Talk:Defender of the Faith/@comment-79.227.46.232-20170207034649/@comment-208.70.40.23-20180520184548

Considering it begins as a fistfight unless you escalate--knocking them unconscious is implied. You can fistfight in all three games and nobody ever dies from it.

It's definitely implied they are knocked unconscious, they just didn't want to bother with further cutscenes.