How to Use technical knockout in a Sentence

technical knockout

noun
  • He won by technical knockout.
  • He has 10 knockouts and 6 technical knockouts.
  • Paul won the pay-per-view main event matchup via technical knockout.
    — Matt Moret, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • He's won all of his fights via knockout or technical knockout.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2022
  • Chalermpol lost by technical knockout, but his problems didn’t end there.
    — Maxim Babenko, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Paul ended up winning the match via technical knockout in the fifth round.
    — Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Cotto was one of the best boxers in the world, and won the fight by technical knockout in the ninth round.
    — Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Pacquiao won with a technical knockout and has never looked back.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Brinkman won by technical knockout.
    — Zoe Collins Rath, Austin American Statesman, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Each of those losses came via technical knockout or knockout.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • Andy Ruiz stepped in for Miller and scored a seventh-round win by technical knockout. Joshua regained his titles in a rematch six months later, but said the Ruiz loss had taught him the value of a reset and a full training camp.
    — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Spinks challenged him that June, losing on a third-round technical knockout.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The referee jumped in to stop the action and declare a win by technical knockout.
    — Stan Parish, WSJ, 7 July 2017
  • Fury beat Wilder in their last bout this past February by technical knockout.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Seven of the 10 bouts were decided by a knockout or technical knockout, and only three of the fights went more than three rounds.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 4 June 2018
  • About halfway through the fifth round, Nunes won again by technical knockout, after raining blows down on her beleaguered foe.
    — Des Bieler, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Stipe’s prediction came true, of course, with a technical knockout of Cormier, the man who took the belt from him 13 months ago.
    — cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Stone won via technical knockout when the referee stopped the match because Martin suffered a broken right hand.
    — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • If there were such a thing as a technical knockout in tennis, the umpire would have given Federer one on Sunday.
    — Matthew Futterman, WSJ, 17 July 2017
  • David scored a second-round technical knockout of Ricardo Campillo on the undercard that night.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The previous year, in the first fight between the legendary boxers, Holyfield won by technical knockout in the 11th round.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The onetime retiree defeated the mixed martial arts star by technical knockout, earning a $100-million purse in the process.
    — Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Instead, Crawford fought David Avanesyan last December and won by technical knockout.
    — Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
  • Saturday's bout was the first time the two heavyweights met since Ruiz won a technical knockout during the seventh round in New York in June.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But this will be his first title fight since losing to Aldo by technical knockout in 2013 after injuring his shoulder.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2022
  • At other shops, however, the odds shorten to -135 by betting on Golovkin to win by KO or technical knockout.
    — Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Björnsson swapped opponents on the original date to fight armwrestling champ Devon Larratt instead, besting the sub in the first round via technical knockout.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Haynes was clobbering Ray Gun throughout the fight, causing the referee to step in and stop the match in the second round, giving Haynes the win via technical knockout.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • As Em predicted, Crawford — who entered the fight with an undefeated 39-0 record — won the bout in the ninth round via technical knockout.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 July 2023
  • Ali bested Cooper, a European heavyweight champion, for a second time by technical knockout; the fight was stopped in the sixth round due to a cut over Cooper's eye.
    — The Courier-Journal, 27 July 2022

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