Why do some boxers refuse to admit when they were hurt?

[-Kev-]

I know there's pride, but why lie about something that was seen by either a live audience, viewers on tv, or just people watching it on youtube?

Like 100s of thousands or millions of people saw you get hurt and you lie about it when it was very visible.

I'm not talking about a particular boxer, just boxers in general. Clearly getting wobbled/apparently losing their legs and then in post-fight interviews say they weren't hurt.

There are many boxers who admit to being hurt after a fight, but some boxers just look ****** denying something that can obviously be seen and by everyone else's account, the boxer got hurt. I guess if your trainer and mom tell you that you weren't hurt that's all you need to hear to convince yourself you actually weren't hurt.

I just find it funny when some boxers do this, like just lying to fans/reporters faces about what happened in a fight when we all have eyes to see what happened.

[TheMyspaceDayz]

Some people just believe if you say things enough times then it will come true. Like Fury cheated or Floyd is TBE.

[LoadedWraps]

Sometimes you don't feel hurt and to a man, that's why counts in the fight. If you were out on your feet, you probably don't know it.

It's mostly pride yes.

Adrenaline will also numb the pain so you sometimes don't know you're bleeding right away.

There's also the factor of, a punch may physically move / shake you because of physics, but you aren't "hurt" in a sense of, in bad pain or about to be put to sleep.for example a well placed, educated jab may snap someone's head back but the fighter might not even feel the sting of the jab as pain because they are jacked on adrenaline, have taken many jabs before, and are juiced they are in a fight. Is the fighter "hurt"? No, but you still see the head snap back, sweat, maybe a drop of blood fly into the front row.

One thing that bothers me is when a ref waved it off because guy isn't throwing back, it doesn't always mean he is in trouble. I personally enjoy resting my arms and just rolling and kind of "throwing" a round if I need to, I shouldn't be forced to return fire in every exchange if I want to roll off his combination, pivot out and reset. Let me play my mental game without outside pressure to maintain activity. I know I may lose the round, it's a marathon not a sprint.

[DoktorSleepless]

Maybe they just genuinely don't remember.

[Get em up]

Sometimes you don't feel hurt and to a man, that's why counts in the fight. If you were out on your feet, you probably don't know it.

It's mostly pride yes.

Adrenaline will also numb the pain so you sometimes don't know you're bleeding right away.

There's also the factor of, a punch may physically move / shake you because of physics, but you aren't "hurt" in a sense of, in bad pain or about to be put to sleep.for example a well placed, educated jab may snap someone's head back but the fighter might not even feel the sting of the jab as pain because they are jacked on adrenaline, have taken many jabs before, and are juiced they are in a fight. Is the fighter "hurt"? No, but you still see the head snap back, sweat, maybe a drop of blood fly into the front row.

One thing that bothers me is when a ref waved it off because guy isn't throwing back, it doesn't always mean he is in trouble. I personally enjoy resting my arms and just rolling and kind of "throwing" a round if I need to, I shouldn't be forced to return fire in every exchange if I want to roll off his combination, pivot out and reset. Let me play my mental game without outside pressure to maintain activity. I know I may lose the round, it's a marathon not a sprint.

Green k sent for the last sentence well said brother

[Tails]

It is not necessarily a pride thing but rather a refusal to admit. You can have pride and admit a shot buzzed you or you were wobbled.

I boxed for a fairly long time and trust me even when you factor in adrenaline you know when you are caught by a good shot. It doesn't physically hurt in an unbearable way but there is a pain/pressure inside your head that you feel. You have your poker face on but at the same time you are thinking oh ****. It feels noticeably different then when you are getting tagged with shots that don't have much behind them.

[MasterPlan]

Even when common folk get into fights, they don't want to admit they're hurt or that they lost.
Of course a professional boxer won't want to admit the same thing.

[Get em up]

It is not necessarily a pride thing but rather a refusal to admit. You can have pride and admit a shot buzzed you or you were wobbled.

I boxed for a fairly long time and trust me even when you factor in adrenaline you know when you are caught by a good shot. It doesn't physically hurt in an unbearable way but there is a pain/pressure inside your head that you feel. You have your poker face on but at the same time you are thinking oh ****. It feels noticeably different then when you are getting tagged with shots that don't have much behind them.

I remember being cause GB ht with a textbook 1-2 and thinking to myself OH **** fire back and for pretty much the remainder of the round was dazed. The thing is when I watched it back on video I looked composed and in control so looks are deceiving in some cases.

[hugh grant]

I suppose boxers learn to be poker face and not show hurt. And if they admit they were hurt future opponents won't be fooled by your poker face

[-Kev-]

I remember being cause GB ht with a textbook 1-2 and thinking to myself OH **** fire back and for pretty much the remainder of the round was dazed. The thing is when I watched it back on video I looked composed and in control so looks are deceiving in some cases.

I boxed for 8 years but just sparring. I was once hit by a shot so hard, my ear rang for a week. Looking at the footage (it was recorded), the punch didn't look like it hurt me, I stayed the same. But I remember the punch and realized it hurt me immediately. The guy actually knocked me down twice (technical knock downs where my glove touched the canvas - similar to Mayweather-Judah) and those two knock downs didn't hurt me. The punch no one knows hurt me was the one that hurt me.

Although even the two KD's, which were my only two KD's ever in my 8 years of sparring, I did admit to everyone who was there that I was caught good. Just common courtesy to give your opponent props. and everyone saw it any way, so why look delusional/full of sh/t?