Guess Brook should have fought on until he received permanent injury. After all, nothing is more important than the respect of anonymous dudes on the almighty internet....
Guess Brook should have fought on until he received permanent injury. After all, nothing is more important than the respect of anonymous dudes on the almighty internet....
I think Brook took a knee and ultimately quit because he feared going blind, which is understandable given what happened against GGG. A lot of boxers would have tried to fight through it, but that speaks to bravery on their part much more than cowardice on Brook's. He's human. He put up a good fight against a very talented young fighter, it's not as if he started looking for a way out as soon as he took a hard punch.
I think Brook took a knee and ultimately quit because he feared going blind, which is understandable given what happened against GGG. A lot of boxers would have tried to fight through it, but that speaks to bravery on their part much more than cowardice on Brook's. He's human. He put up a good fight against a very talented young fighter, it's not as if he started looking for a way out as soon as he took a hard punch.
Yeah, he was going to get knocked out anyway. Dude was completely gassed, hurt, and couldn't see.
I get that everyone wants to really twist that knife in after all those crazy threads by Brit posters leading up to the fight, but that shit's to be expected... one of their guys facing an American always gets them fired up.
I got nothing against Brook for quitting and I don't think fans should give him too much **** for it. He's a good fighter, put up a fight and gave fans more than their moneys worth, and I'd like to see him again health permitting.
Neither guys are cowards, this is a dangerous combat " Sport " its not a death match, its easy for you to sit there and say coward, you have no idea what gameness really is, or how rare dead gameness is.
Fighters at this level are very game but they all have a limit where their brain weighs up the situation and it has no reason to go on to get killed, so they quit. Put Cottos daughter in the picture with a gun at her head and Cotto probably takes Margo out or dies trying, the difference is in the motivation and the reason, its way more mental than physical. You cannot be a fighter at this level and not be a very tough game man, dead game is an entirely different deal.
Is it right for the gallery to judge the courage in a gladiator, not in my book it isn't !
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