Have to disagree with you on this one.
When interviewed for the Mayweather fight, Marquez said he is willing to die in the ring that Saturday night. Now most would dismiss that as just "macho" talk as you put it. I know he meant every word.
Boxing is the most brutal sport in the world, in that there's not doubt. We see it with the amount of deaths every single year, no other sport can claim that.
If you as a fighter, don't have the mentality that you are invincible, that you can't be beat, you shouldn't be a fighter and are not a fighter. Every single fighter that has stepped into the ring believe he can win every fight, if he didn't he wouldn't be in there.
So the question is, when should a fighter quit? If I say never, you will then call me macho and say it's all bull****. I say a fighter should never quit because that's not his job or should even be in his mind to quit.
So what separates boxing from dog fighting or **** fighting then..right? The referee, the athletic commission, the judges and the corner.
Any fighter who has ever been seriously hurt in a boxing match, has been so because of chance (his body just can't take it) or because of negligence.
It's the job of the corner, referee to protect the fighter. Santiago should have stopped the fight, the ref should have stopped the fight. There should be no quit in Cotto.
Call it macho or whatever you want but until you have been in the ring or seen what these men have gone through, you can't understand it. It's the same way a race car driver or football player don't worry about death or serious injury because once you do, you aren't strong enough to do what you do anymore.
When interviewed for the Mayweather fight, Marquez said he is willing to die in the ring that Saturday night. Now most would dismiss that as just "macho" talk as you put it. I know he meant every word.
Boxing is the most brutal sport in the world, in that there's not doubt. We see it with the amount of deaths every single year, no other sport can claim that.
If you as a fighter, don't have the mentality that you are invincible, that you can't be beat, you shouldn't be a fighter and are not a fighter. Every single fighter that has stepped into the ring believe he can win every fight, if he didn't he wouldn't be in there.
So the question is, when should a fighter quit? If I say never, you will then call me macho and say it's all bull****. I say a fighter should never quit because that's not his job or should even be in his mind to quit.
So what separates boxing from dog fighting or **** fighting then..right? The referee, the athletic commission, the judges and the corner.
Any fighter who has ever been seriously hurt in a boxing match, has been so because of chance (his body just can't take it) or because of negligence.
It's the job of the corner, referee to protect the fighter. Santiago should have stopped the fight, the ref should have stopped the fight. There should be no quit in Cotto.
Call it macho or whatever you want but until you have been in the ring or seen what these men have gone through, you can't understand it. It's the same way a race car driver or football player don't worry about death or serious injury because once you do, you aren't strong enough to do what you do anymore.
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