You guys who talk about mind games

[kayjay]

I know a few instances when the mind games actually worked:

Foreman vs Ali
Liston vs Ali
Mayorga vs Forrest
Hatton vs Mayweather

Sometimes the mind games backfired:

Frazier vs Ali I
Mayorga vs Spinks (even insulting Cory's dead mother couldn't get him to trade with Mayorga)
JCC vs Haugen
Hagler vs Minter

The jury is still out there for Calzaghe vs Hopkins & Mayweather vs Cotto.

This is all perception. Most likely myth

[sparked_85]

I do think mind games play a factor in sport.

Mainly sports management.

That said a grown man should not be intimated or ****ed up by what another says, it's ****ing unlikely. It's a sport at the end of the day. Won and lost in the ring.

Mind games are important, they make press conferences interesting. In the case of JC and Hops it sells what most of us know will be a shocker of a fight.

[My Name Is...]

I Was Just Playnig I Didnt Mean The E Thug Stuff

[BrooklynBomber]

Mind games? Un-bloody-likely

[Oasis_Lad]

I Was Just Playnig I Didnt Mean The E Thug Stuff

Shut your pie hole, ****.

[2501]

did someone say mime games?

[TheGreatA]

This is all perception. Most likely myth

Foreman himself admits that Ali made him want to kill and Foreman lost all of his composure inside the ring, throwing wild punches that weren't doing much damage and ended up tiring himself out in the heat.

Liston thought Ali was just some crazy kid he would KO in a few rounds. He didn't train and quit during the fight when it turned out that the fight wasn't as easy as he thought it would be.


Mayorga vs Forrest.

Hatton convinced himself that he couldn't be hurt by a punch and that he could walk through Floyd's power easily.
Hatton came out like a wild bull, didn't use any head movement or defense in the fight and he ended up getting knocked out. I'm sure Hatton could've went the distance if he had kept his composure in the ring.

Frazier came in more motivated than ever to shut Ali up, trained like he had never trained before and set up a pace that Ali couldn't match.

The racist talk of Haugen and Minter only motivated Chavez and Hagler more and the results were devastating.

There are obviously other factors to why these fights turned out like they did for example Foreman and Liston both thinking they were invincible, Hatton being deducted a point and Haugen & Minter simply not being in the same class as their opponents.