To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.
At the time I retired I was kind of known for it, as one of the guys whose career ended technically as a result of a big hit.
I hate when people discuss scorecards in title fights and say you have to decisively beat the champ if you want to win the belt. Not true. You just have to win three of the five rounds, really.
I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.
To take the belt from the champ you need to finish him.
Of course I would want the knockout, but with me, I just look for, you know, a spectacular performance. It's like, walk them down, or go for the knockout. You know, hopefully I get the knockout.
You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.
With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I'm like a technician and learn to break it all down - from head to toe.
People want to see knockouts.
