What excuses are legit and illegit for losing a fight ?

[thatguy17]

How about a broken hand???

Ward fought Froch with a broken hand, look how that turned out

[puga]

none...excuses are ****en lame....

[AntDawg]

How about getting a metal plate inserted into your skull just before signing for a fight??? actually happened to barrera.

Also sometimes a broken hand can be pretty legit.

Didn't Barrera win though?

[shadeyfizzle]

Ward fought Froch with a broken hand, look how that turned out

Irrelevant. There's countless examples of guys winning a fight with a broken hand. We're talking about losing.

If a fighter is clearly down on the cards he could use the broken hand to possibly turn the fight but he would be risking further damage and considerably shortening his career.

[shadeyfizzle]

Didn't Barrera win though?

It was prior to his 1st loss to pacquiao. I doubt the plate had anything to do with the actual loss but if there was ever a legit excuse for anyone else to use that one would be the winner.

[AntDawg]

It was prior to his 1st loss to pacquiao. I doubt the plate had anything to do with the actual loss but if there was ever a legit excuse for anyone else to use that one would be the winner.

I don't think it would. I believe the doctors said he was ok to fight and that was like years later when he fought Pacquiao lol.

[PD21]

I don't think it would. I believe the doctors said he was ok to fight and that was like years later when he fought Pacquiao lol.

The story leaked prior to the fight but the surgery happend years prior. The reason they said Barrera was so poor in that was because he didnt train due to forrest fires ( and he was up against a guy who went on to become great ) I still think that fight is Pacs best win to this day.

Maybe there was some truth in the big bear fires because Marco came to the ring fleshy and didnt fight well at all. When he was older and pretty washed up he cruised through 12 rounds with the "new and improved" Pac.

[Pactar∂]

i lost the fight because a mystery man was talking with the WBA supervisor ... who made an unofficial scorecard .... that had no effect on the outcome!!!!!
I WILL NEVER EVER FIGHT FOR IBF TITLE AGAIN ... because the corrupted crooks made a hearing ... yes a hearing... because we couldn't bribe them .... and we had no argument so we pulled out ... because we would have embarassed ourselves.

^^^^^^^
wins it for me

[TOBYLEE1]

A broken hand during the fight means you couldn't out last your opponent.

A clash of heads resulting in a cut dripping in your vision makes a good case.

If a fighter is not 100% going into the fight mentally or physically he shouldn't be fighting

The only time Ive seen that the Ref helped a fighter in trouble was in Coggi/Gonzalez fight. Even the time keeper was in it

[LeoReyes]

Illegitimate: Anything we have heard from Pacquiao, Khan or Haye.