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Excuses, Predictions, Expectations, Disappointments...
In the case of DLH-Pacquiao fight, DLH never made an excuse about his defeat. Now that's a great fighter... acknowledging his opponent's hard work and training before their fight. I liked his statement "I did this to myself." Which is true in boxing, if you trained hard as you thought you did and find yourself lacking in-front of your opponent come fight time, the only excuse for a defeated boxer is that the victor trained much harder than him. If you knew you're dehydrated, old, slow, incapable of a win... would you go on with a fight?
Of course DLH thought he could beat Pacquiao. And other boxers who is chasing after Pacquiao. I remember the fight between Oscar Larios and Manny Pacquiao, I watched how Larios trained before the fight, how he ran 2hrs each day, how he strengthens his jaws, his punches. Larios trained as hard as Pacquiao did. And then came fight time... Larios did not run out of gas, he fought Paquiao like a true warrior. Although he got knocked down he always manages to get up like JMM did. Larios managed to last 12 grueling rounds against Pacman, he almost got Pacquiao knocked down on the 3rd round as he pummeled Pac's jaw 3 or 4 times. Larios almost beat Pacquiao, only if there's something more to give in training. And at that time Pacquiao was still considered a one dimensional fighter.
I liked boxing not only because of what I see during the fight... I liked it better when I see fighters prepare for the fight and giving their best to give all they got come fight time.
Who knew DLH would lose to a little man? Who would have predicted Holyfield's win against a primed Tyson twice? And an unknown last minute replacement named Manny Pacquiao to challenge a crowd favorite champ Lehlo Ledwaba and end up with a shocking upset as Pacquiao knocked the champ out? Not even I would have thought that Pacquiao would beat the legendary Marco Antonio Barerra... beating him literally and making his corner jump in to tearfully rescue a battered champion.
Now here we are... All boxing experts making predictions, all fight analyst making excuses to our defeated favorites. Unfortunately we often raise expectations on who beats who and only leave us swallowing what we said.
Fighters don't disappoint us, WE disappoint ourselves.
In the case of DLH-Pacquiao fight, DLH never made an excuse about his defeat. Now that's a great fighter... acknowledging his opponent's hard work and training before their fight. I liked his statement "I did this to myself." Which is true in boxing, if you trained hard as you thought you did and find yourself lacking in-front of your opponent come fight time, the only excuse for a defeated boxer is that the victor trained much harder than him. If you knew you're dehydrated, old, slow, incapable of a win... would you go on with a fight?
Of course DLH thought he could beat Pacquiao. And other boxers who is chasing after Pacquiao. I remember the fight between Oscar Larios and Manny Pacquiao, I watched how Larios trained before the fight, how he ran 2hrs each day, how he strengthens his jaws, his punches. Larios trained as hard as Pacquiao did. And then came fight time... Larios did not run out of gas, he fought Paquiao like a true warrior. Although he got knocked down he always manages to get up like JMM did. Larios managed to last 12 grueling rounds against Pacman, he almost got Pacquiao knocked down on the 3rd round as he pummeled Pac's jaw 3 or 4 times. Larios almost beat Pacquiao, only if there's something more to give in training. And at that time Pacquiao was still considered a one dimensional fighter.
I liked boxing not only because of what I see during the fight... I liked it better when I see fighters prepare for the fight and giving their best to give all they got come fight time.
Who knew DLH would lose to a little man? Who would have predicted Holyfield's win against a primed Tyson twice? And an unknown last minute replacement named Manny Pacquiao to challenge a crowd favorite champ Lehlo Ledwaba and end up with a shocking upset as Pacquiao knocked the champ out? Not even I would have thought that Pacquiao would beat the legendary Marco Antonio Barerra... beating him literally and making his corner jump in to tearfully rescue a battered champion.
Now here we are... All boxing experts making predictions, all fight analyst making excuses to our defeated favorites. Unfortunately we often raise expectations on who beats who and only leave us swallowing what we said.
Fighters don't disappoint us, WE disappoint ourselves.
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