Was it OK for Cotto to "quit" in Cotto vs Margarito I?

[ono]

Only an idiot would be willing to die in the ring. Boxing is a job.

[Gandalf]

Only an idiot would be willing to die in the ring. Boxing is a job.

It's hardly accountancy. It's more than a white collar job, but death is perhaps a tad extreme.

[Beanflicker]

You need a certain amount of the "never say die" attitude, but why would you want to end up like Meldrick Taylor or Gerald Mcclellan.

[InTheNeutralCorner]

Cotto didn't quit, he preserved his life to fight another day.

And that day is soon.

Addendum: Silly me, what I just said is one of the choices. I should have looked at the polls first.

[Nameless]

When a guy's face is a black and red mark and that he really doesn't feel well, I think it's safe to say that he did the correct thing to quit. There is a life after boxing, and generally, there is more time after than during the boxing period. I think that it's not unfair to ask for some quality time after with something else than parkinson or pugilistic demencia. Cotto couldn't win to that point but could receive more damage, the risk doesn't worth the end bell.

[Majesty]

Cotto has that mentality that he doesn't want to risk his life in the ring and would rather fold than continue to take a beating. He said as much when he had the face to face with Margarito. He said "this is my job, I have kids, I'm not gonna waste my time taking a beating and not be able to go see them" something to that extent, and he basically thought Margarito was crazy that he would rather die in the ring than quit.


I commend Cotto for putting his life ahead of the sport, but I'm not sure he wanted to reveal something like that in front of the man he's about to rematch. If your opponent knows you'd rather quit then fight if you're getting hurt too badly it is gonna put them at the mental advantage cause they know they can make you quit, and when you openly admit it to them it can make things worse. So I commend Cotto, but I don't think "this is just my job, what kind of idiot would continue to fight on" is the kind of message you wanna send to a guy that's already done it to you once.

[p4pking]

Pretty funny that the only people who have even suggested that Cotto did anything close to quit in the first place are the 2 resident E thug jokers.

[ono]

Only an idiot would be willing to die in the ring. Boxing is a job.

It's hardly accountancy. It's more than a white collar job, but death is perhaps a tad extreme.

You reckon?