REAL TALK: FACT=Brook Quit, Fact=Brook is a Quitter, he's still a tough bloke and no coward!!!

He quit when he feared for his sight. All the other injuries you list pale in comparison, so obviously, no, I wouldn't give him a free pass for those because they can be fully recovered from and would not be adversely life-changing. And if you can't see that, maybe you've lost your (in)sight. You have a very one-eyed view on this. At best blinkered...

 

Because quit isn't necesserily negative, most of the time it's just another way of saying he retired from the fight. Quitter is 9 times out of 10 used as a synonym for coward.

 

I just don't think that an armchair can talk about a fighter quitting in a room full of boxers. Boxers are cordial until their heart is questioned. Then you find out who the real ***** is. Sure you can do it here online where you're safe and warm lmao, but the word QUIT doesn't apply in Brooks case.

Fans imagine that there is a pain threshold that fighters should be able to take and think that fighters are above pain and quitting. You think Abraham fighting with his jaw broken, and fighters fighting with cuts and Lebedev with the super swollen face so you hold fighters to standards of other fighters when the pain threshold is different in every fighter.

 

He quit when he was getting battered. The GGG fight he's eye socket was broken from the 2nd round, he was okay to carry on when he was having success but when GGG got on top and looked like stopping him he let his corner know get me out of here.

In the Spence fight I believe it was the 7th or 8th when the eye was hurting but he only really gave in when Spence was starting to dish out the serious punishment.

I will once again add I am not against what he did but I am also not against fans criticising what he did, I see both sides of the argument. He quit plain and simple and is now a quitter however I don't think he is a coward and I respect his skill.

 

It's ok to quit in boxing. If you suffer a terrible injury it's ok to quit. It's rare that fighters quit. MMA fighters tap out for a reason. If there is dignity in tapping out while others would rather go unconscious then so be it.

I've seen and I know fighters who have lost an eye and it's a terrible thing to see and scary to look at. Foh with the word quit. **** you. You'll know a quitter when you see one.

 

I don't buy into your 'being reasonable' smokescreen. I'd have more respect for you if you just committed to what you really think, rather than try hide your real point behind rhetoric and faux balance. You've kinda quit on yourself here. Have the courage of your convictions...

 

He had to quit or get seriously injured, probably lose an eye...........

 

You don't have to buy into it, I'm not selling anything, just like Im not impressed by your lackluster innuendos. You obvisously will make excuses for a combat fighter to quit in the ring in the 11th round, I on the other hand won't.

 

I'm sure that if Brook had fought on and was now sitting at home blinded in one eye and forced to retire he would rest easy in the fact that a few guys on a forum didn't think he was a quitter....

 

Ahh great, finally you give us your real point of view, minus all the 'noise' you tried to hide it behind

 

He definitely quit. In that eleventh round I could see his mind working on a way to do it. He was done. He gave it all that he had and that young mofo was still standing and punching just as hard as he did in round one. He was relentless and Brook said bump this mess. I need to stop taking this ass whooping. His brain said, Yo eye fool, blame it on the eye and that's what he did.

 

Exactly I won't make excuses for him, I also won't call him a coward unless he does it like Walters or Chavez jr. but you won't catch me saying he is not a quitter because he is in his last two fights.

 

Your spot on, I soon as he starting tapping that eye again, I knew he was waiting for the towel to come in but this time his Ingle thought your not in there with a hard punching MW he's an inexperienced kid your size, you gotta fight this out.

So he was forced to do it himself this time.

 

Nothing wrong with a man quitting but he needs to be a man about it. I had big respect for Morales when he quit against Pac because he didn't look for no outside excuse. He just shook his head and said I'm done. He realized that he gave it his all and Pac was just too much for him that night, Brook on the other hand knew that his eye was jacked up at the end of the tenth. If he had serious concerns then he would and should have stopped then. In the eleventh round before he started winking and blinking he was getting a sound thrashing and I truly believe that he didn't want to get knocked out and made the decision to quit based on his eye. Make no mistake, he got tons of heart, he just got more pride than he does heart. Him stretched out on the canvass at Sheffield is not a good look. I know I am a little hard on him but dang, he ran for two years. He finally got cornered and beat down.

 

So did David Haye quit then vs Bellew because his corner threw in the towel?