21.   But legal experts say it was not a knockout punch.

22.   But none of that deterred David Remnick from pursuing Ali once more for his own knockout punch of a book.

23.   But on it, Hornaday delivered several knockout punches that Sprague insists relegated him to a runner-up finish and put Hornaday in victory lane.

24.   But they failed to land the knockout punch, leaving six runners on base in the first three innings.

25.   But the Sooners still had to sweat in the fourth quarter because their offense could not apply a knockout punch.

26.   But, says Paul George, a Miami-Dade Community College history professor, the storm was the knockout punch for a city already on rubbery knees.

27.   By the late rounds, only a knockout punch from Toney could have changed the result.

28.   Cal Lutheran had the knockout punch it needed.

29.   Dole is a heavyweight champion who jabs, bobs and weaves before landing knockout punches that his opponents never saw coming.

30.   Democrats may not have to land any knockout punches to stagger the GOP.