A winner is declared during the bout if there is a submission ( fighter quits or fighter's corner throws in the towel ), knockout ( KO ), or referee stoppage ( technical knock out, or TKO ).

A technical knockout ( also referred to as a T. K. O.

A technical knockout (" Outclassed ") can also be declared if a fighter is ahead by 15 points in a bout.

Fighters who lose by knockout ( either by ten count or technical ) are automatically suspended 30 days, three months if it is the second knockout within three months, or one year if it is the third knockout within one year.

In AIBA competition, this does not apply if a fighter loses by a technical knockout outclassed, when a fighter is behind more than 20 points — 15 for junior levels — in any round except the final round.

Lewis beat Bruno by a technical knockout in the 7th round, in what was called the " Battle of Britain ".

Because a pinfall only requires a three-count from the referee, as opposed to a ten-count from a boxing referee to score a technical knockout, this rule gave birth to the saying " It only takes three seconds to beat your opponent.

While a boxer who loses on the mercy rule is scored RSCOS, and would be similar to a technical knockout in professional boxing, it is not scored a loss by knockout, and the 28-day suspension for losing on a knockout does not apply.

Of these, Thor was disqualified for throwing his hammer ( he was allowed to use it since he was powerless without it ), The Incredible Hulk was disqualified because the Champion refused to " soil his hands on a mindless animal ," Wonder Man was disqualified for tearing up the ring after being battered badly in the first round, Sasquatch was knocked out in the first round, and Colossus was defeated by technical knockout in the first round when he was unable to continue fighting.

On April 16, 1988, Chávez defeated number one ranked contender Rodolfo Aguilar ( 20-0-1 ) by sixth round technical knockout.

He retained it with an eleventh-round technical knockout of Fres Oquendo at Madison Square Garden.

He lost to Bernard Hopkins by technical knockout and retired for the first time.

In the fourth round Trinidad connected a solid punch that injured Carr, and in the eighth he scored three consecutive knockdowns before the referee stopped the fight by technical knockout.

With Vargas injured, Trinidad continued connecting combinations, until the referee stopped the fight by technical knockout.

Trinidad was matched with Joppy, whom he defeated by technical knockout in the fifth round of a contest that took place on May 12, 2001.

In the twelfth round Hopkins ' scored a knockdown, but before the contest could continue Trinidad's father entered the ring, which led to the referee stopping the fight by technical knockout.

Trinidad was subsequently scheduled to fight against Hacine Cherifi in a contest that he won by technical knockout in the fourth round.

In the eight round Trinidad scored several knockdowns, Mayorga continued after two knockdowns, but lost by technical knockout following a third knockdown.

The inaugural Diamond Belt was awarded on November 14, 2009 to Manny Pacquiao who won his seventh world title ( in seven different divisions ) via 12th round technical knockout over Miguel Ángel Cotto at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

In a tightly contested battle, Vargas ' left eye became grotesquely swollen and referee Joe Cortez decided to stop the fight in the 10th round to minimize further damage, granting a technical knockout ( TKO ) victory to Mosley.

Though Gómez was able to beat the count, referee Carlos Padilla stepped in and stopped the fight, giving Sánchez an eighth round technical knockout ( TKO ) win.

Future world champions Joe Frazier and George Foreman, despite being big punchers, were unable to knock Chuvalo down, but they were the only two fighters to ever stop him, scoring technical knockout ( TKO ) victories.

TKO is an abbreviation for technical knockout, when the referee, official ring physician, the fighter, or the fighter's cornermen decide that a fighter cannot safely continue the match.

A bout can end by knockout ( KO ), if a fighter is unable to get up within ten seconds after being knocked down ; by technical knockout ( TKO ), if a fighter is knocked down three times in one round ; or by decision, if the bout lasts three full rounds without a clear winner.

Belfort's next match saw him score a technical knockout ( TKO ) against the UFC 6 runner-up Tank Abbott in a non-tournament fight, knocking Abbott down and finishing him with a ground and pound attack.

His first two shots at the world middleweight title resulted in controversy: the first was an unpopular draw against then-champion Vito Antuofermo in 1979 ( allowing Antuofermo to retain the title ), and the second was a three-round technical knockout ( TKO ) of Alan Minter, in London, which led to a riot by Minter's fans.

Either boxer will lose if they cannot stand up before the count of ten after being knocked down ( resulting in a knockout or KO ) or if they are knocked down three times in the match ( resulting in a technical knockout or TKO ).

He mainly fought in Mexico for first three years, then moved the main battlefield to the United States since 1983, and won the World Boxing Council ( WBC ) junior welterweight title by beating Lonnie Smith via the fifth round on a technical knockout ( TKO ) in 1986.

* In a double-bout in Houston, WBC welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard made a technical knockout ( TKO ) of Ayub Kalule in the 9th round to win the WBA's junior middleweight boxing championship, and Thomas Hearns defended his title against challenger Pablo Baez.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

Even in such technical curricula as engineering, the senior is much more likely than the freshman to choose, as an ideal, liberal education over specific vocational preparation.

A student organization, Bottega, is open to any student interested in increasing his understanding and appreciation of the graphic and ceramic arts in their historical, technical, and productive contexts.

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

From a technical standpoint, the string playing is good, but the Pro Arte people fail to enter into the spirit of things here.

Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.

It is, as one engineer says, `` indeed a difficult thing for the engineer to accept that he can go as far on his technical merit as he could employing managerial skills.

there is no one point in a man's career at which he must select either the technical or the managerial path upward.

I am sure that the engineer who enters management is nearly always opening the door to greater possibilities than he would have as a technical specialist -- because of his wider accountability ''.

`` We have two approaches for the technical man: the position of staff engineer, which is rated as high in salary as department manager ; ;

These are only halfway measures, and the answer will come when some way is found to allow the technical man in industry to progress without limit in salary and prestige ''.

Publicity is given to the award of patents to our engineers and financial support is provided for individual membership in technical societies.

This function is staffed by engineers chosen for their technical competence and who have the title, member of the technical staff.

It is, I am reliably given to understand, the technical argot for those who engage in your particular branch of the boost ; ;

We should encourage the governments to develop their own technical assistance to communities, state and provincial governments, rural communities, and other smaller groups, making certain that no important segment of the economy is neglected.

Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.

In the practice of their art, there is an obvious technical resemblance.

Thomas is a regression from the technical originality and ingenuity of writers like Pierre Reverdy or Apollinaire.

The resident staff is large and consists of professional assistants, graduate students, abstractors, librarian, technical editor, machine operators, secretarial help, and others.

This is what, in a technical sense, to `` only permit '' an evil result means.

and, most pervasively, ( 3 ) their interpretation of who is a `` real pro '', of what it means to be a professional man in a technical, fragmented society.