IN YOUR September 7 issue Steve Bunce (as fine a boxing scribe as we have in this country) made a rare misstep.
In his otherwise excellent column, he claimed that MMA had a “tap-out and surrender plan, a button for quitting." Tapping out in MMA is no more a matter of quitting than being checkmated in chess is; you either tap to a submission or you wait until the referee stops the fight once you lose consciousness or sustain serious injury.
Buncey goes on to say that “we need more brave trainers to yank out stupidly brave boxers,"
