Is Brook a "quitter?"

[TitoFan]

Tor Hammer was a quitter. Freitas against Chico was a quitter. Duran against SR was a quitter. Even Cotto against Margo was a quitter, But the difference between Hammer quitting and Cotto quitting is all the difference you need to understand that quitting can mean different things depending on the context.

Brook did not quit. he was beaten into submission and took his knee to save is eyes.Maybe in a dictionary sense he qui, but certain not in a boxing sense.

IMHO

Brook did not quit but Cotto did? I guess we draw our lines according to our own biases. Cotto took a knee to save himself from a career-ending beating at the plaster-casted hands of a proven cheater. A loss he later avenged. He's also been in a hell of a lot more wars than Brook certainly has. Not being a professional fighter myself and having never been in that position, I'll choose to exclude Cotto from that list.

Freitas and Duran absolutely quit in their respective fights.

[El Kabong]

Yeah got to agree with @TitoFan here...getting blasted in the head with plaster wraps and taking a knee doesn't mean the guy is a quitter. When you have given all you have and you aren't winning the fight but you could just continue on taking punishment when does it become OK to say "I've had enough" or "I'll take the L and fight on another time"? When is that ok? Should every fight like that end up like Holmes-Cobb (not alleging Holmes loaded his gloves, that was just a merciless beating) or Resto-Collins?

[holmcall]

Yeah got to agree with @TitoFan here...getting blasted in the head with plaster wraps and taking a knee doesn't mean the guy is a quitter. When you have given all you have and you aren't winning the fight but you could just continue on taking punishment when does it become OK to say "I've had enough" or "I'll take the L and fight on another time"? When is that ok? Should every fight like that end up like Holmes-Cobb (not alleging Holmes loaded his gloves, that was just a merciless beating) or Resto-Collins?

What part of "But the difference between Hammer quitting and Cotto quitting is all the difference you need to understand that quitting can mean different things depending on the context" did you and Tito miss? We are all on the same page with Cotto