Re: Quiting
Originally Posted by
Beanflicker
I think, in this case, it has more to do with the fact that nobody gives a flying fuck about Geale. He was brought in to lose and he did his job, whereas Victor Ortiz was being pushed as the next Oscar de la Hoya and quit against Maidana because, in his words, he was young and didn't deserve to be getting beat up like that - not exactly the words of a champion prizefighter.
There are a lot of degrees of quitting, and quitting takes a lot of different forms. You see a lot of guys quit mentally without actually verbally quitting. Guys go in with a game plan, it doesn't work out, they start getting hit and then they just quit mentally and either look for a nice place to fall on the canvas or go into survival mode to get to the final bell. I've seen many times where I believe quitting was justified - guys who are losing by a landslide, are physically broken and have nothing left in the tank who would just be getting off their stools to take more punishment.
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