Charles Martins sorry excuses

His mind wasn't there because from the first 10 seconds of the fight he knew he's ****ed.

 

Exactly

 

Martin's a journeyman/fringe contender type who lucked out to "win" the title on a freak injury and then was exposed for what he was by a real world class HW.

The fight with Joshua was a mismatch from day one. I never understood how any boxing fans thought this fight would be remotely competitive.

 

Your mind wasn't there? It's nobody's fault but yours. Joshua is just a superior fighter , even if Martin's mind was there still would have lost.

 

I wouldn't feel sorry for him. He made a good chunk of change off that Joshua fight, a better purse than he'd likely ever got had his career taken the "normal" journeyman/fringe contender trajectory.

And now, he'll be able to have a nice career serving as a "name" opponent for up and comers to pad their record with.

 

Yep.:good

Everyone including himself knows he quit like a little beeeech. Pathetic way to give up your belt/title.

 

I really warmed to this guy's personality in the build up to the fight, i thought he was a great character to have in the scene its a shame he didn't live up to expectations, hopefully he can come back and get in the mix. I'm doubtful after that performance but who knows its up to him to prove it. There was one moment just before the fight started the camera panned to his face and he looked like he was ****ting himself to me.

Of course its natural to have sympathy for him but at the same time, this is life its how you get back up and feeling sorry for yourself is the first thing you have to stop doing.

 

I guess this is how I feel although he knows full well he lied to the public in the build up when his camp claimed ridiculous things such as him having never lost a round in sparring.

 

Because we live in hope. There's a saying "you can't tell how good an unbeaten is" ... and I was hoping that Charles Martin would actually turn out to be better than he'd previously looked. Some fighters do. They come in with unremarkable unbeaten records, and a string of dull performances, and actually rise to the occasion and show that they are quite good.
Dillian Whyte gave Joshua a decent fight, and there was hope that Charles Martin, allegedly one of America's top 10 HWs and also the IBF champ, would perhaps be somewhere in Whyte's league.

This just shows how far US heavyweights and the IBF have sunk.

 

Mcgrain is spot on. Fighters have always been self deluded and that's what keeps them fighting after losses. This mentality is also what drives them to pull off upsets when nobody else believes in them. And when they lose comprehensively, in their mind they think they still won ie. Bradley vs Pac 1, Pac vs fmj.