I understand that the WBC and WBA have different regulations. That was not my point. I was being sarcastic. Your subpar reading level must have led you to believe otherwise.Terry D wrote:The point that you constantly fail to miss is that there is a marked difference between TKO/KO/DQ/RSF/UD/MD/SD and so on. You even failed to grasp that the WBC is not the WBA in terms of rules and orientation. All I am going on is the terminology of the sport.
Banal, wow, that one must have slipped by me, I assume it must be an apt description of your thought, seeing as it is a substitute for the other word.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, even Granmama must have two cuckoos in his nest because he got it right four times, and he is clearly insane.
It is incredibly basic, as you are sub-basic I'll leave you to whoop "KO! F*ck yeah!" every time a fight ends before the allotted rounds limit. Enjoy the evening's pig racing.
I know the difference between a KO and a TKO. I believe I have demonstrated that. I am simply saying that TKO's are recorded as knockouts, and that TKO's are referred to as knockouts, and that I am not the one who created this system and this terminology and neither am I the only one who employs them. In baseball an inside the park homerun is not the same as one hit in the stands, either, but they're both recorded as "homerun"; we know the difference, and do not need a baseball equivalent of Terry D to explain it to us.
You're a snob, and your posts are unimpressive. You seem to think that you are giving me some sort of deeply thought out explanation; when this is basic stuff that we would have all figured out in the first month that we started watching the sport.
I don't watch pig races either, my dear, nor do I "whoop" everytime I see a knockout. Neither did Don Dunphy or Howard Cosell; as far as I know, anyway. But I do know how boxing works, and I suggest you learn it too. Basically, you're saying that because Robinson and Louis and Ali called TKO's "knockouts" that they were idiots and hicks and knew nothing about boxing and didn't understand the difference between knocking someone out for ten seconds and stopping them in another matter; as if they had never done it before. You're saying that every fan who says that Foreman "knocked out" Frazier is not a deep thinker. When in reality what the situation is is that you're a boring person and a mediocre thinker with a very over inflated ego who thinks that he has enlightened us on a point that every fan knows and understands. Meanwhile you're the one who has confused fight results and who suggested that DQ has the same relation to KO as TKO does, which it does not.
Look, if you want the boxing world to change this stuff, start a petition or some other tedious process. That way Ali will have 11 knockouts instead of 37, and we'll all be wiser and more enlightened as a result. But don't single me out for using a terminology that has been in use for over a century, and which all fans and fighters have used.
