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He lucky ring don’t award that kind of sh.it
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Yep I'm afraid loser of the year has to go to Wilder. No shame what so ever in losing to a divisions Lineal champion but the aftermath has become one of the most embarrassing things the sport has seen.Comment
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Yup, Deontay is indeed loser of the year, with Loma coming in just behind him.Comment
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As someone who liked him before this year, rated him highly and has been entertained by his fights, yeah, if this an award you're giving you can't give it to anyone else. He went from the most feared and ferocious knockout artist in the sport to a laughing stock, and most of that damage to his rep wasn't even done by Fury's fists but instead by his own big mouth. If he'd have took the loss with grace, sure, all his usual detractors would be trolling him all over the place but most reasonable people would just shrug and say that he lost to a great fighter and give him a chance to rebuild and come again.
Personally I'd make some honourable mentions though. In no specific order:
Loma fell from grace in a similar way to Wilder - while his excuses aren't quite as outlandish as Wilder's the L he took hurt him more as he was a heavy favourite to win, the loss cost him the P4P #1 spot, and most galling of all he could have won if it weren't for his bizarre tactics in the early rounds.
Even though Broner didn't fight in 2020 he deserves mention for getting utterly reamed by the courts yet again.
Oscar de la Hoya and Golden Boy let Canelo and his ridiculously lucrative DAZN contract slip from their fingers and became even more irrelevant compared to their competition that they were already.
Daniel Jacobs put on one of the most pathetic performances from a high profile fighter all year in his fight against Gabe Rosado, which on paper was an utter mismatch that he should have effortlessly won, but instead he sc****d by with a dodgy gift split decision win that most observers seem to agree he didn't deserve.
Dillian Whyte became a contender for knockout of the year victim in a fight in which he looked almost certain to win, while his status as WBC mandatory, which seemed like it might finally be coming to fruition, was utterly derailed.
Perhaps most of all the sport of boxing in general lost out thanks to getting utterly sodomised by Covid. Sure, most sports took a big L from the Rona in 2020 but it seemed like boxing got it especially bad. Because promoters are money-obsessed goblins who won't deal with one another unless they can wring every last penny out of a potential matchup, and elite fighters are increasingly overpaid divas who won't play ball unless they get paid an obscene paycheque and get to lord it over the opponent like a king, and no live gates means less money, no good fighters fought more than once, a bunch of good fights already pencilled in got cancelled or delayed, and many of the matchups that the sport direly needs to make happen seem more remote than ever. Meanwhile the profile of the sport keeps getting more and more tarnished by alphabet org clownery and corruption as well as trashy meme fights commanding more attention than legitimate contests.
Oh, and speaking of meme fights, Nate Robinson for getting splattered by ****ing Jake Paul of all people and becoming a viral meme.Comment
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He wins this by a long way.
No issue with losing. I don't even really have an issue with sacking Breland.
But the excuses, the conspiracies, the lies, the melodramatic video.
The guy is seriously deluded.Comment
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Wilder has always sounded like an idiot. But all of that "bomb squad" senseless screaming, plus the constant bullshìt he was spewing, were being removed by his spectacular knockouts.
The loss vs Fury merely put a certification stamp on Deontay's ******ity.Last edited by Tatabanya; 01-02-2021, 06:52 AM.Comment
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