Dan Goossen is ecstatic about Josesito Lopez?s career-changing win against Victor Ortiz.
As much as he has enjoyed fight fans and boxing media praising his fighter since Saturday night, Lopez?s co-promoter still has some sympathy for the ostracized Ortiz (29-4-2, 22 KOs). The polarizing southpaw had a broken jaw and a mouthful of blood when he decided not to continue following the ninth round against Lopez (30-4, 18 KOs, 1 NC), but he has been lambasted because it marked the second time in three years the former welterweight champion ?quit? in a fight.
Based on the severity of Ortiz?s injury, which required the insertion of a titanium plate and three screws during surgery Monday, Goossen doesn?t think that?s necessarily fair.
?This is a cruel business,? Goossen said. ?In MMA, you tap out and you?re applauded. In boxing, you try to do it and you?re in the public?s scorn. There?s a different standard for professional fighters. It?s something that I think is unfair, but it?s just the way it is.
?It?s tough to go out there and fight with a broken jaw, although we?ve had great ones do it in the past, including Ali, when he fought Ken Norton. I also remember Arthur Abraham doing it against Edison Miranda. [Quitting is] certainly understandable, but in boxing no one likes to see anyone tap out.?
