They may have looked like pro bouts, they may have been advertised like pro bouts, but that doesn’t mean you actually saw professional boxing on Saturday night’s Triller Fight Club pay-per-view.
Multiple outlets (including Bloody Elbow) have learned that Vitor Belfort’s first-round TKO of Evander Holyfield and Anderson Silva’s first-round KO of Tito Ortiz were both exhibitions, and will not be counted towards anyone’s professional records. That means that Ortiz still hasn’t made his professional boxing debut and Holyfield didn’t have his first pro boxing match since 2011. They still both were stopped in a round and it’s not like you can’t have exhibitions end in a knockout.