By Allan Fox: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer believes that his fighter former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz (29-4-2, 22 KO’s) did the right thing by quitting after the 9th round against Josesito Lopez (30-4, 18 KO’s) last Saturday, because Ortiz’s broken jaw put him at a danger of bleeding out due to the bone of his broken jaw causing internal damage from Lopez’s blows.

Schaefer said to the USAtoday.com “And those who say well, Ali, it was different times, different circumstances. I talked to the ringside doctor after the fight, and he was telling me it was very severe, internal bleeding, and he said it’s very dangerous, that Victor could bleed out.”

Schaefer has a point. It obviously was dangerous for Ortiz to be fighting with a broken jaw, and it matters little whether fighters in the past have stuck it out and continued fighting. Ortiz wasn’t going to take that chance. However, Ortiz has quit in the past in his fight against Marcos Maidana in 2009 when he started to take punishment, and some boxing fans feel that Ortiz quit in his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. by head-butting him when things were looking bleak for Ortiz. The head-butting looked like a fighter who was desperate, and some boxing fans think Ortiz did that in order to be disqualified. In other words, to take the easy way out. Additionally, by Ortiz dropping his hands after the action had resumed, it gave some people the impression that he was quitting.

If Ortiz never has another episode like the Maidana, Mayweather, and Lopez fight, then you can agree with Schaefer that his fighter isn’t a quitter. But if we continue to see things that appear to be Ortiz quitting when he starts to get beat up in the ring, then it’s going to affirm the opinion in the minds of many boxing fans that Ortiz is a quitter. I think he’s going to have to tough it out in future fights to reverse the beliefs that people have about him.