Excuses, Excuses, Excuses. BUT... Sometimes Excuses For A Loss Are Perfectly Valid.

If there is some trilogy mindset on both sides, Mayweather would've still wanted the first win so he continued to hold all negotiating powers for the second fight. If Pacquiao does somehow, someway beat Mayweather in a rematch, then of COURSE there'd be a trilogy and it would probably break the first record that they set together.

Money, money, money. When does it stop being about money. What happened to fighting someone because you just want to hurt them, plain and simple.

 

Agreed, good shout abuffy!

Check out the thread I just made, "examples of..." it's along the same lines.

 

It's really good! :good The last grudge match I watched was Golovkin vs Stevens. We all know Stevens just talked himself into the fight, it's admitted. Golovkin was so angered by his over-the-top and distasteful trash talk, that it ****ed him off to a place I've never seen from him before. Remember the twitter incidence where Curtis posted a picture of all his buddies posed around a coffin with the name "GGG" on it?

Golovkin expressed it in English as much as he could about how much he hated Curtis, "I want to fight him before our fight, like street fight. My coach tells me, 'Please, Gennady. Box. Do not street fight.' He [Stevens] is loud mouth."

In a russian interview, he was able to be much more eloquent with his choice of words and described to the reporter how he would make him bleed and beat Curtis until he died. In that fight, Gennady didn't care if Curtis was a nobody. Gennady didn't care that Curtis didn't belong in the ring with him. Gennady didn't care about the money. He simply wanted to fight Curtis to hurt him. He just wanted to hurt him!

Then immediately after the fight with his interview with Max Kellerman, he still showed no respect. He still looked mad. "I ask him one question. Are you serious? [mocking Curtis] Yeah! I'm serious!"

This is why Gennady Golovkin is my favorite fighter. And a fight with Ward would be a great fight, one for legacy, but for Gennady, it also would be a grudge match.

 

Making excuses in life or in sports is pathetic. You ****yze your errors, you live another day and try to do better. Very important factor in sports is when you lose you always will find something in your head. I was a bit tired, I had the flu not long ago and so on. But you never now how was your opponent. You don't know if he was sick or injured. Many and Roach excuses after the Floyd fight were pathetic. It reminds me what a warrior was for example Hearns who didn't go to hospital right alway to check his broken right hand in order not to take the shine away from Hagler victory.

 

My thoughs... Too much to read. atsch

 

So what I can gather from the OP is that cuts wins no longer count, neither do TKO's or points wins if you cause damage to your opponents vision with your own punches.

 

Like Vitali-Lewis.

 

I see a lot of tears went into the OP?

No excuse is valid