Former rivals Tony Bellew and David Haye came together for a recent Sky Sports special, and had a difference of opinion when it came to subject of Anthony Joshua's TKO defeat at the hands of Andy Ruiz.
Back on June 1, Joshua suffered the first defeat of his pro career when he was dropped four times and stopped in the seventh round of action.
But some fans, and fighters, felt Joshua had no intention of continuing the fight - after he got dropped for the fourth time, turned his back on the referee and walked back to a corner. The referee took a good look at him and waved off the fight because Joshua gave off the appearance of a fighter who had enough.
Haye, a former two division world champion, was confused when Joshua turned away from the referee at the end of the fight.
"That part that I couldn't get my head around is - in the seventh round when he got put down, it wasn't like a big shot. He seemed like he just got cuffed and just wanted a little bit of a break," Haye told Sky Sports.
"He goes down, gathers himself, gets up at eight and then turns his back and walks away from the referee at eight. That's one thing I don't understand. Maybe he realised that it's the 'AJ Show' and the referee is going to give me the benefit of the doubt? I would never get up in a fight at eight and turn my back on the ref, because I would expect the referee to go 'the fight is over!'"
Bellew has a different take on the matter. He believes Joshua would never have quit.
"Does he thinks he's getting the benefit of the doubt, because of who he is?," Bellew said.
"A kid coming from the situation and the place he's come from, they don't quit. I don't care what anybody says, there's no way in a million years. At no point did he say 'I don't want no more.' At no point did he shake his head and say 'no'."
