It is sport's most decisive and divisive moment - but what is it like to deliver a knockout punch, and to take one?
The 68-year-old made his professional boxing debut as a teenager, but is most famous for steering Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton through his glory years.
I have spent months examining that unique moment for a book, The Knockout, speaking to those on either end of sport’s most compelling, stark division of victor and vanquished.Deontay Wilder knocked down Bermane Stiverne three times in the first round of their November 2017 fight That is how Carl Froch describes his feelings after knocking out George Groves in front of 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium in 2014, with what proved to be the final punch he threw as a professional boxer.
It was exactly this feeling that Tony Bellew experienced when he knocked out Ilunga Makabu at Goodison Park to become WBC cruiserweight world champion."Cried with relief at the fact that everything I'd been saying all these years had come true. It was just the greatest relief of my life. "This sport is beautiful and brutal in equal measure because you want to inflict pain on your opponent because that's the only way you're gonna win," says Moore.
Hatton was knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in equally brutal fashion in a Las Vegas super-fight in May 2009."You wake up and then you realise you're in the ring and that you've been in a fight and you go back to the changing rooms after and then you talk to your coach and ask: 'So what was it? What was the punch that caught me?'
"I feel absolutely fine and I say: 'I don't really understand all of this. I mean it's really nice of people and everything but it's not like it was a really bad knockout.' And the room just went a bit quiet. "I was trying my hardest just to roll over but I'd face-planted and couldn't. But that was the feeling; my senses were all there, I just couldn't really move. I could remember it so clearly. And it didn't hurt one bit."
"He may look back and think that he was trying to get his legs up but I suspect that in that moment, if we'd had the benefit of looking at what was actually going on in his brain, even that wasn't even going on."Anthony Crolla, right, retired a little more than six months after his defeat by Lomachenko, following a final hometown fight in Manchester
"For a split second I thought I was in the toy shop again. I had the sense to grab Laporte, to try and allow my head to clear. It was a bit like when you've been walking along in the rain and get into your car: the windscreen steams up, you put on the fan to clear and it takes a bit of time before you can properly see out again."On each visit to the canvas he felt enveloped in thick, swirling fog, while trying to get his bearings.
It took him a good couple of minutes to get back to his feet. The after-effects lasted a lot longer. Hatton suffered terribly with depression in the wake of his knockout -"People would say: 'What's he got to be depressed about? Yeah he got beat by Pacquiao, but, look, he's got a nice house, he's got a nice car, he's got this, he's got that, what does he need to be worried about?' But they don't realise the state it leaves you in," says Hatton.
"The jolting force totally disrupts the nerve signals within the head, and the response is that the system momentarily almost shuts down."Anyone can be knocked out, it just depends on how difficult that process is going to be." In boxing we often refer to a fighter's 'chin', referencing their ability to take a punch and not get knocked out."We can describe fighters as having a strong chin but they have a lot of other factors counting for them," says Scott.
"However, in an elite athlete who has strengthened their neck and back and their upper torso, the response is different. The force is better dissipated, because of the reinforcement around the skull."Hatton didn't fight again for three and a half years after being knocked out by Pacquiao Alypius was persuaded to go and, after insisting on keeping his eyes closed, he relented and allowed himself to take in his surroundings."He drank it in, with a savage temper and he did not turn away but fixed his eyes on the bloody pastime, drinking in the madness, delighted with the wicked contest.
What is their attitude to the people who pay to see them stripped to the waist, gloved up and set upon each other?"You have disdain for the crowd," he says.
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