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

[juancho]

pac: wrong socks

briggs: pneumonia and 1 week of training

wat fight was that?I forgot

[SkillspayBills]

Poisoned. My goodness who actually would believe some bull**** like that.

[Run]

Toney complaining and trying to sue Rahman for the rabbit blows was sad.



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[beez721]

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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.

every one of shannon brigg's excuses after everysingle loss,,,lol. that guy is a joke

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

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

Tyson's "broken back" was funny but it wasn't an excuse. It was after he KO'd Etienne in less than minute.

There were rumors about Tyson pulling out due to the flu or whatnot, people weren't even sure if the fight would take place, so Gray asked him what the deal was.

Mike: I broke my back. My back is broken.

Gray: What part?

Mike: Spinal.

wat fight was that?I forgot

The first bout with Marquez.

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Not only did Foreman claim he was drugged against Ali (re-iterating the claim many years later after saying that he finally accepted the L), but in his autobiography "By George", he actually claims that he was about to knock out Ali but he saw his friend in the audience rooting for Ali and it ruined his concentration and hurt his feelings to see a friend betray him like that.

[rebmogul]

(see options and vote)

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.

how about?
"it was suspect judging and i'm calling my lawyers to launch an investigation".

that is hands down the most ***** ass excuse ever uttered by a fighter...

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how about?
"it was suspect judging and i'm calling my lawyers to launch an investigation".

that is hands down the most ***** ass excuse ever uttered by a fighter...

maybe there should have been an investigation into oscar's fight with sturm, or how he won those fights against whitaker and quartey by such wide margins, or how about some of the fights he's promoted?

barrera-marquez, didn't one judge give marquez 10 rounds?
casamayor-santa cruz
d. hopkins-forbes

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"He wasn't a real whiteboy, he's mostly Italian" B. Hopkins c. 2008

[GoodBoxfella]

The British excuse: It's the referee's fault.