Comments Thread For: Kell Brook: My Injuries Were Legit - Rigondeaux Just Quit!

[Raonic]

I'd give Brook the benefit of the doubt considering he had a fractured eye socket and has had eye problems since that fight.

[kingstip9]

There's certainly levels to quitting. Rigondeux took it to a whole new level in recent years

[toff]

Getting paid

Rigo is up there in age, he's an excellent fighter that nobody wants to fight near his natural weight,

I believe he did what he had to do which was to make some paper.

It appears arum never got over Rigo upsetting his money machine donaire and this is payback. Rigo had to much stacked against him in this fight.

[mbase1235]

Why do people keep bringing up that Kell had an injury when he quit. When someone repeatedly punches you in the face and brakes your eye socket that is not considered and injury. He quit because he couldn't take Spence punching him in the same face that Spence broke. Brook didn't trip and injure his eye, his eye was broken by Spence.

Exactly!!! It's not like injuring your shoulder or something when you threw a punch. The eye was broken by Spence, and Spence made Brook quit, not an unrelated injury. Just like Loma made Rigo quit. There are difference circumstances, but both fighters quit in situations where many other fighters would have continued.

[Jsmooth9876]

I defended Ezekiel after he quit, but these comments make me less sympathetic in both the GGG and Spence fights. Both he and Rigo quit. Trying to excuse one and not the other is lame. In the Spence fight, he was the bigger guy in his home town in front of 27k of his fans and he was made to quit... Just doesn't seem like the right guy to hear from criticizing another quitter. Ultimate pot calling the kettle black situation.

One guy quit with a bruised hand (or ego) the other with a Fractured face. Yeah, same exact thing.

[methodcal]

you are aware that he is universally considered the best lightweight of all time right? The guy was already a hall of famer before he ever set foot in the ring with sugar ray.

Hall of Fame Quitter. Agreed!!

[THC]

Why do people keep bringing up that Kell had an injury when he quit. When someone repeatedly punches you in the face and brakes your eye socket that is not considered and injury.

Please explain your criteria for an injury sustained during a fight. An example from a recent fight would be helpful. Thx.

[rrayvez]

Hall of Fame Quitter. Agreed!!

that's the type of comment a casual would make. No need to debate further.

[D4thincarnation]

You been living under a rock or something? Roberto Duran made the phrase "No mas" famous which is applied to every QUITTER in the sport. LMFAO!!

He never actually said "No Mas"

[Redd Foxx]

Sure, one quit wasn't as bad as the other quit, but what Brook fails to realize is how ****** he looks, as a quitter, calling someone else a quitter. The "pot and kettle" phrase has been around forever because people find this kind of thing pretty hypocritical and distasteful. They always have.