KO Percentages Question

[Kev]

Well it does happen more often than 5% of the time I believe.

It must be at least 25% of the time in Ricky Hatton fights

Let's think, Hatton has been sparked twice, Manny sparked David Diaz too. Roy Jones was knocked unconscious twice, did Margarito beat the count against Mosely? Can't remember although I know Mayorga didn't.

Juan Diaz failed to get up against Marquez, I think Casamayor was out for the count against Marquez too? And I'm sure Katsidis didn't get up against Casa himself.

It happens more often than you'd realise I guess, but actually considering how many world titles their are now, virtually every fight is a title fight, so the figure may not be that high in comparison.

10% maybe actual KO's, rising to 40% when you account for TKO's, stoppages on cuts, and the towel being thrown in. I'd say another 5% for freak stoppages, disqualifications, headbutts etc, so prob 55% of fights go the distance, 45 end early, with 10% being clean ko's.

Of course I just made these stats up on the spot but if Jazmerkin, AdamGb or Missy disagree I fully intend to defend them as accurate and will pull up all manner of google resources to prove my invented stats are legit

is this not what the question is though, those fights you listed will have all gone down as tkos would they not because there was no actual count

there was no count in margarito - mosley, the ref stepped in to stop before margarito even got knocked down the second time

the most brutal ko's ironically normally are not recorded as ko's because the ref will stop it without a count

Is that true?

I just checked Hatton and although Manny got the KO, Floyds win is listed as a TKO which kind of seems like bollocks to me.

Actually maybe he did get to his feet in that. I remember him being check hooked into the corner post, getting up then being knocked down again, at which point the ref stopped it.

I would DEFINITELY call that a ko, although it doesn't suprise me at all that they would be incompetent enough to rule it a tko.

[amat]

I think the referee stepped in to stop it as Hatton was falling down against the ropes again...

[hitmanhatton]

boxrec has it as a ko your right, but yet they also have marqeuz - diaz as a tko when the ref stopped both without a count

if were going by their true definitions boths fights were TKO's as there was no ten count

come to think of it i cant even remember the last time a title fight ended in a true KO