Boxings sore losers

Yeah he apparently fizzled out. Was that Alton Merkerson who tossed Stonie with one shot?

 

James Butler

 

Holmes was exactly the same. He is probably the sorest winner i have ever seen. Anytime a performance wasn't pristine or he had some trouble out the excuses would come.

Roberto Duran must be in contention for the worst per the exact thread topic too.

 

"Richard Steele is a '**** you'"- Chavez

 

Pacquiao, followed by Chavez.

 

I understand why a lot of fighters have excuses, as they need the confidence and it's hard to accept after training and fighting so hard that someone else is better, but still, there are some funny excuses.

George Foreman for the Muhammad Ali fight. Excuse after excuse. His water was drugged, the count was quick, ropes were loose, etc...He claimed he learned to accept the loss after a couple years, and then makes more excuses in his autobiography in the 90s where he claims he was about to knock Ali out but got distracted by his disloyal friend in the audience who was rooting for Ali. Foreman also claimed in his autobiography that he deserved the decision over Holyfield. Then about 10 years ago, he repeated his "I was drugged" claim regarding Ali.

To his credit, Foreman was robbed against Briggs and didn't complain at all when interviewed afterwards.

Duran's book by Christian Guidance details his many excuses. He claimed was injured against DeJesus, he has had a ton of stories regarding No Mas, he was distracted in training for Benitez by the convicts, it was the IRS's fault he lost to Leonard in 1989, etc..

But I can't think of any worse loser than James Butler punching Richard Grant after the fight. What a disgusting piece of **** that guy is.

 

Felix Trinidad ran from the sport when he would lose ... a warrior but def not someone who could accept defeat

 

Whining is when there is no real reason to complain. So it doesn't apply to what Stone was complaining about such as low blows, elbows, ref interference, ref ignoring fouls, opponent on roids, biased commentator remarks and last but not least, judges robbery. All legitimate abuses that needed to be exposed and criticized.

 

That dude was later convicted for murdering Max Kellerman's brother.

 

He did this in every fight. That's called a ***** made whiner. I rejoiced, as did every single person but you, when Merkerson lumped up his dome. Stonie was a loud-mouthed POS!!

 

Lennox Lewis wasn't too hot in this area, in fact I think I have only heard him give another fighter credit maybe twice. I think all he could muster was something like "you get hit, lose the count, the fight ends", push the boat out with the congrats Lennox

I see Tyson mentioned which is a bit daft. It was Don King going on about the long count against Douglas, Tyson kind of looked embarrassed to me. When pushed on his training at the time he even said he wouldnt use that as an excuse to take the victory away from Douglas. Holyfield 1 he was very respectful afterwards, same with Lennox Lewis, damn near loving those guys up. Danny Williams he just disappeared out of embarrassment and the Irish guy was the end of the line. It was only the Holy rematch I saw him react badly to so I fail to see why he would be on the thread.

 

Well, I guess we disagree on that point since I saw each and every protest as 100% justifiably legitimate.

BTW
I am not the only one who saw Ruiz getting Robbed in Germany, getting robbed in the first Holyfield fight, getting repeatedly elbowed and head-butted by Holyfield with ref permission, and getting unfair interference from a biased Nady. That you and others refuse to see it is really of no importance in my deciding on whether boxing rules are being broken or not.


BTW
Your appeal to the popularity of an opinion is considered fallacious reasoning.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/bandwagn.html

 

Excessive clenching is against the rules but thanks to the Don King influence John Ruiz was allowed to do it. When he wasn't allowed against Jones he was exposed as an average fighter at best.

 

Benitez had an excuse everytime he lost if i remember correctly.

 

I recall Sugar Ray Leonard making an excuse after Camacho boxed him silly in his 75th attempt at a comeback ... during the interview in the ring, he said to the effect of "Well, as usual, the rumors of my injury were true" - apparently he'd sprained his ankle or something during training, and wasn't able to push off effectively on the foot. Dude, plain and simple - you lost. The only thing that could have saved him that night was a time machine.