Bigger quits? Can you think of any?

[FinitoxDinamita]

Kostya tszyu is a hoe

[Earl-Hickey]

delahoya - pacquiao.
devon alexander.
andrew golota

Oscar vs Pacquiao wasn't a bad quit imo. He was weight drained, just couldn't compete and was getting bashed up round after round. No point to continue.

I've seen WAY worse. Like when the dude could still have a chance to win or is at least competitive.

[Earl-Hickey]

Lewis vs Akinwande.

Akinwande held to death until he was DQed

Golota vs Tyson. Golota after the bout in his home country he had to be taken to the hospital because a vertebrae fracture and suffered some neuro damage. I thought that he quit because he was such a mental case but he actually got a lot of damage

Golota another case of not a bad quit. He had a serious injury.

Tyson holyfield 2 was a worse quit by tyson.

[Guest]

Edit; didn't expect this thread to be going a month later. It was in reference to Nicholas Walters.

I'm sure there's some but I'm at a loss to think of them off the top of my head.

Not legit injuries. I'm talking about someone who hasn't taken any real damage, isn't gasping for breath, isn't significantly slowing, hurt, or injured.

Who else has just said, "Hey bro, I gotta head out now" because he was losing?

What about quits when they're WINNING?

Sure, you can talk about both Golotas, but I saw a Ricky Burns bout against Jose Gonzalez, did you see that one?

I've never seen anything like it... Gonzalez lands at will, schools him and basically bashes him up for seven rounds. Ricky hangs tough and takes his beating, and Gonzalez seems to gas after seven rounds of knocking the **** out of Burns.

Burns ISTR claws back the next two rounds as Gonzalez is gassed and disheartened, then he amazingly quits on his stool and refuses to come out for the tenth, saying he has a broken left hand.

As it was in the UK, I think the scores were probably closer than they should have been, particularly with a Burns fight, but the guy HAD to think he must have been up at least five rounds. Even if he'd lost the last three, he'd have still been a "world" champ, with the WBO belt.

ISTR if he'd lost the last three rounds (which looked likely) it would have actually made it a draw on the judge's cards, but he didn't KNOW that.

[Kigali]

Vitali vs Byrd

Chavez vs Randall II

Chavez vs De La Hoya

[daggum]

What about quits when they're WINNING?

Sure, you can talk about both Golotas, but I saw a Ricky Burns bout against Jose Gonzalez, did you see that one?

I've never seen anything like it... Gonzalez lands at will, schools him and basically bashes him up for seven rounds. Ricky hangs tough and takes his beating, and Gonzalez seems to gas after seven rounds of knocking the **** out of Burns.

Burns ISTR claws back the next two rounds as Gonzalez is gassed and disheartened, then he amazingly quits on his stool and refuses to come out for the tenth, saying he has a broken left hand.

As it was in the UK, I think the scores were probably closer than they should have been, particularly with a Burns fight, but the guy HAD to think he must have been up at least five rounds. Even if he'd lost the last three, he'd have still been a "world" champ, with the WBO belt.

ISTR if he'd lost the last three rounds (which looked likely) it would have actually made it a draw on the judge's cards, but he didn't KNOW that.

winning is overrated. quitting is underrated

[Redd Foxx]

What about quits when they're WINNING?

Sure, you can talk about both Golotas, but I saw a Ricky Burns bout against Jose Gonzalez, did you see that one?

I've never seen anything like it... Gonzalez lands at will, schools him and basically bashes him up for seven rounds. Ricky hangs tough and takes his beating, and Gonzalez seems to gas after seven rounds of knocking the **** out of Burns.

Burns ISTR claws back the next two rounds as Gonzalez is gassed and disheartened, then he amazingly quits on his stool and refuses to come out for the tenth, saying he has a broken left hand.

As it was in the UK, I think the scores were probably closer than they should have been, particularly with a Burns fight, but the guy HAD to think he must have been up at least five rounds. Even if he'd lost the last three, he'd have still been a "world" champ, with the WBO belt.

ISTR if he'd lost the last three rounds (which looked likely) it would have actually made it a draw on the judge's cards, but he didn't KNOW that.

I don't recall seeing that one but, wow, that sounds incredible. I'll have to look it up to see his face during that one. Amazes me how people can have such different natures, that some will quit over a broken hand, others will not relent until you separate them from consciousness.

[Guest]

I don't recall seeing that one but, wow, that sounds incredible. I'll have to look it up to see his face during that one. Amazes me how people can have such different natures, that some will quit over a broken hand, others will not relent until you separate them from consciousness.

The thing was, ISTR it wasn't even CLOSE. At times he was hitting Burns at will.

Burns gets ragged on for being limited, but to be fair to him, he's a tough cookie. The guy got bashed up continually, and it basically broke the opponent's heart. His body language pretty much said "I'm exhausted beating the Hell out of this guy."

I think it was Ricky's clever plan... to defeat the opponent by hitting his fists with his chin.

[Tom Cruise]

The thing was, ISTR it wasn't even CLOSE. At times he was hitting Burns at will.

Burns gets ragged on for being limited, but to be fair to him, he's a tough cookie. The guy got bashed up continually, and it basically broke the opponent's heart. His body language pretty much said "I'm exhausted beating the Hell out of this guy."

I think it was Ricky's clever plan... to defeat the opponent by hitting his fists with his chin.

The Homer Simpson game plan

Never heard of that Gonzales fella again. Very strange situation

Edit: Just looked up his boxrec. After the Burns loss, he ko'd two overmatched opponents before losing by TKO to Diego Magdeleno. The description under the fight on boxrec: "Gonzalez refuses to continue after an accidental low blow"

[Elroy The Great]

obviously the biggest quit ever.....''no mas''

next up is tyson and the ear bite fight. he wanted to quit without quitting. deplorable.
frietas quit vs chico and had the nerve to be carried around the ring afterwards.
walter....smdh !!!!!
chavez jr ''hes too big for me.....''


i DONT include ''kneeguel'' cotto. he was busted up and gave all he could.
i also DONT include QUvit vs byrd. if a guy is injured, hes injured (QUvit was winning iirc)