If Ortiz is a quitter so is Ray Robinson!
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I guess the referee who nearly passed out and had to be replaced was just acting as well.
Maxim deserves all the credit for being extremely tough and durable to last under the heat but this doesn't prove Robinson a quitter.
Louis had been eating flush right hands for 12 rounds and was clearly out of it when the fight was stopped.
You must have a very unique definition of quitting.
Yes Maxim showed what a quitter ISN'T. Salty Gay Robinson showed what a quitter was. You have this "SRR BEST EVER IN HISTORY OF MANKIND AND UNIVERSE AND GALAXY EVAR!!!111" imprinted in your brain so you cannot admit this.
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It's not an ego thing but have you ever boxed... honestly. Do you know what it's liked to get buzzed or to be bleeding. It's a whole new world baby let me tell you that!
This is just one of Ortiz's many great fights to come, he has talent and made a mistake. People do that ya know, I think it's called being human.
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Wrong!!! First of all you are in no position to set any of those expectations because I am almost 100% certain that you yourself could never live up to them. Secondly boxing is first and foremost entertainment/sport it's not a life and death struggle and it shouldn't be. So many other sports have rigid restrictions on what athletes can't do after they get hurt and you don't see their fans calling them quitters. You never heard anyone call steve young a quitter after he retired from football after suffering 10 concussions in his career. So why is it different for boxing? Could it be that everyone (media, broadcasters, fans, and boxers themselves) has this dillusional ideal that a boxer should risk their life in order to be called a warrior? I'm more realistic in that boxing has and always will be just a game and nothing more. It isn't that important that a man has to risk his life and health to satisfy the ***ed up ideals of a fan.
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The ref wasn't passing out. I think i'm gonna pass out from your old timers bias, it's quite disgusting do you know that mate?
Yes Maxim showed what a quitter ISN'T. Salty Gay Robinson showed what a quitter was. You have this "SRR BEST EVER IN HISTORY OF MANKIND AND UNIVERSE AND GALAXY EVAR!!!111" imprinted in your brain so you cannot admit this.
I have a better defenition of everything compared to you my friend.
Veteran referee Ruby Goldstein, who hadn't been hit by anybody, had to quit after the 10th round, victim of heat prostration. "My legs got numb and cold," he said. "My head started to swim."
I'm not against fighters quitting when they're losing. Pep did it, Langford did it, Liston did it, Tyson did it, these were some of the toughest men ever.
Robinson however was severely dehydrated and suffering from heat prostration due to the extreme conditions he was fighting under.
If he was simply putting on an act then so were the referee and many of the people in the crowd who had to be taken out of the arena. There was no reason for Robinson to quit a fight he was winning against a man who himself was tired and was not exactly a dangerous puncher.
It was Robinson's dream to win the light heavyweight title, you think he would throw all of that away because he was afraid of getting knocked out in the last two rounds against a non-puncher? You don't think being totally drained and exhausted had anything to do with it?
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He stopped fighting and waved his hand at the ref. He even admit that he quit after the fight.Comment
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The referee wasn't passing out? He had to be helped out of the ring and the arena.
Veteran referee Ruby Goldstein, who hadn't been hit by anybody, had to quit after the 10th round, victim of heat prostration. "My legs got numb and cold," he said. "My head started to swim."
I'm not against fighters quitting when they're losing. Pep did it, Langford did it, Liston did it, Tyson did it, these were some of the toughest men ever.
Robinson however was severely dehydrated and suffering from heat prostration due to the extreme conditions he was fighting under.
If he was simply putting on an act then so were the referee and many of the people in the crowd who had to be taken out of the arena. There was no reason for Robinson to quit a fight he was winning against a man who himself was tired and was not exactly a dangerous puncher.
It was Robinson's dream to win the light heavyweight title, you think he would throw all of that away because he was afraid of getting knocked out in the last two rounds against a non-puncher? You don't think being totally drained and exhausted had anything to do with it?
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