Duran gets it bad, I guess because it was such a high profile fight.
But out of the thousands of matches, I’m a bit stumped. Regardless of cherry picking and mismatches, I am hard pressed to name fighters that flat out quit.
Only one comes to mind is Erik Morales Manny Pacquiao III.
El Terrible sat on his bum, winced, no pain, just flat out quit. Is quitting a rare occurrence, or am I drawing a blank?
Victor Ortiz quit several times when he didn’t appear to be seriously hurt if I remember rightly
All time greatest quitters:
Carlos Navarro counting along with the ref vs Bobby Pacquiao was one from bizarro world.
Bobby Czyz had a few.
Kennedy McKinney looked like he quit right before he decided not to vs Ncita.
Yori Boy Campas had a run of finding the stool comfortable 5 or 6 times.
Mike Tyson. He quit
Chavez sr. He quit also.
Robert Allen tried to fake coma in rematch with Hopkins. Guys quit standing up and laying down.
Vitali had a serious injury when he was forced to retire and Spinks was knocked out cold.
The others are good examples. Cotto had to quit against Margarito because the punches he was taking were unnatural.
Ali should have quit when got his jaw broken.
I quit watching Tyson Fury vs. Wladimir Klitschko after a couple of rounds.
ant say ive lasted the distance through any of wlad klits fights
Most fighters quit.
Humans have a genetic predisposition to avoid serious damage, hence the ‘fight or flight’ mechanism that is inbuilt into us all. Notice that there is an ‘or’ in there!
Some will stop throwing punches when they are under pressure in a subconscious effort to get the ref to step in. Some will narrowly fail to beat the ten count and then make it look as if they just miscounted. Some will take a split second too long to respond to the ref after a knockdown. Some even belive they didn’t quit, but they did.
There is no shame in that.
The really psychotically brave fighters are in a glorious minority.
Totally forgot Ortiz quitting against Maidana.
Freitas…yeah he went out in a sorrowful manner.
Oliver McCall…nervous breakdown…doesnt count.
If you can find shobox Anthony Peterson vs Jermain White…lopsided doozy. I think Jermain stated to his corner. .“man I’m through”
Corner “c’mon one more round”
Jermain"Naw .. I’m done!"
Thought of another one. Bert Cooper got up against Moorer, but the ref saw he didn’t want no more.
Some fighters really do go out on their shield.
Others quit.
I give Cooper a pass on that war. Bert was a walking contradiction over career full of self sabotage. Fantastic run for couple of years sandwiched by flat out quits and back turns on a half dozen occasions. Crack is whack!
Tyson bit when he quit
Buster was not fit
Golota was a dick
Spinks got hit and
Duran needed a shit
:appl:
Take a bow for that post!
Hammer was 2 legit to quit. 
yeah turned his back, then came back to score a superb knockout. turning his back could have easily signalled the end with a different ref
Everyone has quit in them. Some show it earlier than others.
Yeah those fighters who are in a fight and you can tell they don’t want to be there. Mostly when they’re past it
Benn v Collins springs to mind and Haye in his second fight against Bellew - he certainly didn’t quit in the first when injured.
Yep just a sensational fight and turn around. McKinney had the two’fer in that the back turn alone would have been the hook with a less experienced or panicky ref but then he took the knee. Just a ton of what-if scenarios and we don’t see that a lot at all and always thought Smoger was one of the very best level refs of our time.