Why does ray Robinson never get any stick for quitting against maxim ?

the greatest athletes, performers, heros, you name it, are, despite there greatness...still just human and vunerable like everyone else

 

what you gonna do? call him a quitter?

 

Almost dropping dead from heat stroke doesn't really strike me as quitting.

 

Maxim took the same heat but he was bigger and have more fat, there's the difference.

 

^ this

 

first of all, he didn't quit. he couldn't continue, there's a difference. he literally couldn't fight on.

secondly, even if he did quit, that's like highlighting a flaw in The Mona Lisa. It's beyond nitpicking.

 

If this was a prime SRR there would be no excuse. This was an older, smaller guy putting a clinic on a bigger fighter. So the excuse is justified. Had they had a rematch anywhere else SRR would of been LHW champ too. Maxim had alil luck on his side.

 

Even the ref quit

 

Another **** thread.

 

^This !

 

I'd suggest there's just a slight difference between physical degeneration to the point of collapse and a conscious decision not to continue; namely personal will and volition.

 

Reply and Vote on my Barry Sanders thread in the Lounge. :deal

 

Maxim also fought a slower pace better suited to the heat, if SRR lowered the workrate he coulda won a snoozer and lasted but he wanted to put ona champion performance like always

 

In other words the boxer with the better game plan won. Robinson may have won if it was 70 degrees, but it wasn't. Robinson may have won if he came in at a weight closser to the light heavyweight limit, but he didn't. Maybe he wanted to be able to retain his Middleweight championship?