Will extend it to maybe fighters who have retired in the past 5 years. Anymore and the list would go crazy. mikkel Kessler Paulie (forcibly pulled against Hatton and fought 9 rounds with a broken jaw against cotto) Eubank jnr (gets slagged but he is a tough mofo)
an earlier poster made a valid point about the guilty or not guilty regarding hand wraps. If you knew you had concrete in your gloves it’s gonna inflate your confidence 10 fold I have personally had the displeasure of meeting brother Nazeem and he is crazy. Would not surprise me if he is lying
You don't know CJ huh? He's going to go on about Naazim lying, corruption, blocks falling out the gloves, Mosley was on drugs, his personal friend Margarito was innocent, and he might bring up Floyd being scared too.. It's a copy and paste job when it comes to Margarito and CJ...lol
Yeah, absolutely. Can't imagine him quitting in the fight whether he is deadly tired, or battered and badly hurt, or outclassed completely (like Chisaora was against Fury in the fight where he quit) Also, Povetkin never quit. As for the former fightes, people underestimate Wladimir Klitschko's heart. He never ever quit in the ring, always got up from knockdowns and wanted to fight on. People probably don't give him well deserved credit in this part because he fought catiuosly. But he never quit
Still, Margarito took some hellacious beatings. And we know for a fact that he didn´t have tampered hand wraps against Mosley and Manny. If there ever was a fight that someone could have rightfully quit in, it was Margarito against Manny. That was just a brutal affair. Magarito had his moments, but after the 8th round it was all Manny. In the 10th, even light jabs from Manny were pushing Margarito backwards and off balance. In those later rounds, every solid punch Manny landed, made Margarito stumble a bit. Ridiculous courage.
Any fighter conscious and intelligent enough to realize that in certain situations there's more chance of suffering permanent brain damage than actually pulling off a miracle comeback and decides to live to fight another day has my respect. Unfortunately far too many suffer post-career for not being able to quit when it was necessary.
I agree with BigBone You can tell the guys who "never quit" because in their 40s they are more likely to be punch drunk and incoherent. When we value stupid things in boxing we reinforce stupid results.
At the risk of turning this thread too grim...you could say anyone who died or was severely injured in the ring that didn't call it off themselves
