How come a beautiful KO is counted as a TKO?

[ELPacman]

Sure, the ref stopped the bout before counting to 10 or didn't even count at all, but how do you say that's a TKO and not a KO? It was a beautiful KO as your ever gonna see. Sometimes I wonder this but I guess it's all got to go by the books? The ref has to reach a 10 count for it to be a KO?

[MANGLER]

Does it matter? It still goes on Pac's res as a KO win and Hatton's as a KO loss.

[THE REED]

True though... it wasn't a technical knockout... it was a knockout.

[street bully]

The referee could have counted to a hundred Hatton wasn't getting up.

[iBox]

Because it was a referee stoppage, a KO is if they don't get up after 10 count i think (if there is a count that is).

[nujabes77]

it was not a KO or TKO. it was KTFO

[Squabbles94806]

THis is exactly what i'm talking about. These days in modern boxing, they don't count fighters out anymore. Don't ask me why. I don't want to get upset, but it's ridiculous these days, that they don't count fighters out to 10. They're all considered KO's though even though it's a TKO. Nowadays, it's up to the judges to decide if it were a KO or a TKO. I think "Ninong" scored a TKO because of the previous knockdowns. Bayless saw enough. If Hatton only went down once, i think Bayless might have counted.

[Ido]

Because it was a referee stoppage, a KO is if they don't get up after 10 count i think (if there is a count that is).

Dead on point.

[-----------]

Thats what I keep telling some ****** boxrec fans on here.

Oh he's only got 3 real KO's on his record, the rest are TKO's, I've seen this mentioned on here time after time about different fighters.

100x more fights these days are TKO's than back 30-40-50 years, only because the refs back then didn't give a ****.

[tjadl6386]

Even if Bayless counted to 10 it was practically a moot point that Hatton wasn't getting up so I think the TKO is fine because it still counts as a KO in the record books. That KO in my opinion is a likely candidate for knockout of the year.