(1) A knockout blow

(2) You should be honored and proud to be with her because she's a knockout , man.

(3) Barcelona, on the other hand, will be a match for anyone in the knockout rounds.

(4) The last event was the traditional tug-of-war, in which a round robin knockout decided the winner.

(5) He conceded to the Evening Press that in a way he was glad not to have witnessed the cruel knockout blow, which has left the popular boxer battling for his life.

(6) They qualify from their group but fall to Argentina in the first round of knockout matches after a penalty shoot-out.

(7) It didn't look a knockout blow but the American-Italian slumped to the canvas; referee Coyle revealed later that he had considered stopping the contest there and then.

(8) It's definitely not an attractive look for a supposedly irresistible knockout , even though she has the necessary figure.

(9) At the Games there will be eight teams in each competition battling it out in pools, followed by the knockout rounds.

(10) Your career seems to be so much more reinvigorated since the knockout win over Klitschko.

(11) The crowning achievement of his career was probably his knockout of bantamweight champion, Lupe Pintor.

(12) Much has been written about the failure of the Allied armies to deal the Germans a knockout blow in 1944.

(13) The top four teams in each group advance to the quarter-finals where the tournament turns into a straight knockout .

(14) McGrath scented a quick end to the contest - and like a prize boxer went straight for the knockout blow.

(15) Victory in a one-sided match will have sharpened up the Dutch for the knockout contests ahead.

(16) He must have been a knockout when he was young

(17) A knockout blow

(18) In poker anyone can beat anyone on the day, but the already large element of luck involved is magnified in knockout tournaments where one piece of bad fortune can send the world's best player home with nothing.

(19) Although Sanchez was not known to be a knockout puncher, he could hit.

(20) If you are in form domestically, you'll stand a better chance of making it through; this is all the more apparent now that the second group stage has been disbanded and we have an extra knockout round.

(21) The men will be split into four pools of four with the top two from each group going through to the quarter-finals, from where it will be a straight knockout tournament.

(22) Not until this tournament gets to the knockout quarter-final stages will the real competition get under way.

(23) While Jellicoe was criticised at the time and failed to achieve the knockout blow that was within his grasp, he nonetheless succeeded in neutralising the German naval threat for the remainder of the war.

(24) We were like two boxers punching each other hard without being able to land a knockout blow

(25) Horrible and devastating as the Pearl Harbor raid was, it was by no means a knockout blow to the Pacific Fleet.

(26) United and Bayern lead their group with eight points apiece and a victor this evening will book a place in the last-eight knockout .

(27) From the semi-final, the competition is a straight knockout , with the winners progressing to the final and the losers competing for the bronze.

(28) Yesterday, with a hard-won victory over Mexico, he took them as group winners to the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time in 40 years.

(29) At half time the crowd was buzzing but soon after the break the champ landed the knockout blow.

(30) Sudden-death Champions League football is a real knockout for the fans, and long may it continue.