Has a fighter ever lost without making excuses?

castillo

 

he was the better fighter tONIGHT.
-boxers

the magic word there is TONIGHT. the sentence cannot be completed, doesn't make sense without the word 'tonight'.

i think this 'tonight' is an excuse in itself.

 

Gatti doesn't always come up with excuses

 

and btw, pac doesn't make excuses..

..often.

 

Bernard Hopkins after his 1st Taylor loss said that it's not like when he knew he lost like when he fought Roy...so this kind of credits Roy. Also Joppy in his locker room interview after the Tito fight...calling him relentlesss and not knowing he could hit like that.

 

Totally agree...

Also tyson made no excuses after being belted against lewis...

No need to throw hate at me as im only saying the lewis fight...

 

Braihs Asloum after losing to Lorenzo Parra, he pointed at parra acknowledging parra's win when the desicion was announced ...

also my boi James Leija was always gracious and classy in defeat

 

I agree that he did take his 2 defeats with dignity but did say he thought the bout got stopped early against mcCall,and felt he was underdone before the rahman fight...

I aint a lewis fan but he did take defeat better than most fighters..

Especially considering they were against huge underdogs and by k.o.

 

Its was.

 

It was an entirely legitimate opinion, that he wasn't given a chance to continue. He was definately hurt, but considering it was his first pro knockdown, he handled it very well. He had enough presence of mind to look directly at the ref and tuck his gloves up under his chin, which showed good composure under the circumstances. Maybe he would have gotten knocked out twenty seconds later, but I think he could have bullshitted his way out of it. That's the way she goes though I guess.

:thumbsup

 

In the biggest most hyped fight in flyweight history, Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzales had pretty much had his way with Michael Carbajal for 6 rounds, even dropping and hurting Carbajal twice.......
.....suddenly and unexpectedly, Gonzalez got caught and knocked cold by a Carbajal combination in the 7th.....

.....right afterward in the ring while Gonzales was interviewed, Ruben Castillo who was interviewing Gonzales was handing Gonzales on a silver platter an excuse that everything was coming so easy for Gonzales that he just got careless and caught by Carbajal......
.....in essence, Castillo was almost putting words into Gonzales' mouth......
......I'll never forget the class Chiquita Gonzales exhibited in stomping Castillo's assumption that Chiquita simply got careless and Carbajal got lucky......Gonzales immediately interrupted Castillo and said, "nothing of the sort, he caught me, he dropped me, and it's just too bad, he beat me fair and square!"
Rarely is that kind of brute honesty exhibited in the ring by a fighter right after being KO'd in a fight he was up to that point dominating.

Chiquita gave Michael Carbajal his moment in the sun, and gave him all the credit a fighter deserves after winning a big fight!

Humberto "Chiquita" Gonzales was all class!

 

Valuev after the defeat to CHagaev