Cowards in the ring

Yeah, but he called for a 'time out' against a 16 year old kid iirc.

 

Isn't that the guy who punched Roger Mayweather behind his back?

 

I watched that few years ago, that boy beat the crap out of him.

 

Cowards clearly & demonstrably do step into a ring. It’s called money.

 

…& the answer is Michael Spinks.

 

I don't call a man in the ring a coward, from the comfort of my armchair.

I have explored the limits of human quit as an endurance athlete, and probably as an older and more worldly man than the average boxing champion.

I kind of understand what happened in a lot of these cases.

 

If you (anyone, really) have proven brave yourself then you should feel comfortable calling cowardice out.

 

I’ll pass on fighting Wilder.

 

Mario Cawley number 1, He fell headfirst to the ground on at least 10 occasions without being hit.

Tor Hamer, Bogdan Dinu, Izuagbe Ugonoh and Malik Scott

In my opinion, all 4 had a great future at the time but they did not manage to achieve anything due to lack of character and attitude, if the fight got tough they would quit

 

Good choice, even at this stage of his career.

 

Cowardice is saying to somebody on the internet, something that you wouldn't say to their face.

Cowardice is responding to a comment on Facebook with a laughing emoji, but not saying why you disagree with it.

The greatest form of cowardice, is probably letting somebody pressure you into doing something ugly, that you later feel ashamed of.

Quitting against a world class fighter is not cowardice, it is just a brave human finding their limits, which might happen to be less than some other fighters.

 

Good post. The term is used way too flippantly. No one breezily using that term and naming names in this thread has any ****ing idea what was going on with a given fighter in any given moment. Yet they have zero problem spouting it as if they were everyone's judge.

Kind of a dick move.

 

What would Morrison turning and running from Foreman be considered? He didn't quit, he actually won the fight, but what about that display he put on

 

Honorable mention goes to Zhan Kossobutskiy. He deliberately fouled his way out of a fight with Ajaba and went from an undefeated prospect to seemingly ending his career.

 

It can manifest in all sorts of ways. Like accepting full payment & then deliberately giving a non-performance because you’re afraid of your opponent.

It’s okay to be afraid. It’s not okay to act afraid.