The Monkey Look by F. X. Toole I stop blood. I stop it between rounds for fighters so they can stay in the fight.
Blood ruins some boys.
It was that way with Sonny Liston, God rest his soul. Bad as he was, he'd see his own blood and fall apart. I'm not the one who decides when to stop the fight, and I don't stitch up cuts once the fight's over. And it's not my job to hospitalize a boy for brain damage. My job is to stop blood so the fighter can see enough to keep on fighting.