knockdown• Roper, who is as sharp with a put-down as he is with a knockdown, has run out of worthyopponents.• Kids getting out of Intro thought they were hot, anxious to get the first Kilroy, or punchingknockdown.• The second knockdown came early in round two.• The younger fighter seemed to have recovered from the knockdown.• But there is little doubt that the knockdown had a crucialbearing on the fight.