Absolutely wrong to say AJ quit.

I am a Wilder fan. I wanted it to be Wilder stopping AJ. However, I never "disliked" AJ. I just prefer Wilder over AJ and Fury. AJ did not quit. I don't know why everyone is so quick to go there. Couldn't it be possible that when a fighter takes a beating, is hurt, especially on the ear, after a while your reaction times slow? Not just your reaction times to punches or throwing punches, but how you respond to the ref? I think he knew what the ref may have been asking and he was saying "yes". But when a fighter is hurt badly or over a sustained amount of time, I they may know they want to continue or know they don't want to lose. But their brain and body are just not in sync. I think AJ knew the ref was checking if he wanted to continue, but I think he was so dazed and delayed that he couldn't comprehend that in the moment, he wasn't physically responding to the ref to come forward. I feel his instincts were to hold himself up on the ropes and wait for the ref to wave the fight back on. I've seen many fighters hurt, signal yes to the ref, the ref wave both fighters back on, and the hurt fighter lean back to the corner to cover up. I simply think AJ wanted to continue, but didn't have full control over his body to clearly walk forward and lift his gloves when the ref needed after those headshots. Either way, he wasn't winning the fight. This is more about people saying he straight up quit. He had that Seth Mitchell look after the 4th knockdown. His physical reactions to the ref got worse and worse with each knockdown to the point where he couldn't comprehend what to do. If anything, he may have been waiting for the "mouthpiece break" because I think the ref was holding his mouthpiece after picking it up if I am not mistaken.