Worst excuse for a loss?

A smart man would just give the coke to the hookers. Might make 'em more fun..

 

Response to OP:

My vote for worst excuse was Leonard after the Camacho debacle; first comments afterwards: "As usual, the rumors regarding my getting injured prior to the fight are true", then went into a speech about an ankle injury that made him lose mobility. No Ray, your 1956 birthday was the reason you lacked mobility and got stopped badly. No excuses. Everyone loses. Deal with it.

 

"Its not a blow blow. It was good panch" - Bobby Pacquiao

 

Manny Pacquiao after the Floyd loss was probably the worst excuse maker of all time. He supposedly had a torn rotator cuff but went into the fight anyways (too much money to turn down). Back peddled and piled on more and more excuses. First he claimed he won and that Floyd didn't do enough to win, then he said he knew he would lose because of a dream he had and other nonsense. Pacquiao made excuses for other fights so it was within his character, but he's one of those guys that always gets a pass for some reason.

 

I don't think anything tops Wilder blaming the ring entrance outfit he choose to wear for being too heavy.

Plus his three dozen other excuses.

 

I was in the 3702 Squadron, Flight 218, we graduated on Oct 1 1979, our basic training back then was 6 weeks long. I then went to Chanute AFB for Tech School for 6 more weeks, then afterwards it was home as I was in the 162 TFG Air National Guard for 6 years, which was the full obligation back then. One weekend a month, two weeks of Summer Camp a year. I was a Sergeant upon my honorable discharge on June 8 1985, the day of the Pedroza vs McGuigan title bout which I recorded on my VCR, watched it when I got home to my apartment.

 

Agree with everything except the sun thing…that was a common tactic I’ve heard many fighters use. I’ve heard fighters ranging from Archie Moore to Max Baer using the positioning to blind opponents. I also thought Max Baer used a broken hand as an excuse against Louis? Never heard the leg thing. But why on earth someone would fight with a broken hand is beyond me.

 

David Haye's little toe

 

So, a Deontay Wilder thread.

 

Zab Judah Cotto: "he drained me with those punches to the balls " said Zab after the fight.


Lewis Rahman: said LL: "I didn't get knocked out I just didn't beat the ten count."

Oscars personal problem, I can't remember what fight but it was due to raw oysters he ate before the night of the fight.

Close calls but they pulled it off in the end:
Bobby Pacquiao, if they didn't put tape on the soles of his shoes he would have lost due to foot slippage as seen on ESPN2 Friday night fights.

Manny, playing video games before the fight. At this point he was a regular guy playing vids with his entourage, someone told him to hit the lights out (go to bed) "because we all remember what happened to Tyson vs buster." Pacquiao immediately flipped a switch and threw a tantrum. But he didn't lose the fight the next day. Imagine that though? Due to video games.

Michael Moorer before the Holyfield fight: Mike was trying to grab some shuteye, over bearing teddy, the consumate pseudo psychiatrist shouted "turned the lights back on! You have to face the lights! Like you did in training! I'm not letting you stay in the dark! You are in the light!"

 

I was going to say 3 pages in and nobody mentioned Haye’s pinky toe. Kudos to I am the greatest. That held the number 1 ranking for me until the Halloween costume weakened the legs of Wilder.

 

In Zab’s case he was telling the truth

 

I remember this one, Jel. The fighter he fought was Mauro Gutierrez and he caught Ruelas cleanly in the 2nd round, but nothing he couldn't have come back from. I had this on VHS for years but don't know if its out there on youtube. Anyways, Ruelas was down and was on one knee while the ref was counting him. But Ruelas isn't looking at the ref, he's looking at Joe Goosen who is holding up his fingers and keeping count. The only problem was that he was one second behind the ref on each count. When the ref was saying '7' Goosen was holding up '6' and saying six aloud. It was so stupid to be looking at Goosen with the ref right in front of him and it cost him an early loss.

 

1) Too many fighters can't handle that loss. They take the easy way out by saying, "Uh, yeah, I had a hard time making the weight. Yeah, that's the ticket, I couldn't make the weight and from now on I'm moving up." This is what Meldrick Taylor said after his bout with Julio Cesar Chavez. And he did. Moved up to 147 and won a belt there and then tried 154. Lost to Norris and then lost his welterweight title to Crisanto Espana. With no more big money matches on the horizon, hey, suddenly, he can make 140 afterall. But instead of making that mega-buck immediate rematch money, he makes 140 four years later.

2) Rickey Parkey v Evander Holyfield - Parkey came out at the bell for round 1 like an absolute whirling dervish, throwing everything in his arsenal at Holyfield, which prompted Holyfield to step up his attack immediately. Holyfield stopped Parkey in 3 and after the fight, the interviewer asked Parkey what he could have done differently or what happened - something like that - and Parkey said, "I started too slowly, I should have come at him faster." Even the interviewer was taken aback, saying something like, "You started too slowly?" Parkey wouldn't budge. He again said, "Yep, started too slow."

3) George Foreman against Muhammad Ali - George didn't sit on his laurels on this one. He threw every excuse out there. First he said the canvas was too soft, then the ropes were too loose, then the count was too fast and then finally about a month later he said he was drugged.

4) Bernard Taylor against Barry McGuigan - Taylor started out so fast and - IMO - was doing a nice job of boxing for about 5 rounds before McGuigan's wilting body shots started landing with regularity and his corner retired him after 8. After the bout Taylor's manager said it was because of the food, that they weren't making things for him in Ireland that he could eat. Well, Taylor didn't seem to mind the food as he came in overweight and had to work off the weight before making it on his second attempt.

 

I remember the little smile that Klitchko had when told about it.