Got to disagree with Chico and James. When your own recklessness gets you fucked, all a fighter can do is try to tough it out. He had to say "no mas" because he was out of gas. Had he been smart, he would still have his legs left by the eighth round.

Freitas was repeatedly trying to take advantage of a technicality in the rules to pull himself together. It's one thing to headbutt, shoulderbutt or even rabbit punch, but to do what he did really screws other boxers. After his pretty transparent abuse of the rule that requires a mouthpiece to be cleaned after being spit out, it might get to the point where simply losing your mouthpiece loses a boxer a point. That's something that's supposed to be in there to protect boxers, and it would suck if Freitas' jerk-off behavior started a trend.

He didn't just lose or quit, he did it in a totally low-class way.