Comments Thread For: Haye, Bellew Debate if Anthony Joshua 'Quit' in Andy Ruiz Loss

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He quit, we all know it.

[Adamsc151]

I don't think Joshua quit, I reckon he was trying to con an extra few seconds of recovery time and waste a bit of more time from the round. Sometimes refs are wise to these dark arts and will not accept them.

[Articulateboxin]

Rather he quit or not. He is soft. Mentally weak. Not mean enough and has no killer instinct. ��

Well I can't know whether or not he is soft, or mentally weak. (though having seemingly the whole world turn over night couldn't have been easy and yet he took the rematch regardless) However I couldn't disagree more with a lack of killer instinct. It was his killer instinct that got him knocked down in the first place. If he had been in safety first mode, he would have just stick out a jab and continued to fight post KD. Instead he rushed Ruiz looking to knock him out in devastating fashion, even if that meant trading hooks with a hooker.

In regards to whether he quit or not. Christ, spitting the gum shield out isn't a sign of quitting, it's a sign of willing to go on and hoping to buy yourself time so you can come back and whoop some ass. Could you imagine calling Coralles a quitter? There is a hell of a lot more you can do to quit, than stand there, following refs instructions and nodding his head when asked to. Now i'm not saying a huge part of AJ wouldnt have wanted out of there...but he didn't shake his head at any point.

[MDPopescu]

Definitely.

Only Joshua truly knows if he actually "quit" but he certainly trying to get a breather with the mouthpiece stunt, and showed all the signs of a fighter not wanting to continue.

Ridiculous comments from bellew btw.

... in the RBR thread of that fight, I said here that AJ is done for boxing even since the 3rd round...

[Plick647]

Rather he quit or not. He is soft. Mentally weak. Not mean enough and has no killer instinct. 🥊

this, this, this, and this!

hit the nail on the head, right there! Props to you!

[Zwikker]

If he quit why go through 4 more rounds with concussion

[Idunnoshet]

Can't say anything Bellews says serious.
At this point he's just a mouthpiece for Hear / Matchroom.

[deathofaclown]

Bellew licks AJ’s crack though, he will always defend him. I’ve never seen a man that sucks up to another man that much, it’s embarrassing to watch on TV.

He slated Brook and said he quit v Spence but Brook suffered the same eye injury that he had in the previous fight with GGG and a doctor said it could’ve blinded him.

So he’ll slate a man for quitting with a broken eye socket and with the thoughts of being blinded in his mind, yet he won’t slate AJ, who basically just got outclassed and dropped repeatedly, spit his gum-shield out and basically quit. He didn’t protest anything, he wanted out when he knew he couldn’t win.

[Sparked_26]

I don’t think he quit but his eyes were glazed and that second wind was never coming and everyone and the ref could see it.

Ruiz would have sparked him out. Unless his engine absolutely tanked.

I still don’t understand how such a fatty has such a great engine. He must operate differently to the rest of us. Using fat and not glucose from the jump. He should donate himself to science

[Vegemil]

Of course Griffin did the right thing when he stopped the fight...

He did the right thing because AJ was stalling but that doesn't mean he's a quitter. Just means he was trying to cheat.