Comments Thread For: Nicholas Walters' Surrender Elicits Same Old Song and Dance

[Mike D]

Thanks for clearing that up. At any rate I don't think he'd be able to pounce very quickly.

no it's a very methodical, drawn out pounce

[CaneloMaidana]

There is a middle ground. Many have died doing my job. Do I run from the building when someone is crushed to death? This article pretends people aren't soldiers, cops, electricians, firefighters fisherman and industrial mechanics who often die.

[soul_survivor]

I havent read a Fitz article in a year and this is why. The guy labels everyone else as haters but literally, every one of his articles is about him complaining about something or other. what gives? lol

I hope he goes to the doctor one day and the doctor says "sorry, cant see you today. Im to stressed. bye"

smh fitzy, get your damn act together.

[rudy]

This is what i know happend, yes he knew was gonna lose so decided to stay in for a few rounds and retire rather than get knocked out as he can always have a rematch or fight for another title. This is why i say fighters must stay hungry, Walters is not and should retire has HBO will not touch with a barge pole just like Ortiz who quit against Maidana. This was high profile fight and fighters need to know you can jump or loose your balls in a fight.

He brought shame on his Jamacia and Panama but looks like in Panama must be acceptable you know the Duran saga

[Rumblerr]

Boxing: Warrior Sport

All boxers are supposed to know and accept the dangers of the sport the choose to make their living from. That is why we admire, praise, and also criticize them. All warriors must be ready to die doing what they love to do. We hold warriors to a different standard and place them on the highest pedestal because we know that they possess something that most of us don't. However, when we discover a fraud, who claims to be a warrior, we pounce on them like flies on shyt. We do not like being fooled by imposters. All warriors must be willing to die in the ring and go out with their honor intact. A true warrior would have it no other way. That's the code of the warrior.... Walters?? Not a warrior but a straight out fraud!!!

[bojangles1987]

This was not a fighter getting beaten down. This was not a guy taking punishment that changed his life. This was not something 99.9% of the sport would quit over. This was something thousands of fighters have recovered from to make a fight competitive and even win. This was as bad a quit job as a boxer can commit.

Why are those defending Walters acting as if there was zero chance at all that he could do something? He never tried. He never put himself out there, not ONCE, to try and change the direction of the fight. If he had given a valiant effort where it was clear he could do nothing else, he would not face this criticism. He didn't. He sleepwalked through 7 rounds and gave up the moment Lomachenko turned it on.

Walters has every right to quit, but fans, fighters, and the media have every right to call him out for an embarrassing effort and a total lack of heart. Spare me the "couch potato fans who wouldn't climb a set of stairs" crap. Fighters are calling Walters out for this. Especially one week after Ward came back from a KD and early domination to win a fight.

This is like Ward quitting after the 2nd round against Kovalev. This is like Saul Alvarez quitting halfway through the Mayweather fight. This is like Postol quitting against Crawford. Walters did do something unforgivable to the huge majority of the fighting world, and he will pay the consequences for it.

[bojangles1987]

Let's be honest, if a professional fighter isn't willing to take what Walters went through against Lomachenko, why the hell would they be a professional fighter? If you really don't have the confidence to go out for even one more round and give a serious effort to turn the fight around, why the hell did you show up to begin with?

[g27region]

Why people is so angry at Walters for giving up? I mean, everybody ain't supposed to be warriors plus we don't know his health conditions, maybe he got some internal injury or something like that. But you might argue that if you're not sure about your condition, you're not supposed to take any fights in the first place, but man Walters seems like a great person, always respectful and friendly to his opponents and all that, that kind of mentality oftenly comes from places where people don't have much to share and I like that, he seems like a great person you can smoke weed with, so **** what other people here saying. Everybody ain't supposed to be warriors, Walters needs to leave boxing, **** that ****, and just enjoy his life. Even Lomachenko said **** all of you who talk thrash about him, I've been in his dressing room and we talked, and he's alright

[Dr Rumack]

Yes, we should judge fighters in terms of how well they would do in an athletic contest with Dan Rafael.

[angkag]

Here's a thought for all the armchair warriors:

BEFORE the Holyfield/Tyson rematch, Teddy Atlas said this:

"He's going to get himself disqualified," Atlas said Friday afternoon. "He'll bite Holyfield. He'll butt him. He'll hit him low. He'll do something if he don't get him early with a lucky shot.

"I know this guy. He's got this all set up in his mind. The way out. That's the only way he can face it. That's what this is all about."

Tyson's way out was to go the bite route. Walters' way out was to say 'can't win this, no point going on'. Bottom line, both did exactly the same thing, looked for a way out of the fight (and in Tyson's case, was even predicted by someone who knew him very well).

Which way do you think was the most honorable/smartest ?

Tyson's sure made for better TV. Is that whats its all about ? Should Walters have tried to bite Loma's ears off for us to still consider him a warrior ?