[Gotham Dark Knight]

I remember the Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard fight...when Duran quit, saying "No Mas!...No Mas!"...

Can anyone think of a sports related quiting moment bigger than this?

[Trashed]

Another boxing one Goth. Mike Tyson's last "match" where he layed on the floor so because he suddenly decided it he didnt want to box as a career anymore! Boxing! Ha!

[MJHMarc]

I'm not really a boxing fan, but Ricky William's early retirement shocked many fans. It was not as legendary as the Duran and Tyson moment, my boxing fanatics. However, it was a shocker to everyone. Did it affect you in anyway?

[Trashed]

I was under the impression that he knew he couldnt pass the drug test so he played the Jim Brown/retire in his prime angle. It was phonier than a 3 dollar bill and everyone knew it so youre right, thats a good example of a quitter Marc.

[Sports Fan]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

I remember the Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard fight...when Duran quit, saying "No Mas!...No Mas!"...

Can anyone think of a sports related quiting moment bigger than this?

How about Sonny Liston going down from a punch that didn't even hit him thrown by no other, the then Cassius Clay?

[Trashed]

That one will be debated till the end of time. The A&E Muhammad Ali retrospective showed that "the phantom punch" actually landed on Listons neck and it did snap his head back. The punch landed but whether it was enough to leave Liston rolling around on the mat like a wounded tiger is doubtful. Maybe it hurt Liston just enough to know that he was about to get his carcass kicked again. Either way I say that was a quitter.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Trashed

That one will be debated till the end of time. The A&E Muhammad Ali retrospective showed that "the phantom punch" actually landed on Listons neck and it did snap his head back. The punch landed but whether it was enough to leave Liston rolling around on the mat like a wounded tiger is doubtful. Maybe it hurt Liston just enough to know that he was about to get his carcass kicked again. Either way I say that was a quitter.

I think Ali called it an "Anchor punch"...but even if Liston quit it was on a punch/phantom punch....Duran just threw up his hands and said "No mas!"...I mean come on now...you are a boxer with a super reputation and you flat out say no more?

[legend]

Scottie Pippen not going into the game for the last play against the Knicks in a playoff game the year the Bulls were without Jordan!

[Sports Fan]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

I think Ali called it an "Anchor punch"...but even if Liston quit it was on a punch/phantom punch....Duran just threw up his hands and said "No mas!"...I mean come on now...you are a boxer with a super reputation and you flat out say no more?

Roberto Duran was known as Hands of Stone after that fight they should have called him Head of Stone. I think that he was just frustrated by Sugar Ray's tactics. Oh yes !! Marvin Hagler did win that fight against Sugar Ray, I don't care what the judges said.

[Trashed]

Getting back to Liston/Ali II with the punch that "KOed" Sonny, one thing was said on Sonny's A&E biography. His wife still alive said that they never got a cent off any kind of payoff for dropping the fight to Ali. She said they were dirt poor and had trouble making ends meet. Weird, youd think if Sonny was told to lay down hed get some kind of compensation for it especially since Ali practically toured the country insulting him in every concievable way. Anyhow speaking of phantom punches what about Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson? Seldon was KOed on a World Wrestling Entertainment punch that never connected. It didnt look like it connected in full speed and slo-mo more than confirmed it. Years later Seldon would admit to a Don King payoff. Thats quitting! Ali's punch connected (it's effectiveness were debating) but Tyson's uppercut whizzed by Bruce Seldons face! Another black eye on the sport of boxing.

[ThePundit]

How about Gary Sheffield throwing the ball away on purpose so he could be traded from the Brewers?

[desertrat]

Randy Moss heading to the locker room with about a minute left to play in a game while still with the Vikings.