Originally posted by BigStereotype
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If you take Benny's definition, which I can see where he's coming from, Arguello didn't actually quit.
But what he did do was adknowledge he lost the fight and wasn't going to win the fight, thus took the 10 count when he could have got up if he wanted. But what would be the point? For Pryor to just pound his skull in? Because that's what would have happened. But Arguello could have got up, he just knew he wasn't going to win. Plus the first fight was much closer than this fight, in this fight he definitely wasn't going to win on the cards aswell.
Arguello just couldn't hurt him, he hit him with his hardest shots and he just could not hurt Pryor and that really effected him in the fight.
At 140, Arguello was out of his depth, atleast against an ATG Jr Welter in Pryor. And that's why he wept after the fight, because he wanted to be that guy who won 4 titles in 4 divisions but he just couldn't do it.
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