Why does everyone give Acelino Freitas so much **** for quitting..

[monkeyboy]

I don't have much to add to the thread except to say that quitting in boxing is a divisive issue. Hey, you quit in tennis, give up and just lose, you suck. At least give it your best.
When you are in the ring and are getting seriously hurt/tired, just one punch could damage you for life. If you are seriously outmatched there is no shame in saying 'no'. Many condemned Duran for his 'no mas' but that fighter had heart. I've seen him take beatings. He proved himself over and over.
The problem lies in the fact that boxing like many sports is a focus for people's transferred feelings of glory and agression. Us fans build up a fighter who represents us to a level of unachievable expectancy. And because it's such a male/aggressive/testosterone fueled experience, many fans cannot forgive a failure when it appears in this form.
Hey, it's a sport like any other (or better in my opinion) however if a fighter sees he's in trouble and danger, he's the one who trained for months, has been in the game for years and has risked his life to be there many times before.
If you think they're quitters, you go sit in the ring with an obviously superior opponent with rounds to go and you get up and take the beating. You may not quit. Good for you but you'll understand why they did.

[moochi]

It's bs how people hate on fighters for quitting. Everyone is like R.I.P Levander Johnson, he was a true champion and all that ****. If he quit a couple of rounds earlier he would still be alive but those same people would be saying "**** Levander Johnson, he's a *****". I'm sure if Levander had the choice he would have quit like Freitas, Tszyu, etc, rather than end up how he did.

well said mate....thats exactly how it is.......it is so easy outside from outside the ring.......

[scap]

NO idea, I personally don't. He fought the wrong fight and got tired. That was the bottom line. Its easy for someone outside the ring to point fingers and laugh when a boxer quits in the ring or doesn't want to continue, but the reality is boxers are real people. They value their lives just like we do and they have familes to come back home to. Thats why I was mad when a certain person here kept making a thread about Tszyu quiting. Whats the big deal, if your done your done. Its obvious not many people have had fights before. In boxing perfection is expected if your a top fighter. Even 1 loss and your going to get bashed, now even if your undefeated your going to get bashed anyway. Give boxers a break, they have real lives too, and I'm sure they don't care about your opinions of them quiting.

Freitas did not fight the wrong fight, he fought the only fight he could fight in order to get a W.

Had his legs of held up he would have easily beaten Chico with the lead he had on the cards.

I think he should have quit, his legs were gone and Chico's left was warming up...we seem to all be in agreement here.

[Tha Greatest]

you like quitters? I don't

Well, I don't like people that talk a lot of **** but never even stepped in a squared circle.... (YOU)