“Shouldn’t a prize fighter be able to carry on for six more minutes with an injury?”

[Toffee]

He fought as much as 6 rounds with it... that's over 20 minutes since the injury. Should he have been able to do another 10 minutes? Well only he knows.

If he felt a serious issue with his eye then I can't blame him. Better on your knee than your career over due to blindness in one eye. Without knowing what it was he felt then it's difficult for us mere mortals to judge.

[leeroy84]

He fought as much as 6 rounds with it... that's over 20 minutes since the injury. Should he have been able to do another 10 minutes? Well only he knows.

If he felt a serious issue with his eye then I can't blame him. Better on your knee than your career over due to blindness in one eye. Without knowing what it was he felt then it's difficult for us mere mortals to judge.

Not sure if OP can go past ten mate, he may need to take his socks off.

[IcefergBoxing]

I think that's a bit harsh.

[Zonkmeister]

I bet he could have fought on. Which may have been an extremely terrible idea because his opponent was, you know, still punching and not looking as if he were about to stop, lol. Any halfway decent fighter notices an injury like that is gonna keep targeting it. Quitting is quitting, but "discretion - better part of valor" and all that.

[Zaryu]

It depends on the injury...

[PRINCEKOOL]

Daniel Dubois is receiving high level abuse, I have never seen this type of reaction to a up and coming fighter's performance.

How Dubois handles this situation is a pivotal moment in his career. I was encouraged in seeing him and nobody else speaking for him in the past fight interview etc

[Theuklion]

It was plainly obvious that as soon as the jab landed he felt something he clearly hadn't felt ever before, either in his eye or deeper in his skull, a pain of which he'd never experienced either during a fight or during sparring, you could see by his reaction how he immediately wiped at the eye and instantly took the knee that it it worried him and despite his eye closing badly in the previous few rounds, he kept on fighting because that's what fighters do.
I find it amazing on boxing forum after we all watched it unfold some are questioning what happened.
This wasn't Duran having his heart broken and quitting on his stool because he couldn't get his own way, this was a pain shooting through his eye and possibly into his skull that worried him to such and extent he decided losing was a better option in a fight he was winning.
I for one am not going to condemn a man for that.
Some absolute dummies on this board.

[shenmue]

Imagine living such a sad life like the op does, he seems obsessed about this, the the 4th or 5th thread he has made about it.

[The D3vil]

You're talking about a shoulder vs. an eye.

Totally different realm

[daggum]

my thought is why couldnt the change the fight to 10 rounds halfway through the fight so dubois could win? or better yet 9!