TKO, misleading term?

RTD = retired. Which means he gave up on his stool. RTD = Retired Techical Decision, meaning that it went to the cards. I thought that was more for injuries than anything else. That fight shouldnt have been decided by the cards.

The whole point is that the fighter is en route a KO from continous punishment, hence the refree stops the fight to protect the health of the guy on the receiving end. Its Technicaly a knock out because if the fight was allowed to continue the fighter WOULD go down. The whole point of the ref is to protect the fighters, as silly as that sounds, because laws do not allow blatant fighting, the whole reason combat sports are allowed is because there is a ref who supposedly is preventing fighters from getting "hurt"

I was a bit confused by the Cotto v Quintiana fight being officially billed as a RTD.

I'm pretty sure Tom understands the concept of a TKO. But was just pointing a few things out, I think they've been answered. yeah, I understood what TKO means, but I just hope boxing should use a more accurate term for verdicts. win by stoppage and win by submission should be used also, though they are never going to use it because MMA had used it already, but I like to hear them use it. :D

Well there are already terms in use that generalise it all.. stopage is one.. and inside the distance is another..

Knocked him out of the fight..

hhmmmm.... tricky term... but i think it's just right.... a knockout (KO) is scored when an opponent is counted out and unable to continue... when a fight is stopped due to cuts, referee stoppage, 3 knockdown rule, etc... then technically he was knocked out (TKO), because of the fact that the fighter was unable to continue.... hope this helps.... :D

I don't like the idea that just by stepping into the ring......you disqualify your corner from the fight. Simply because it becomes some serious bullshit. Let's think back to the Floyd v.s. Judah fight. Floyd was whipping Judah's ass....and after the low blow and the whole riot incident.....everyone was claiming that Judah should have won by D.Q. The same rule applied to Barrera v.s. Jones, and you see a guy almost dead from getting beat up who's corner jumps in to try and rescue him. That automatically disqualified Barrera.....simply because the ref did a horrible job that round. Never pay again for live sex! | Hot girls doing naughty stuff for free! | Chat for free!

I've got this, get back on the bench. ahahaha........

But if the referee stops the fight, the other fighter didn't submit. Submit means to give in, and when the ref jumps in between it usually means that the fighter wasn't willing to give in. IE. Sit down and take the count. yeah, but how about if the loser is unwilling to fight? its still TKO.

Its misleading if ur just skimming someones career... i guess...

thats why they have that big TECHNICAL in front of it