Excuses for a bad performance feat. Alexander Povetkin

Taken from the General:

Alexander Zimin, trainer for Alexander Povetkin, came up with an excuse for his pupil's poor performance against Marco Huck that will probably top anyone's list of most ******ed boxing excuses ever. Said Zimin in today's interview to a Russian boxing site:

"— I do not presently possess any legal proof of what I am about to tell you, but hiding such facts is a crime. In round five I noticed that Sasha's eyes became dim. When I asked him what's wrong, he said that Huck's body was radiating such bad stinking that it made my fighter's head go round and round.

This is where I myself and the other members of our team made the biggest mistake. We didn't pay proper attention to his words. It's happened before in boxing when specific odor coming from one fighter made things very difficult for the other fighter. I don't think that Huck's body just happened to produce such a powerful stench. Sasha's training went very well and we had no reason to worry about his physical shape. The only thing that I found suspicious was Huck's extremely confident, even arrogant manner in which he carried himself during the pre-fight press conference. It didn't look like the usual bravado typical for professional boxers. It seemed Huck had complete confidence in his victory and it was definitely founded on reasons outside pure sport.

I spent many years training fighters in Japan and I must say such methods are quite the norm in the Japanese pro boxing world. People even lost their licenses over such wrongdoings. I remember an episode when a boxer ate fruit that he got from fake relatives and ended up being poisoned before a fight. People will do anything to get to a title fight. This certainly applies to our case because victory over Povetkin meant for Huck a multi-million payday against Klitschko".

atsch

Someone needs some Lynx Africa.

What are the worst excuses in boxing?

 

Do you even know what "Widdy and the smelly arse" refers to? :hey