who's twisting words the lead begins the knockout game is one of many names given to assaults therefore knockout game assault as it is a type of assault we need only be concerned with common usage not some strict or arbitrary legal definition right i see there is some discussion on the extent to which the phenomenon actually exists and whether it is to some degree a media manufactured problem if that is the focus of the article then knockout game moral panic probably would not be acceptable unless there were a strong consensus that it indeed was that more likely the title would be something like controversy over media coverage of so called knockout games