I am not going to hang up the gloves...I am going to burn them

I am not going to hang up the gloves...I am going to burn them

Miguel Cotto, talking retirement already. I'm with Scott on this one. I'm all for doing everything you can to keep from retiring with permanent brain damage, but all this retirement talk by fighters who are still in their prime is starting to get to me. Cotto's current contract expires at the end of 2011. (Original link in Spanish, Google translate version provided.)

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Maybe he meant something else...

Something against the direction of retirement, than actually retirement, if it has occurred to you. For all we know, he was just having a sarcastic response to a question about retirement or something…

But if he indeed means that, I agree that the early retirement talks are something that I don’t really like to hear (i.e. Pacquiao’s early retirement talks to go into politics)…

by Fj-3 on Aug 13, 2009 9:09 AM EDT reply actions

Something against the direction of retirement, than actually retirement, if it has occurred to you.

Actually, that’s exactly what occurred to me, and that seems to be the gist of the story. It’s a great quote “I am not going to hang up the gloves…I am going to burn them…” In other word’s no ridiculous Mayweather-style charade from this man. Once he is out, he’s out.

Sure we want to see the fighters we like hang around forever. That’s only natural. But then one day you wake up and see a 40 year-old Roy Jones dressed in a pirate suit.

"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb

by jrok on Aug 13, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

LOL

That is some funny shit…. :D

Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)

by Chaos100 on Aug 13, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions

It's a hard life.

But you have the rest of your existence to not box. Seems like you’d want to squeeze the fruit of every last drop in the meantime, short of doing permanent damage to yourself, of course.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Aug 13, 2009 1:29 PM EDT reply actions

This is a guy

That tasted 11 rounds of loaded gloves in a brawl. That takes alot out of a fighters career.

Gimme 1 round!

by ItBurnzWhenIP on Aug 15, 2009 4:19 AM EDT up reply actions

It’s tough to rewatch that fight knowing what Margartio has going on there, to be sure.

Although detractors decry (MMA) as a brutal, bloody form of human cockfighting, aficionados know it is a brutal, bloody, totally fucking awesome form of human cockfighting. -The Onion

by The Kittitas Kid on Aug 17, 2009 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Chumps!!!

Just the thought of retiring is a good move for Cotto for the simple fact that he will be decimated in November by Pac Man. At least he will have an excuse.

All actions and intentions are conceived in the mind First!!

by Haans Bishop on Aug 13, 2009 1:54 PM EDT reply actions