cotto did not quit

[DUnknown1]

it's one thing to quit on your stool. its another to take everything you can possibly deal with and submit. cotto wasn't getting "destroyed" by any means. he was still landing the more meaningful punches and more combinations. tony is a machine. i blame cottos game plan for him taking so much damage, but not as much as i blame the loaded gloves. all in all dudes on here are too comfortable calling fighters and not just cotto a quitter, coward or saying so and so fears this other guy.

i guess we all weren't watching the same fight that night.

It's impressive how you justify two different scenarios in which both men quit. How do you know that the man that quit in his stool gave it all he had and just couldn't take it anymore. It might as well be the circumstance of the fight itself, maybe Cotto didn't reach that point until the middle of the round, and that why he took a knee and decided to quit. Don't be a hypocrite you can't justify quitting in different scenarios when both guys ultimately did the same thing.

[**********]

i'm not saying anyone who has quit on there stool is less manly then someone who quit on there knee in the middle of a round at all. but point is the people who are critical of cotto for being a supposed quitter harp on this as if he is the first and only person to ever have done it. for them to have a ****ing nickname just shows there bias towards there favorite fighter who is either accused of ducking cotto (the mayweather mafia) or a the fighter who actually made him take the knee. (the margarito crowd who apparently have no common sense at all).

[MARKBNLV]

you're a fool if you think cotto's chin would have stood up to 11 rounds of plastered filled gloves. Cotto being able to handle over 250 power punches from gloves filled with plaster???? ok ok i caught my breath, go on with your excuses.

Just saw your sig go broncos

[Weebler I]

it's not an excuse. i'm not defending the loss. i'm talking about classless *******s talking tough behind keyboards because its the easiest thing to do on earth. what percentage of this forum owns a pair of boxing gloves? probably less than 2%. how many have been in any kind of real fight? probably less than 10%. a bunch of nerds calling dudes who could rip there spinal cords out of there nostrils "quitters" is ridiculous to me.

that's the worst thing about this website, it's not properly moderated in this respect.

[Mr. Fantastic]

Cotto quit, but he gave me my money's worth. He at least had the balls to fight top Welterweights. I still find it funny on how people are still butthurt over that loss. Cotto has had a big weakness to uppercuts and Tony throws tons of them.

[strugler]

Cotto quitting are just speculations(which are good) but speculations still.................Where in the rulebook say's taking a knee is considered quitting.?..............................

[sycomantz]

he quit. he took a knee

[Leakbeak]

I do respect him, and don't think he is lacking in heart. But it is indeed a fact that he DID quit. Not saying ti is bad one way or another, but he surrendered as did Tszyu and Klitchko. East Europeans tend to value life more than in the west and frown upon quitters less than we do. The Russian press hailed Tszyu for quitting againt Hatton after giving it his all, and in Ukraine they think nothing bad of Klitchko protecting his career and his knee by giving up one fight so he could come back another day. i doubt plaster had anything to do with it, but Cotto did right saving himself from further beats

[Leakbeak]

it's not an excuse. i'm not defending the loss. i'm talking about classless *******s talking tough behind keyboards because its the easiest thing to do on earth. what percentage of this forum owns a pair of boxing gloves? probably less than 2%. how many have been in any kind of real fight? probably less than 10%. a bunch of nerds calling dudes who could rip there spinal cords out of there nostrils "quitters" is ridiculous to me.

I bet them percentages are higher than 2 and 10% if you did a real poll where everyone had to vote. But the fights they took part in would never be as hard as 12 gruelling rounds. When people fight more than 2 rounds with a pro for 3 minutes at a time, then they will realise how hard it is. Much more harder than normal sparring or in the am's where you go toe to toe for 2 minutes with your headguard on. Very few people appreciate how hard pro boxing is otherwise they would know why he had to quit

[strugler]

he quit. he took a knee

taking a knee aint quitting.............................