Any Boxer who ever quit because....

[Rockybigblower]

Didnt vitali want the ref to stop the shannon briggs fight?

[Rockybigblower]

And kell brook quit after realising GGG couldnt deal with his speed.

[Derranged]

Lomachenko went easy on Sosa in the last round.

[Verbalk]

I think when Kovalev fought Roman Simakov on that fateful night , he didn't go for the head as much as he would have. Even Sergei had the heart to lay off a bit and go for the body instead. I think he was left with no choice with the ref not stopping the fight and Simakov trying to punish him on the other hand.

Tough fight to rewatch. Dangers of the sport.

[PRINCEKOOL]

I can remember Mike Tyson doing this afew times........

[Mike D]

In both of Brian Sutherland's professional fights he faked getting KO'd because he knew that he might kill his opponent.

[boliodogs]

I have never heard of that happening. I have heard of boxers asking the ref to stop the fight to save their obviously beaten opponent from further damage. If the ref wouldn't stop the fight they kept punching the guy. I would have no problem with a kind boxer who left the ring rather than continue punching a badly beaten opponent.

[ShowStopper21]

In both of Brian Sutherland's professional fights he faked getting KO'd because he knew that he might kill his opponent.

Yep, I could tell in that first fight he took a second to think about whether he wanted to go down or not...thankfully for his opponent Sutherland took a dive. I've never seen that type of humility in all my years of watching boxing...

[GhostofDempsey]

I recall watching Larry Holmes teeing off on Marvis Frazier and waving the ref in to stop the fight.

[Mike D]

Yep, I could tell in that first fight he took a second to think about whether he wanted to go down or not...thankfully for his opponent Sutherland took a dive. I've never seen that type of humility in all my years of watching boxing...

He's a humanitarian. Like he said, it's just a sport. It's not worth taking a man's life even though he can snatch the beating heart right out of an opponent's chest at any moment of his choosing. But for what? To get a W on your official record?