eli5: How does getting hit in the jaw result in a knockout?

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I like to watch videos of people fighting from time to time and kept seeing videos of people getting put to sleep via jaw shot. How does this work? How does the brain immediately go unconscious like that? What causes the brain to shut off so quickly?

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Imagine a see-saw. Their brain is on one end, and the punch to the jaw is like a kid jumping on the raised side.

Brain gets launched. Brain doesn’t like getting launched.

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