We live to fight another days. IMO its harder to say you had enough then to dance around a ring or to say down. Some times you need to take the risk and in this next fight he needs to take that risk.
I applaud Victor Ortiz for quitting.
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What horse ****. If you are afraid of getting hurt, afraid of getting koed, pick a different career.
Ortiz only has you respect because he decided to fight till the last second. He even said he imagined he would have two black eyes and cuts everywhere.
So stop rationalizing and justifying Ortiz being a coward against Maidana, when the only reason you respect him is because he acted the opposite against Berto.Comment
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What horse ****. If you are afraid of getting hurt, afraid of getting koed, pick a different career.
Ortiz only has you respect because he decided to fight till the last second. He even said he imagined he would have two black eyes and cuts everywhere.
So stop rationalizing and justifying Ortiz being a coward against Maidana, when the only reason you respect him is because he acted the opposite against Berto.
That's twice in two days you've made a raving idiot out of yourself, well done.
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Despite their many differences, one major difference between UFC/MMA and boxing is that in boxing it is unacceptable in almost all circumstances to quit. Fighters who do it are labelled and criticized. In UFC/MMA, quitting is not only OK, its part of the sport in terms of tapping out. "Oh, my arm is going to snap, let me tap" is the same as..."oh, my brain is bleeding, let me 'quit' the fight." Why is it so hard to imagine it being OK for a boxer to "tap out" so to speak, by voluntarily ending the fight? If Gerald McClellan had been less of "warrior", he'd probably be more of a whole man today.Last edited by fitefanSHO; 06-13-2011, 02:23 PM.Comment
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Its not what most people want to see as it kind of goes against the qualities most people associate boxing with, but if a fighter feels that he should do that when he is getting beaten, then who are we to argue? Only the fighter knows how he feels and I am pretty certain that all boxers know the consequences of doing that, it could well ruin their image and their reputation.Comment
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Let this remind people, and dont foget about the other fight against Lamont Peterson
Ortiz is being praised by his win against an overrated Berto, which he gets a credit in my book. But still untested IMHOComment
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