Turkish-born architect John Gidding has certainly led an intriguing life. After moving to the United States from Europe, he majored in architecture at one Ivy League school (Yale University) and received his master's degree in the same field at another (Harvard University).
A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking.
He made 20 defences of his middleweight title, and is the first boxer ever to unify all four major sanctionning bodies belts: WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO. Bernard Hopkins a.k.a. Bhop beat Antonio Tarver who beat Roy Jones Jr who beat Bernard Hopkins. That's boxing.