whats worst?

I think the thing with roy jones was more mental than physical. Hes losing his skills because of age not because of the two knockouts IMO.

Long beating is worse. A KO can be like boom and you're on the floor wondering what's happened. In most cases this is correct, but please compare Klitschko-Williams and Peter-Williams. There always are exceptions. :) But usually, in most cases, you are correct.

Long beating is worse. A KO can be like boom and you're on the floor wondering what's happened.

Both can have extreme effects on you and your life. Mike Tyson - Marvis Frazier, 1st round, Frazier looked dead. Samuel Peter - Jeremy Williams, second round, Williams almost died. Vitali Klitschko - Danny Williams, 8 round beating, Williams undefeated since then. It depends on who you are and how extreme the damage is that occured.

definitely, you can recover from that, a prolonged beating to the body and the head would have more long term effects. Some guys don't recover from one punch knock outs either. Roy Jones looks that way. That youngster Allen Green knocked out Corrdington. I'll be surprised if he isn't gun shy when he returns. But yeah, I agree. A prolong beating does ruin fighters faster.

for my size, I would rather be knocked out cold on the first round by Corrales than get beaten to a pulp by say Pacman for 3 rounds.... lol

absolutely,. i'd rather be kayoed by one punch than take 500 of them. poor taylor was never the same. rip Floyd Patterson by the way So you'll rather get laid out like Jermey Williams did against Samuel Peter? Is that what your saying?

A Chavez-Taylor type beating is many times worse than a first round KO. A prolonged beating will have many long term effects on a fighter down the road.

a long beating.

It seems that most fighter who ended up with mental probs get it from a long beating than a KO from the first few rounds.