My thoughts exactly!!!!!

Vix

Knocked TF Out!

How on earth does she knock out that beefy wolf by a direct shot to the nose?
Make it fall and roll around squealing in pain but... KO?

If theoreticly, she used enough force, it could have punched the bone from his nose up to his brain and he could also be dead and not just KO. but this would probably work better on a human kind of bone anatomy in the face, I'm not sure if it could happen on a Wolf or what he is too.

Work better on human bone anatomy? Humans don't have nose bones. The best you can do is break the cartilage. Knocking him out this way would have to rely basically on hitting those sensitive nerves in the nose hard enough that he passes out due to sheer pain overload.

Yes, but you actually can kill someone with that move IRL. That's one of the reasons you never see MMA fighters or boxers punch their opponents in the nose with an upward oblique angle. Uppercuts always impact the jaw or mouth, not the nose. It's one of the rules in professional boxing, and I think it's probably a rule in MMA, too. Can get a fighter immediately disqualified.

The "bits of bone in the brain only" thing only works with us because our noses are made of a softer, more flexible material called cartilage
I'd say this is closer to hitting your head hard in this as their snouts are hard bone, not soft cartilage that we have. So he is probably concussed, dazed and in pain. And maybe has a broken snout judging by how much his nose scrunched up and shortened on that impact.

Dog noses, hit dead on, are amazingly tough. Still makes 'em yelp.

I've seen a GSD run full on into a glass door nose first and didn't even get a nosebleed. Pawed at his face for a bit and then was right as rain.
But push in and push up as illustrated here... that HURTS to high heaven, from the reactions my wolves would show when I flat-palmed them when they got mouthy (it was a palm push, not strike, but they'd back off and lick their nose after).
As drawn, though, it seems likely that the nasal bone may have broken at the sinus cavity... that's a good stout chunk of bone and I can't imagine they'd WANT to be conscious after that broke.

Now for coward man

Glad to see she can use her head in a sticky situation. ;)P

I'm sure they'll all be hurting like hell once they wake up.

That's awesome.

You know... one thing that has always puzzled me is that anthro characters based on predators have all these sharp teeth... and they never bite anyone! I thought she had bitten the fellow on the nose before taking a better look. Very well done action sequence!

I think this says it best:

(from https://www.furaffinity.net/view/15079735/
- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/15113426 is the start of the fight/attack.)

"Heh," I grunted, switching to the second pad. "The weapons everybody thinks of first: The ones under their nose. Not counting claws. Also the ones that almost everybody misunderstands. How close do you have to get, and where, to deliver an effective bite? That'll genuinely degrade an opponent's fighting cap or determination? And how long will your muzzle be occupied doing it? Sure, put your whole head right where your opponent can thump it, or blind you, or break your nose, or rip off your ears, or get at your throat, or you get the point."

The second pad was only getting a little red; first one got most of it. I kept scrubbing. "With these three, any chomping would've been stupid and dangerous. Bite's an opportunity move. Only if you get the chance to make it a good one. Best course is to let your opponent think his big bad fangs scare you, then extract them with your footpaw or something.

The fighting has been really well done.

There's still more of them and she's hurt, how much more does she have to give?

That's how I was trained. Smash your attacker in the nose with the heel of your hand hard enough to break the nasal bones and the bony part of the nasal septum loose and force them into the brain. All you armchair quarterback naysayers who have no physiological or self-defense background, keep it to yourselves.

Sounds deadly. I'll keep that in mind.

That last panel. I guess I didn't realize how skinny Myre is. Is she starving, or is that intentional? Given her lifestyle (what we've seen of it), I'm guessing she's malnourished.

boop the snoot

And that, folks, is part of why having a snoot is more a weakness than a strength: Overly aggressive head-to-head boops.