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The options are:
"He was past his prime":
This has got to be a big one. People discredit Cotto, Mayweather, etc for beating a person past their prime. However, that person past his prime can still be damn good. I think Oscar/Shane/Tszyu were all very good even though they were past their best when they lost to Mayweather/Cotto/Hatton.
Option #2: "He was weight drained"
This one isn't that generally annoying as some cases are somewhat true. People like Jones who had to lose a bunch of muscle to get down in weight was tough. However people like Tarver and Miranda blame their losses on that is pretty sad. Tarver wasn't weight drained because he didn't lose all muscle. I think Miranda was looking for somehting else.
Option #3: "He was too small/blown up"
This gets my vote by far. I hate this excuse so much. Whenever a fighter jumps up in weightclasses it's pinned on the other fighter. Ricky Hatton, Felix Trinidad, Winky Wright, Cory Spinks, etc were all too small. Bull****. Especially certain cases like Trinidad, Hatton, and Wright.
Boxers have 8 weeks (or more) during camp to get used to the weight and they agreed to fight. It's not the other fighters fault that he takes the fight anyway because they want to fight.
I'd much rather see Floyd Mayweather vs Ricky Hatton then say Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto (who's now the WBC ranked mandatory). To say that the smaller man getting beat doesn't count as a good defense (especially if that person is really good) is pretty pathetic.
If not then why was Duran able to beat Lenoard, when he was the smaller man. Basillo beat Robinson when he was moving up from 147 pounds (who weighed 153 on the night of that fight while Robinson weighed 160. That's a 7 pound difference and yet he still pulled it off.) People forget that the fighters fighting a fighter moving up from a different weight class is still a great fighter.
If you lose, you lose and 97% of the time it doesn't have an excuse.
edit: Before anyone jumps the gun and says "You just did this because your a fan of Hopkins and Mayweather and don't accept the truth!!" The fighter examples are the first that came to mind.
The options are:
"He was past his prime":
This has got to be a big one. People discredit Cotto, Mayweather, etc for beating a person past their prime. However, that person past his prime can still be damn good. I think Oscar/Shane/Tszyu were all very good even though they were past their best when they lost to Mayweather/Cotto/Hatton.
Option #2: "He was weight drained"
This one isn't that generally annoying as some cases are somewhat true. People like Jones who had to lose a bunch of muscle to get down in weight was tough. However people like Tarver and Miranda blame their losses on that is pretty sad. Tarver wasn't weight drained because he didn't lose all muscle. I think Miranda was looking for somehting else.
Option #3: "He was too small/blown up"
This gets my vote by far. I hate this excuse so much. Whenever a fighter jumps up in weightclasses it's pinned on the other fighter. Ricky Hatton, Felix Trinidad, Winky Wright, Cory Spinks, etc were all too small. Bull****. Especially certain cases like Trinidad, Hatton, and Wright.
Boxers have 8 weeks (or more) during camp to get used to the weight and they agreed to fight. It's not the other fighters fault that he takes the fight anyway because they want to fight.
I'd much rather see Floyd Mayweather vs Ricky Hatton then say Floyd Mayweather vs Andre Berto (who's now the WBC ranked mandatory). To say that the smaller man getting beat doesn't count as a good defense (especially if that person is really good) is pretty pathetic.
If not then why was Duran able to beat Lenoard, when he was the smaller man. Basillo beat Robinson when he was moving up from 147 pounds (who weighed 153 on the night of that fight while Robinson weighed 160. That's a 7 pound difference and yet he still pulled it off.) People forget that the fighters fighting a fighter moving up from a different weight class is still a great fighter.
If you lose, you lose and 97% of the time it doesn't have an excuse.
edit: Before anyone jumps the gun and says "You just did this because your a fan of Hopkins and Mayweather and don't accept the truth!!" The fighter examples are the first that came to mind.
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