An Australian boxer (Lionel Rose) has passed away and although I don’t follow the sport I was looking him up on Wiki.
It talked of Ruben Olivares and one comment about a fight was:
“It must be noted that he was winning this fight before he gassed and was eventually stopped”
Gassed is not a term I know of and looking it up online doesn’t provide any leads.
Any idea- did he just run out of steam?
Can a passing Mod please correct the spelling in the title? I am having a horrid day.
Ran out of steam sounds about right.
That’s exactly what I first thought of as analagous. Beat as in tired, out of gas, worn out, nothing left in the tank.
I think you guys are right looking back at the article. I just wonder why the author didn’t say “tired”. Maybe it is a boxing term.
“Gassed” is a term used in a wide variety of sports for being exhausted and unable to continue at your previous pace. Boxers and fighters get gassed. Football players get gassed. A fast-fast break basketball team might get gassed. A big, heavy palooka who comes out and swings haymakers early might very well get gassed in the first round. An offensive line might be gassed by the end of the half from trying to hold back an aggressive pass rush. A defensive line might be gassed by the 4th quarter because of all the blitzes they’ve been trying to run.
Etc. It’s a general-use sports term.
Thanks Ogre. From what I am reading it is an “American” term. (I am not American). We get exposed to most of the terms but I hadn’t come across this.
I think the way it’s used in the OP is a less common way of seeing “gassed” used. More likely, you might read “the boxer was gassed by the the 5th round,” in which “gassed” would be an adjective instead of an intransitive verb, as it appears in the quotation above.
Yeah, I’ve seen it a lot but never in quite in that way - an athlete can “get gassed” or “be gassed” but to say “he gassed” reads a little weird. “He gassed out” maybe.
Yeah, sorry. I knew you were in Australia, but for some reason, it didn’t register.
It’s very much an American term, and you hear it interminably from announcers during games. 
Also, I hope your day gets better! Don’t get gassed out! Take a break.
I’ve noticed this usage a lot recently. I blame MMA announcers, who seem to comment that “he gassed” a lot.