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It raised eyebrows when Peter Quillin turned down a title fight that would have paid him a career-high amount of money for an eminently winnable fight against Matt Korobov. For that decision and for being managed by Al Haymon, Quillin is despised by a small but vocal group of fans. Like any professional athlete, Quillin has no shortage of “advisers” who are more than willing to tell him what he should do even if their own lives may be in tatters.