There is a substancial difference between TKO and KO, but it just seems to me that the UFC doesn't have it listed on it's website which is strange. As some have stated a Technical Knockout is when the referee feels that a fighter is unable to continue fighting anymore and stops the match before anymore damage is done to hurt the opponent. Sometime's a TKO can become a technicality because the fighter who lost by TKO felt that the match shouldn't have been stopped and that they could of continued fighting. A perfect example of this would be Ortiz vs Shamrock II. Under New Jersey Unified Rules of MMA (which is the standard rules of MMA in the US), a knockout is defined as a failure to rise from the canvas. So examples of a KO in the UFC would be Anderson Silva vs Chris Leban, Andrei Arlovski vs Paul Buentello, Chuck Liddell vs Vernon White, Rich Franklin vs Nate Quarry, Chuck Liddell vs Babalu and there are many others probably. I believe the main mixup or confusion with TKO and KO within MMA happens because even though you knocked someone to the canvas (Couture vs Liddell 3) and even though they are knocked out or unconscious from the first punch a fighter can follow up with many more punches to seal the deal even though it wasn't needed. Then the ref. would have to jump in and pull them off of the fighter before anymore damage is done which in my opinion makes it look like the match ended in a TKO.
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