Rafael Marquez To Be Out For Six Months, Hairline Fracture

[Gandalf]

and juanma's fans were insinuating that rafa quit! what a joke!

But he did quit. What else would you call that?

There's nothin wrong with that though. He fought a tremendous battle.

There are different types of quitting though. If he had stopped with no real justification ie. Duran/Leonard, then that to me is quitting in it's true sense. But to pull out with a hairline fracture? No, you don't really have a choice. I would argue that he shouldn't have fought knowing there was a problem, but he obviously didn't want to cancel again.

With such a serious injury and at 35, I don't think we will be seeing a rematch. You sense that a 2 armed Marquez could have got the job done, but if we wait another year even those two hands might not be enough anymore.