Why is it that in boxing, after a boxer loses, he's done?

['Sugar' Freddi]

I don't eally understand this. I was watching "The Hour" on YouTube and Dana White and George Stroumboulopoulos were actually saying this.

Here watch it for yourself:


I think that's one of the things that really kills boxing. The fans are so retarted going around saying "Oh he's done as a fighter after that loss." Perfect example, Margarito losing to Mosley and now he's finished as a fighter. I think the boxing fans kill boxing.

[Ivansmamma]

That's not how it is. If a hyped up boxer that got a decent record from padding it with nobodys loses he is done but that's only because he weren't that good in the first place and was just hype. An example of this is Lacy. If you are a good fighter and you lose you can come back from the loss.

[jtiger78]

yeah i feel u but after a fighter gets his button pushed hes never the same fighter... the whole undefeated thing is taken waaaaaaay to far nowadays though seriously

[Rabbit ♠]

It's not so much losses but bad KO/TKO losses. Your chin gets cracked. There's been very few success stories of boxers coming back and being just as good after a KO/TKO loss.

In MMA when your chin is cracked you have the option to take the fight to the ground. Take GSP for example. He suffered a TKO loss to Matt Serra and since then has taking a different approach to his opponents. Same as Rashad Evans. Evans suffered a KO loss to Lyoto Machida and in his next fight with Thiago Silva he was more cautious (and was still rocked btw) and was very cautious with Rampage Jackson by deciding to use a tactic called wall n stall.

In boxing you don't really have this option. It's a standup game and once you've been KO'd (especially headshots), you're never the same. Even Freddie Roach pointed this out prior to the Cotto fight. He was confident in a Pac KO because he admitted Cotto wasn't the same since getting KO'd and Roach said that he himself was never the same after Roach was KO'd.

[Deep Blue 1997]

I don't eally understand this. I was watching "The Hour" on YouTube and Dana White and George Stroumboulopoulos were actually saying this.

Here watch it for yourself:


I think that's one of the things that really kills boxing. The fans are so retarted going around saying "Oh he's done as a fighter after that loss." Perfect example, Margarito losing to Mosley and now he's finished as a fighter. I think the boxing fans kill boxing.

Margarito didn't look very impressive in his last outing though.

no need to say "they are done", but he needs to show that he is worthy of a fight against top notch opponents.

[Carpe Diem]

You only hear that on NSB, YouTube, ect...