long count
Extended referee countdown
Long count refers to a boxing referee's count that extends beyond the standard one-second intervals, giving a knocked-down fighter extra time to recover.
The term is most associated with the 1927 Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight title fight, where a delayed count allowed Gene Tunney to rise and win.
Separately, the Long Count is the Maya calendar system that tracks time in cycles spanning thousands of years, famous for its 2012 endpoint that some misinterpreted as predicting apocalypse.
- MayaAncient Mesoamerican people
- Mayan calendarMesoamerican astronomical dating system
- calendarDate-tracking system
- MesoamericaPre-Columbian Central American region
- tunLarge brewing cask
2012 · end of the world · apocalypse · glyphs · astronomy · cycles · ancient · civilization · prophecy · epoch · zero · tallying · baseball · pitch · strike · ball · innings · boxing ring
- calendarscalendar, calendar day, calendar year, calendar month, lunar calendar
- Mayan ruinsChichen Itza, Tulum, pyramids, temples, stelae