As a cornerman, at what point do you throw in the towel? Is it after your fighter dislocates his shoulder? Is it after you put his shoulder back in between rounds, then it dislocates again? If you answered yes to either of those questions, you would have ripped the Commonwealth and British heavyweight titles from Danny Williams’ hands. Or just the one hand I guess, the other one wasn’t exactly working very well.

In October of 2000, in the sixth round of the fight between Danny Williams and Mark Potter, despite already fighting for 2 rounds with a dislocated shoulder and no use of his right arm, Williams continued to push on. Mark Potter smelled the blood in the water and threw several ferocious barrages at Williams, who couldn’t even lift his damaged arm to protect himself. Through the round, Potter continued to get the better of Williams, who refused to quit but just didn’t appear able enough to win the fight. Then with a few double jabs and some great footwork, Danny Williams turned the tide to set up an absolutely stunning left uppercut that sent Mark Potter to the mat. Potter had his brain scrambled with the punch but he too wasn’t ready to give in. Potter then plodded forward into a clinch that Danny Williams wanted no part of. Williams created space and since his right wasn’t an option, fired off a succession of left hooks. Potter fell to the mat again and it surely seemed to be over but he just wasn’t done yet. Despite stumbling to his feet another time and nearly falling forward, the referee decided to call the fight.

It was a pretty amazing display of guts and testicular fortitude. Who the hell continues a fight when he’s literally missing 50% of his weapons? The heavyweight boxing champ of the UK, that’s who!