I've never liked slapping labels of guys, among them bum, quitter and great not necessarily in that order . Truth is I've never had the pleasure of having my face shattered over a few rounds and knowing what my instinct would be in a ring with rules. In the bigger picture Dubois indeed quit, opted out, bent the knee etc. But I've come around from 'a quit is a quit' years ago to seeing some varying degrees of a fighter deciding he wants out. We've seen quits out of mere frustration, quits on the ring walk before they even entered , quits from some just there for the payday doing flop jobs brought into lose, the Golota panic type quits, and guys who take a subtle sustained hammering with obvious injury and Dubois falls there for me. Dubois proved to have little adjustments and ran pretty much one predictable gear which doesn't bode well for his future but it's not like he blames a case of the fight day shits or flying out of the ring through the ropes Superfly Kermit Cintron style . There was talk of the ref blowing it and that's valid, even the corner and ring doctor. Ultimately you have to look out for the fighter above all. A corner watches a guy breakdown up close and personal all night long and they know them better than anyone. Ref sees it every night too and that's their job. Dubois may have to shake a little stigma but he can't buy into this defining him only he can do that over a career.