primes that are also elite, we ALMOST always don't see knockouts / stoppages. For example:

1) Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev (first fight).

2) Roy Jones Jr vs James Toney

3) Oleksandr Usyk vs Murat Gassiev & Mairis Breidis

4) Alexander Povetkin vs Wladimir Klitschko

5) Lennox Lewis vs Ray Mercer


So why does anybody else think any different in a potential fight between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder if they fight during their primes (assuming anybody considers Wilder to be an 'elite')?

Why does anybody else think any different between a potential bout between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk, if they fight during their primes?

Or in a bout bout between Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Dmitry Bivol?


The main question is, why do boxing fans continue making this same mistake and should we all stop predicting knockouts at the elite level when both boxers are in their primes (barring a very few exceptions)?

Many Golovkin fans / fanatics were claiming how Golovkin would stop Canelo inside the distance and some even went as far as to claim Golovkin would brutally KO Canelo cleanly. Yet, after Golovkin failed to even drop Canelo in 24 rounds, now those same fans / fanatics come to the realization and admit that knockouts don't often happen at the elite level and now all of a sudden, Canelo Alvarez has a great chin. Why didn't they say those things before the first fight? Why didn't they give credit to Canelo's durability before the first fight by questioning Golovkin's chances of winning by stoppage, instead of doing it now?