Definition of "technical knockout" []

• A victory in boxing, with immediate termination of the match, awarded by the referee when it appears that one fighter is too badly injured to continue. (noun)

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• "WE were standing next to Chance and Kid Bascomb, over by the blue corner, when the ring announcer quieted the crowd and told us what we already knew, that the referee had stopped the fight after two minutes and thirty-eight seconds of the eighth round, that the winner by a technical knockout was Eldon “the Bulldog” Rasheed."