Not 1 thread on how ryan garcia quit?

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  1. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And that makes it official because you have always defended the right of a fighter to live to fight another day.
     
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  2. chino2dapiapimp

    chino2dapiapimp WBC Fecarbox champ Full Member

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    It looked bad as if he could continue.
     
    chino2dapiapimp, Apr 22, 2023
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  3. Showstopper97

    Showstopper97 The Icon Full Member

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    I'll give him the benefit of doubt, but I wouldn't blame him if he really did quit. He was in way over his head to take this fight in the first place, & he realised that from the 2nd round.
     
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  4. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    I thought he quit, he didn't even try to get up, but he was clearly badly hurt by the body shot, not sure he would of been in a condition to continue even if he has gotten up before the 10 count the ref might have seen his condition and stopped it because he looked to be in agony.
     
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  5. lufcrazy

    lufcrazy requiescat in pace Full Member

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    Well this is a thread about it. Why do you need others?
     
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  6. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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    I know the real reason it ended like that and I am not going to go into it in public but those of us in the real know, on the inside? We know some things. Feel free to PM me if you are not there yet but it is not my truth to share in the greater public forum.
     
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  7. Braindamage

    Braindamage Baby Face Beast Full Member

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    It's not so much that he went down from the punch, just that he got up instantly when the fight was waived off. He could have stood at 7 or 8.
     
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  8. TEAM_LOMA

    TEAM_LOMA This is Boxing Full Member

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    He made the right choice
     
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  9. kirk

    kirk l l l Staff Member

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    Just to clarify, I do still defend that right. And I don't overly shame Ryan for quitting here.

    But it also doesn't mean that I'm not going to call a spade a spade, and that it doesn't get quantified in relation to other quitting instances.

    I'm always defending fighters who quit because it's almost always a scenario where a fighters eye sight may be in jeopardy (brook), have given their best go, have no gas left and are getting repeatedly knocked down and battered (AJ), fighting through a broken jaw (Ortiz), ect ect.

    Personally I don't place this in those categories, and I view this as a more extreme degree of quitting.

    I still don't think I'm shaming him for the decision, though I am disappointed in it, I'm merely calling it for what I see it as and where it falls on the scale of things, to me.
     
    kirk, Apr 23, 2023
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  10. African Cobra

    African Cobra The Right Honourable Lord President of the Council Full Member

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    This is why Floyd encouraged Tank to take the fight:


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  11. OldSchoolBoxing

    OldSchoolBoxing Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Maybe he remembered that he has to go down in round 7. Forgot the script.
     
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  12. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I love Floyd but he is still the same boy that yelled in Merchant's face that he don't know **** about boxing.

    For better or for worse.
     
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  13. Bofo24

    Bofo24 hobbyist Full Member

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    Wise choice really, why take more unnecessary damage?
    Better than faking an injury and quitting on the stool.
     
    Bofo24, Apr 23, 2023
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  14. chacal

    chacal F*** the new normal Full Member

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    That body shot was brutal. He was not going to recover from that. Could he have got up? It looks like so, bu he was only getting up to be put on the ground again. I don't blame him.
     
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  15. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    It is awful the way some fans just can't absorb, even after years and years of watching the sport, what targetted body punching can do. He might have quit. It is not impossible. I don't see why, he's a professional fighter who has some good punching power so could have had one more launch at it even if he decided that Tank was unbeatable, but it is very possible that he was paralyzed by the shot. The difference between nine and ten can be the world and you see, over and over again, through the last 100 years of gloved fighting, guys push through their legs to stand and freeze when hit like that.

    Very weird to insist he definitely quit.
     
    McGrain, Apr 23, 2023
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