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I see a lot of people on here calling Conor a quitter because he shot for a takedown on Nate instead of receiving the KO that was surely coming his way had he stood standing. But I think the majority of you saying this have never experienced extreme fatigue while being in a fight. It truly is one of the worst feelings you could have. And it becomes even worse when there are spectators who will criticize you if you make it known that your body can not go anymore.
When I was a stupid Junior in high school, me and a group of about 10 guys from my class started a fight club. once a month we would meet at this kids house and have the fights in his garage. I had two fights in total with the last being the worst. I fought a kid who was at least twenty pounds heavier than me and 3 inches taller. Like all the fights that took place, we came out guns blazing throwing wild haymakers that mostly missed. but as the fight progressed and we got tired we started to land on eachother which unfortunately caused a lot of blood to start flowing from a cut above my eye and a busted nose.
I had never been in a serious fight like that before and my body just ran out of steam at about 4 minutes in. No one had quit any fights so I didn't want to be the first despite the feeling that I was about to faint. I just fell to the ground hoping that the fight would end like all the other fights, with everyone watching collectively agreeing that someone was done. But that didn't happen. They let me take more shots than I could imagine. So I started screaming "I cant see, I cant see." and that's when the others called it off. It was 1 minute of panic, having no energy to do anything but get beat. Looking back at it now I would not call that quitting, I simply fought to exhaustion which is more than anyone should be expected to do. Its a terrible feeling because the body panics because it knows it is being attacked but has no energy to defend.
I could not imagine going through that in front of millions watching live and at home. It is just enough to say that Conor didn't quit. He simply fought until he could physically fight no more.
When I was a stupid Junior in high school, me and a group of about 10 guys from my class started a fight club. once a month we would meet at this kids house and have the fights in his garage. I had two fights in total with the last being the worst. I fought a kid who was at least twenty pounds heavier than me and 3 inches taller. Like all the fights that took place, we came out guns blazing throwing wild haymakers that mostly missed. but as the fight progressed and we got tired we started to land on eachother which unfortunately caused a lot of blood to start flowing from a cut above my eye and a busted nose.
I had never been in a serious fight like that before and my body just ran out of steam at about 4 minutes in. No one had quit any fights so I didn't want to be the first despite the feeling that I was about to faint. I just fell to the ground hoping that the fight would end like all the other fights, with everyone watching collectively agreeing that someone was done. But that didn't happen. They let me take more shots than I could imagine. So I started screaming "I cant see, I cant see." and that's when the others called it off. It was 1 minute of panic, having no energy to do anything but get beat. Looking back at it now I would not call that quitting, I simply fought to exhaustion which is more than anyone should be expected to do. Its a terrible feeling because the body panics because it knows it is being attacked but has no energy to defend.
I could not imagine going through that in front of millions watching live and at home. It is just enough to say that Conor didn't quit. He simply fought until he could physically fight no more.
