What's the most annoying exucse when a fighter loses?

[HotSizzle]

Any excuse is annoying period.

[The Hammer]

It's annoying when a TV commentator makes excuses for a boxer: Lennox Lewis "Miranda was weight-drained..." because that's discrediting Pavlik's win...

[flipside]

pac: wrong socks

briggs: pneumonia and 1 week of training

[Xyei]

Yeah me too. I love it though when a fighter completely takes the 12th round off in a very close fight and then storms out of the ring not even giving an interview in a fight he thought he won and was robbed.

I remember that. I was pissed that he just ran off like that. He had to know it was a close fight.

Then he said he didn't want a rematch....??? Jermain would give him one, he didn't take the offer.

I like WW but that pissed me off and made me lose a little respect.

After he fought Hopkins I liked his attitude. He obviously thought he won, but he wasn't bitching or anything. He showed a lot more class.

[Thread Stealer]

"I beat Lennox Lewis"- Vitali Klitschko
"I came down too quick from my caffeine high"- Vinny Pazienza
"They poisoned the steaks"- Antonio Tarver
"Witter was drugged up"- Vivian Harris
"They put stuff on the gloves"- Chris Byrd

[Derranged]

pac: wrong socks

briggs: pneumonia and 1 week of training

Briggs also said his back was hurt against McCline and he had ashtma against Wilson. Cant remember if he made any excuses for losing to Lennox....

[HeysusChristus]

Briggs also said his back was hurt against McCline and he had ashtma against Wilson. Cant remember if he made any excuses for losing to Lennox....

Briggs had tremendous respect for Lewis after that fight. He took it too Big Len for 5 rounds and came off 2nd best, he took that defeat like a man.

[Derranged]

Briggs had tremendous respect for Lewis after that fight. He took it too Big Len for 5 rounds and came off 2nd best, he took that defeat like a man.

Oh, I didnt know that.

[oovavu]

Tysons "broken back" but that was funny more than anything

Harris claiming Witters camp poisoned him was a good un aswell.

[Njord777]

I feel like boxing is the most mental sport on the planet. There's so much psychology involved when, rather than a team exercise, you have two men that have to stare each other in the eye and fight. It's a battle of will, aggression, pride, fear - it's a mind game almost as much as it's physical.

I bring that up because I feel like that's where 90% of the excuses stem from; the psychological need to remove responsibility of a loss from lack of skill. Most boxers would become crushed if they admitted the man that beat them is simply superior. Even those that come close usually go with, "He was the better man tonight.." Or "He simply executed better."

As a random example look at some of the men a superb athlete like Roy Jones Jr. or Floyd Mayweather fought. Can anyone argue that Gatti got his ass whooped for any other reason than Floyd is in another league? Boxers can't always let themselves admit they met someone who is better than them, though.

So instead of the truth, "He's too strong for me.." or "His boxing intelligence is higher than mine and he figured me out..", we don't get, "I'm not fast enough," or "Damn, he whooped my ass.." instead we hear, "Nothing he did surprised me," and "No, he didn't hit that hard," followed with, "I just had an off night" even when we know that boxer would have lost on ANY night.

So we get goofy excuses ranging from poisoning, to sickness, to someone using a substance on their glove. Even when they admit fault its usually in the sense that they were just sick, or weight drained- not that it was their skills.

Point: I usually just chalk up the excuses to the mental aspect of the sport and don't let it annoy me much either way. Sure, I might laugh at them or make a mental note that they can't be honest with themselves, but I don't usually end up disliking someone for playing head games with them self.