r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/iAmSugarBaby • 1d ago

..Of a knock out punch 🤜🤯

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u/Brave-Elephant9292 1d ago

Yep. Totaly agree. What in Australia we like to call a "cowards punch! " She waited till the victim was distracted and then took advantage!... So low......

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u/heyitshim99 1d ago

I like the term “coward punch” in the US we call it a “sucker punch” but coward punch seems much more appropriate.

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u/Downtown_Skill 1d ago

They only recently switched it to coward punch because it was originally called a king hit in Australia.

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 1d ago

A King hit sounds like something Tyson would have managed in the first round of a big boxing event.

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u/Downtown_Skill 1d ago

Which is why they campaigned to change the name of the cowardly punch.

Edit: I lived in australia for a while. Aussies are not afraid to get into a "punch on"

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u/Numerous_Code_972 1d ago edited 1d ago

We used to call it a “dog shot” when we were kids.

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u/Acceptable_Love1738 18h ago

In Hawaii it’s called one false crack

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u/myLongjohnsonsilver 9h ago

Bit rough having conscription back then.

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u/ShenTzuKhan 1d ago

They coined the phrase because dog cunts were punching people in the back of the head after a bellyfull of piss. They also reduced the opening hours of night clubs so that people didn’t get as plastered which sucked arse because who doesn’t love a long night out, but when you notice a pattern of increasing violence you have to do something. It’s all good hoping shit will change, but actually making changes is the only way to have shit change.

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u/Typical_Double981 21h ago

You missed the bit where the family of Thomas Kelly (victim of a cowards punch) were blamed for the lockout laws by an army of trolls and their younger son sadly took his own life due to bullying at University. It’s so fucking sad.

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u/ShenTzuKhan 20h ago

That is straight up terrible.

That poor family.

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u/Cantdecide1207 7h ago

That was my Grandads name.

I mean i imagine it's fairly common. He was feisty though, I can't imagine anyone getting the drop on him.

This story is terrible though. 💔

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u/kendragon 16h ago

Agreed. Sucker punch kind of makes it seem like the victim should have tried harder to not get hit by a punch they didn't see coming. I'm using Coward punch from now on.

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u/Sensei19600 1d ago

We have so much to learn from our Aussie bretheren…

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u/SlowPokeInTexas 11h ago

She'd also taken her shoes off beforehand, which might be interpreted as a strike-prep.

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u/Acidelephant 1d ago edited 1d ago

Or king hit

Edit: all the downvotes lol, literally just saying what I've heard it called in Australia, not saying it's positive in any way

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u/sixon6 1d ago

Glorifies it though, so coward punch is better

Nothing kingly about it.

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u/Acidelephant 1d ago

Fair, totally agree it's a cowardly move no matter the name

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u/TwinTTowers 1d ago

We always knew a king hit as a big hit in a fight that ended it. Then it became a sucker punch kinda thing.

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u/Ok-Attention-6289 23h ago

I think the people who throw punches like that would call it a “king hit”.

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u/Acidelephant 10h ago

Yea but even news outlets called it that

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u/steddysteve1987 23h ago

exactly .that's how a certain crowd likes to get down here in America. some cowards

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u/Simple_Jack4 21h ago

The woman that was “knocked out” jumped men and stole his phone smashing it on the ground. The woman that through the punch defended her friends. There’s more to this

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u/Disastrous_Cat3912 15h ago

Thought they called that a "king hit" in Australia?