Victor Ortiz is a quiter

[Kirkland Laing]

I just watched it. It's weird the way he quit like that. At the end of the fifth he would have been quite happy if his corner had stopped it. I'm guessing in the next week or two we hear that he had bunch of personal problems, that his mind wasn't on the fight, he'll be back better than ever and so on. If he does come back he'll probably do the same thing again though. Something is just not right in his makeup.

[dee_z_r]

victor ortiz seems like a great fighter actually to me and i think its unfair ppl sayin hes not fit to be a boxer.
wen roberto duran refused to fight against leanord did he deserve to give up boxing??

[BoxingGorilla]

It's weird the way he quit like that. At the end of the fifth he would have been quite happy if his corner had stopped it. Something is just not right in his makeup.

On this I agree.

Like I said, I do not blame him for quitting. I'd of quit. However, now that I've read what Liang had to say, I am reminded of Mike Tyson and his strange ways.

[killersheep]

I maintain that Ortiz has the skills to beat Maidana. He got carried away trying to slug it out with a stronger fighter. When he quit, it looked like he had a golf ball under his eye and the Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles got a shot at his other eye.

To me it did sound like he was considering quitting boxing altogether. Not that he had made up his mind, but he was considering it. It is easy to imagine the Ortiz was overwhelmed in every sense of the word. GBP talking him up as the next big thing, HBO talking him up as indestructable.
So much pressure inside and outside the ring. Some people can't handle it, it's the way of things.