Boxings sore losers

James Butler.

 

Roberto "Muchos Excuses" Duran. always made up excuses that he didn't train when he fought the great fighters like Hearns , Benitez or Hagler and Leonard, but somehow he trained for Barkley and Moore.

 

Chuvalo. The guy was one of the most limited, one dimensional HW contenders and he has a lame excuse for every loss on his record. If you believe him he should be undefeated and is the greatest fighter of all time.

 

Tommy Loughran?

 

Pac has looked a bit silly since claiming he beat Mayweather. Definitely a sore loser .

And Haye didn't do himself any favours showing his little toe and crying after being slapped about by Wlad.

 

Yeah Tommy Loughran is a good shout. Hes almost comically bad because he didnt just have excuses but he would glat out lie and pretend that he won fights he didnt. Ive seen several qoutes from him where he was saying he lost the decision but all the newspapers had him winning then go read the papers and NOBODY thought he won.

 

Hearns said he had weak legs before Hagler, so that is why he brawled, which is a good thing he had weak legs because a 12 round boxing fight whoever wins will not be remembered as well as that fight is today. Had Marvin and Tommy boxed and jabbed a technical fight, it would not be remembered like it is today, regardless of who won. The ironic thing is the way they fought and the type of fight it was, puts Marvin and Tommy at a very high level.

 

Larry Holmes is the first to spring to mind. He's probably the least gracious of the hw champs in about every way, including losing.

 

Willard's "cement gloves" bit was one of the more extreme.

Jeffries always seemed to have an excuse for an off performance. In fairness, he honestly gave credit to Johnson right after their fight, but of course later the tea was poisoned.

D-ck Tiger was certainly a courageous fighter, but he had an odd side complaining if an opponent boxed him. It was somehow cowardly to hit and move. It reminded me of a bully in an old western who got beaten up by a smaller man with boxing skills and complained "why didn't he stand in one place so I could hit him?"

 

Broner, who fought much of the Garcia on the backfoot and being defensive, said "Garcia ran!"

 

I agree about Lennox. He even said "There's no way Hasim Rahman can beat me" about 10 minutes after Rahman beat him.

Tyson was all over the place with his statements. One minute he was being gracious to the extreme, the next minute he was bringing in all the excuses.

 

Danny Jacobs

loss to Dmitry Pirog: Jacobs agreed to be interviewed by Jim Lampley just after his KO loss to Dmitry Pirog; first thing out of Jacobs mouth was that he lost because he had a poor camp, and the reason for that was because his grandmother passed away. Lampley was apparently surprised by this so he asked Jacobs if he thought his grandmother passing was the reason for his loss and Jacob confirmed. Jacobs never once said anything about his opponent

loss to GGG: won't stop talking about this loss and how he believes he won. First, Jacobs skipped out on IBF same-day weigh-in and lied about it (he claimed it was decision made on the morning of the fight, Victor Conte, the ex-BALCO ringleader, outed him during an interview just before fight). Second, the fight contact required VADA testing; GGG was tested numerous times, which are well documented; i haven't found anything that says Jacobs was tested even once. Jacobs was enormous--no idea how big, but by comparison to GGG, he was huge--no secret there. And third, Jacobs team insisted that the rematch clause be removed from the contract.

so after all of this, Jacobs wants an immediate rematch. Every interview he's had, he manages to mention his fight with GGG and that he should won it "by at least two rounds"; In this last interview, he talks like he actually did win the fight:

All these guys aren’t showing any interest. Right now I’m in a position where a lot of guys, they realize what I am, and they don’t want to get to that level. It’s exactly because of what I did to Golovkin. It’s because of what I am, and what I bring to the table. You’re going to see what I did to Golovkin a lot more in the future,” said Jacobs.​

 

Tyson seems to do it more now that's for sure, bring up the excuses but guess he is trying to protect his badly damaged legacy, they all do it. Then again in a recent podcast with Lennox lewis he just admitted Lennox beat him and he trained as well as he could have. So yeah a bit mixed but i felt he was usually gracious in defeat at the time, he respected what the fighter did it seemed to me. He doesn't fall into the subject of this catogaory anyway imo. For all his faults tyson is pretty humble, Lennox makes him look like Gandhi.

 

I think nowadays he doesn't really care but he says whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear at that moment. There's a lot of truths and half-truths and myths but it's harmless really. He's probably more accurate than most ex-fighters though.

Back in the day, he was usually gracious in defeat. I think that's what he was naturally and what he wanted to be, and it's a manly trait he probably admired in the old-time fighters he tried to emulate.
The problem is, he surrounded himself with some bad company who didn't have those standards and he wasn't strong enough not to get influenced. Therefore, going along with Don King and the WBC's nonsense post-Douglas, and within a few weeks or months making excuses about training etc.
Again, after the Holyfield fight he was gracious and respectful but when his hangers-on got to influencing him he was already making the headbutts an excuse prior to the 2nd fight ..... and the less said about that one the better !

 

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Every time Holyfield lost, he always had some illness or the other.
After the Moorer loss he was ill. Before the Tyson fight, he was ill, after he wins, he was cured again, before the Lewis fight he was ill and so on