Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua: There's Too Much Emphasis on Winning and Losing

[mawoodhouse]

He is right! Most likely Chisora has gotten into his head about the “too much emphasis on winning” , Chisora just fights and still entertains the fans, win or lose. Back in the day, boxers still kept their fans, win or lose….they wasn’t afraid to lose, they still went and fought everyone. It’s not like that these days, the fans tend to talk crap about them if they lose.

[Jimbo100]

Obviously there is an emphasis on winning or losing,it's boxing,2 fighters
one wins one loses its 50/50 not rocket science

[Brother Mouzone]

Nothing wrong with a loss. It is how you lose and what you look like when you come back.

99% of boxing fans did not get the message , its why many fights do not get made fighters scared to lose their 0.You see it all the time , right after a guy takes an L the X fighter is bum that was exposed thread gets made...

[Smash]

hes right, people rarely talk about draws

[-Kev-]

He’s not wrong. Most of the best upsets were done by boxers with losses.

If there’s 9 other good fighters, and you’re the 10th good fighter, you should face all 9. You shouldn’t face only 1 or 2 to determine how good you are. You can lose to 1 or 2 boxers and beat the other 8 or 7. That’s still a good resume.

[al-Xander]

There's too much emphasis on winning and losing.

It's true. Losing once, especially, is so horrible in this sport. Main reason why inactivity is so rampant in this sport. They all fear getting derailed.

[TyrantT316]

Yes he has definitely changed. He used to fight with a more imposing attitude, but now seems to feel the need to prove he's a "good skilled boxer". I remember when he first fought Usyk, he wanted to prove he could box with hm.

AJ is right that a loss should't necessarily mean a fight the public wanted SHOULDN'T happen. However, it seems pretty fair to assume that one of the fighters coming off a loss makes a big fight less appealing than if both fighters were on a hot streak, undefeated or at least coming off of a big-time comeback win.

I am more concerned about how concerned he was about Robert H at the weigh in. Apparently, AJ wanted Robert to not be serious about a fight and to be buddy-buddy. To me that seemed off like AJ needs everything to be a controled environment for him.

[Spray_resistant]

He's right, I just hope both boxers have fun!