Comments Thread For: Ohara Davies: I Didn't Quit With Josh Taylor, I Couldn't Breathe

[John Locke]

So much **** is posted about fighters "quitting" by keyboard warriors who have never pulled on a pair of boxing gloves in their lives.

If Davis had stayed down and been counted out after being decked for the second time, he would have been a warrior who went out on his shield. But because he got up and tried to fight on, he's a quitter!

If the truth be told, many fights that end inside the distance end with one guy "quitting"

They don't try to beat the count after getting decked, they go to the ropes and cover up without firing back, they show the ref or their corner they've had enough with their body language, or by not responding to questions, etc, etc.

Sometimes they are more honest about it .. they take a knee or wave a hand, like Davis ... and that's when they become "quitters".

Exactly, well said.

[Eff Pandas]

Idk why people get so f#cking weird about quitting. Fans & fighters alike most of the time. Its merely a word not a definition of who someone is as a person necessarily. We are all "quitters" if things go bad enough for us in a situation its merely a question of what that situation is to get us to quitting.

As for this specific fight I predicted Ohara to win & I like the guy more than Taylor, but just like in the Kell Brook fight vs Spence, the fighter quit. Ohara had taken more punishment or was in a position he deemed too uncomfortable to want to deal with further. It is what it is. He lost via quitting.

Granted there is a rule, with exceptions, that once one quits in a fight they tend to quit easier in the future & that may or may not prove to be true for Ohara in the future, but mainly people need to quit being so damn weird about fighters deciding they have had enough. The goal in this sport is to beat the other guy & to me that means winning by decision, KOing a guy or making him quit. Its all a W to me & its all a L for the other guy. I don't need to see a guy senseless on the floor before I deem the other guy the winner.

[IronDanHamza]

Literally turned your back and quit.

There wasn't even sufficent damage, just a knockdown.

[Boxing Logic]

I didn't watch the fight but if he couldn't breathe out of nostrils, why not breathe out of his mouth? Sounds like a weird excuse but maybe he panicked?

[mlac]

So much **** is posted about fighters "quitting" by keyboard warriors who have never pulled on a pair of boxing gloves in their lives.

If Davis had stayed down and been counted out after being decked for the second time, he would have been a warrior who went out on his shield. But because he got up and tried to fight on, he's a quitter!

Um no, both examples you used are quitting, did people say charles martin 'went out on his sheild' V AJ ?

Ohara literally turned his back, shook his head. he didnt want to get hit anymore.
It's literally the definition of quitting mate

[John Locke]

I didn't watch the fight but if he couldn't breathe out of nostrils, why not breathe out of his mouth? Sounds like a weird excuse but maybe he panicked?

He took some sickening body shots throughout the fight, they take the wind out of you. Davies isn't some skilled fighter that can move around the ring, clinch etc to recover, get his wind back. He's a basic, limited fighter who had the oxygen beaten out of him. He could no longer defend himself.

You guys make this **** sound so easy on here

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

I call BS its natural instinct when your nose get clogged and you cant breath your mouth opens up to breath from. Dude wanted out.

[p4ptbe]

KKKovalev, Kelly Brooks & Ohara Dummy! 2017 Is the year of great fights and tough talking quitters!

[p4ptbe]

I didn't watch the fight but if he couldn't breathe out of nostrils, why not breathe out of his mouth? Sounds like a weird excuse but maybe he panicked?

he is lying like kell brook, kovalev and manny the excuse makers! he put his hand over his eye like his eye hurt! unless his nostrils are located inside his eyes its a lie

[p4ptbe]

Literally turned your back and quit.

There wasn't even sufficent damage, just a knockdown.

he took that straight right or a jab i think and just said nah i dont want no more! he touched his eye but now is saying he cant breath lmfao! i guess his nostrils are inside his eyes