An open letter to each and every person who calls Cotto a 'quitter'

Have you even bothered to read all the posts in this thread? Mate, he absolutely did not quit, and that's that. Enough of this now. The guy was beaten almost to a pulp, he took a knee desperately trying to recover, and his uncle saw what a state he was in and rightly stepped in forcing the referee to stop it. Miguel Cotto did not take part in the decision to end the fight, so he cannot be said to have quit. If he had not rose to beat the count, he would've chosen to end the contest, but that simply didn't happen and you can't just say he did when he did not.

I genuinely believe that you don't realize that you are in fact a sadist. You are conveying disappointment in a man who desperately needed a brief respite from the unbelievable pressure he was under to muster enough strength to battle on. You are conveying disappointment in a man who had given his courage, his blood, his energy, to entertaining us in a brutal, brilliant boxing match, and we should be thankful for that, not critical that he didn't take enough punishment or didn't shed enough blood to satisfy you- though there was an enormous amount of punishment and blood anyway IMO.

There honestly isn't any point in us carrying on this debate as clearly our two points of view are far too different to ever reconcile. I do ask you though, to read my posts on this, to consider what you shouted at the tv during the Benn-McClennan fight when Gerald McClennan did the exact same thing that Cotto did in round 11, to try and begin to understand the awesome physical pain and exhaustion that must have been enveloping Miguel Cotto at the time of the 2nd knee, to appreciate Evangelista Cotto's emotions at that time seeing his nephew's face spewing blood, knowing his wife and children were at ringside.

Ask yourself: why would it have been better for Miguel Cotto, for Kenny Bayless, for Evaneglista Cotto, for you, for me, to be complicit in a brutal and bloody knockout, that may have caused permenant damage to an already beaten man? Why did Miguel Cotto's acceptance that he was in trouble engender feelings of anger, frustration, and scorn in you?

I love boxing with my whole heart, and I'm sorry, but although I accept you are maybe not a bad person as I do not know you so can't judge you, I do believe that you and the others you have commented on this thread who share your views, are a danger to boxing, and should abandon the sport and watch UFC or something similar.

Anyone who sees a man drop to one knee with blood all over his face, who you have just watched take heavy punishment to the face and head for a prolonged period, and who would even dare doubt the man's heart or criticize him for succumbing momentarily to physical pain and pressure, does not belong in a sport called 'The Noble Art'.

I'm genuinely not being derogatory or trying to insult you, I truly think that you would find the satisfaction you demand from UFC rather than boxing. Your values and beliefs do not belong in a 21st century boxing ring, where us 21st century boxing fans are proud of our great boxers and proud of our great fights, and do not desire, as a poster called Asterion called for earlier in this thread, for a beaten and bloody man to 'take more punches' because 'he could'.

That is not boxing.

Enough.