What percentage of boxing matches end in knockout?

Upper level knockouts are really, really rare. Most "knockout artists" are just can crushers. Highly skilled boxers are very hard to knock out due to agility and toughness, and when they do get knocked out, they're usually on the downward slope at the end of their careers.
 
Yep, yep, I don't think knockouts mean a lot unless they involve class fighters.

Very very tough to knock out a well-conditioned top fighter.

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I looked up the boxing matches that happened in the 25th on boxrec. 5 out of 17 fights ended in KO or TKO. But that's just one day out of the long history of professional pugilism. On the 23rd in Thailand, half of the six fights that happened ended in KOs.
 
Yep, yep, I don't think knockouts mean a lot unless they involve class fighters.

Very very tough to knock out a well-conditioned top fighter.

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Please. Just about every champion/contender level boxer is like 42-9 career wise, with 6 of those losses as decision losses and 3 TKO/KO losses at the very tail end after they overstayed their welcome. A prime condition top 10 boxer is very, very hard to knockout.
 
Please. Just about every champion/contender level boxer is like 42-9 career wise, with 6 of those losses as decision losses and 3 TKO/KO losses at the very tail end after they overstayed their welcome. A prime condition top 10 boxer is very, very hard to knockout.
i don't understand what bradley meant when he said, "Very very tough to knock out a well-conditioned top fighter." perhaps he meant that a prime condition top 10 boxer is very, very hard to knockout.
 
Upper level knockouts are really, really rare. Most "knockout artists" are just can crushers. Highly skilled boxers are very hard to knock out due to agility and toughness, and when they do get knocked out, they're usually on the downward slope at the end of their careers.

I was agreeing with ya, dude.

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