Almost feel bad for Walters because I can't knock a fighter for making decisions about his body and health.
However, he should've known how fans would react and had the veteran savvy to cushion the blow of quitting on his stool. Go out for one more round swinging; if you get caught a few times, call it quits or have your corner thrown in the towel so you can pretend to protest it. Claim hand injuries or shoulder injuries of some sort...know one would know the wiser.
That's all he had to do. One round balls to the wall where he tries to turn the fight around. Few would blame him for quitting after that. That's what's shameful here. He never truly put himself out there to turn the fight around. He meekly accepted losing every round and then quit.
I think Walters and/or his corner made a smart decision. Apparently I'm in a minority though. Funny, you guys come on here and get all sympathetic when a fighter is seriously injured or dies in the ring... yet you blast a fighter for trying to not end up that way. So what is it anyway? And plz don't say he wasn't in any trouble. He was getting clocked repeatedly, especially in that last round.
He was getting outclassed and embarrassed, not hurt. He didn't even get dropped or really wobbled. Nothing compared to Ali/Holmes. With your rationale any time a fighter feels he can't win she should just quit. Who's going to watch boxing if the becomes the norm? If he was getting bludgeoned then I could see the argument. But he was fine, just getting outclassed.
He probably made the right decision, everyone is all upset when a fighter dies in the ring or gets brain bleed, then they s*** on any boxer that knows when it's time to call it quits. He made the right choice unless you are in the ring you can't make that call.
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