Great wins where there are no excuses that can be made for the loser...

[Hagler★]

Was drugged,

There is no excuse possible for Khan-Prescott.

khan could have been fasting as it was ramadan

[Silencers]

Barkley was robbed.

Damnit, good one.

[Guest]

For Pacquiao-Barrera, there was Barrera's distractions from the fire at training camp, marital problems, the media asking too many questions about his metal head. People often now say Barrera was past it, although very few people said that in 2003.

With Mosley-DLH I, people say "DLH fought a dumb fight". Bob Arum tried to claim that DLH was tired because he didn't train hard enough (I don't buy that, DLH was in great shape). I don't think Arum said it to downgrade Mosley, he was trying to say that DLH wasn't focused enough.


People, at least on boxing forums, will usually find something to bring up and downgrade a win.

I rarely pay attention to the excuses.

They played up that metal plate in Barrera's head pretty big.
In fact, if you wanna go back to Barerra-Morales 1 they had a built in excuse for Barrera even back then (he was past his prime).
Yes, they said it even back then...

[MELLY-MEL...]

bhop-tito. total domination of tito by bhop. not often you see such a one sided schooling between 2 elite guys.

[Silencers]

bhop-tito. total domination of tito by bhop. not often you see such a one sided schooling between 2 elite guys.

Too small, past prime, out of his weight class.

[theghost#1]

Pavlik/Jt
Calzaghe/Lacy
Oscar/Mosely

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Pavlik/Jt
Calzaghe/Lacy
Oscar/Mosely

Pavlik-Taylor - Weight drain, bad chemistry with trainer.
DLH-Mosley - That seafood thing that DLH said gave him stomach cramps, if it's true.

[Fox McCloud]

Pavlik-Taylor - Weight drain, bad chemistry with trainer.
DLH-Mosley - That seafood thing that DLH said gave him stomach cramps, if it's true.

If the stomach cramps were bad enough to actually **** up his performance, no way he stays for the interview... he runs to the back and takes care of that.

Really, I have a fairly ****ed up stomach, and there has never been a time that I have been so hurt by stomach cramps and I didn't need to take care of it, Andrew Lewis style.

[-Antonio-]

Excuse: If there ever was a lucky punch, this was it. Nunn got caught after winning the fight handily on the cards. In a rematch and with the right conditioning, Toney wouldn't lay a glove on Nunn.

I'm not even going to go into how bad the scoring typically is for this fight. I've seen more people see what I see lately, but there's still posters who see it like you do.

The punch itself wasn't lucky. Toney set it up with the right hands he was landing 8-10. It was like the Fraizer/Ali KD. He ****ed back with the right hand to open Nunn up, then let go of a perfect left hook.

[Burning Desire]

Sonny Liston vs Floyd Patterson
Julian Jackson vs Terry Norris