I honestly don't know a lot about specific fighting rules other than Kyokushin, but from what I do understand from them is that in full contact (Karate, Tae Kwon Do etc.) they are scored on a point system based on techniques demonstrated. Often full contact fights wear protective gear. In knockdown we score exactly as it sounds by knockdown and we do not wear protection. You can only get points from knocking the other person down, not by technique that could have done something, by technique that actually did something.
In full contact type fighting, you can still have the point style of fighting where smeone can jump in and out and touch the opponent with his fist once and get a score. In knockdown, you can punch as hard and as much as you like but it only scores on knockdown.
I myself often make the mistake of using the wrong term and Spirit is correct, we need to be careful in order that people understand the difference. Knockdown is much harder and more rigorous that full contact.
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