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What I dont get is why does a boxer get flack for quitting?
If your losing and you know it or are in serious danger,why cant you quit gracefully. In MMA,we can tapout without being labled a quitter.The safety of the fighters is important. We risk broken limbs and permanent injury,every single time we fight. Brazillian jujitsu legend,Mario Sperry once said "Its better to be a dog and live to fight another day,than to be a lion and fight no more."


A similar quote comes from Ernest Shackleton during his 1907 Antarctic expedition. He turned back 97 miles from the pole for the sole reason that going further would have killed them all.

Writing to his wife: "I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion."

In the context of the time & place it took much more courage to turn back than to have undertaken the attempt in the first place.
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