Making excuses after a loss

imagine how bowe felt then getting it done about 10 times by a 240lb nutter and actually being on his nuts

 

I mean it's possible, but Khan for all his flaws (and delusions) has always acted like a warrior. He sought to fight all the best, and got up/kept going when getting dropped (Prescott, Garcia, others...). It's at least fair to say that it would be against character.

 

I agree totally, if we're talking about the first half of his career. No doubt; total warrior. But since he came back after hanging around for Mayweather and failing to get the fight, I think he was less committed to the sport - evidenced by Hunter's frustration getting him in the gym. Then more so after the Canelo fight.

Then against Crawford it was the first time in his career he'd been out boxed and I think that was hurting more than anything. Previous losses could be put down to his suspect chin, but against Bud he was losing to someone who was simply better. I think momentarily he'd had enough. Like I say, I think he probably regrets it. He could have taken the five minutes, or a proportion of, and then decide if the pain was too much. Why not, unless you'd just had enough?

 

Excuses are for losers

 

Exactly! Like Muhammed Ali said to Angelo Dundee after the Frazier loss we will get him next time.

 

He does not regret it. He simply Quit!!! Amir Khan in my opinion is a despicable human being trying to con the public.

 

Many fighters are simply better than him. He took the Crawford fight a fight he knew he could not win because he would rather lose to Crawford than the humiliation of a Kell Brook domestic loss. If he was a true warrior he would have faced Brook but he never will.

 

For Deontay Wilder the gown he wore to celebrate black history month was to heavy and the pressure of black history month overwhelmed him.

 

No there is not he rather actually paid compliment to 2 warriors who went to war. One thing about AJ that boy is full of class. When he lost to Andy Ruiz Jr in the post fight interview he congratulated Ruiz Jr and hailed him as the first heavyweight world champion from the great country of Mexico. No excuses. He said Ruiz was the better man on the night.

 

I should add that I was a fan early on, but he gradually became very annoying and deluded. He definitively Kell Brook. Even now.

 

Mayweather post Castillo.

I think I hurt my arm.
I mean shoulder.
I mean rotator cuff or something....

That was a gem right there.

 

Ditto...

 

Losing graciously is a hard thing for a standing champion to do.

Two champions I can think of that I commend for not lashing out with excuses even though they could very well have clinged onto them but didn't...…….
Humberto "Chiquita" Gonalez after getting knocked out by Michael Carbajal.
In a fight he was winning having already hurt and floored Carbajal, Chiquita got overly aggressive and got caught by Carbajal that hurt him badly which a couple of shots later put his light out.
The post fight interviewer in the ring tried to hand him an excuse in a silver platter than he was winning and just got careless, to wish Gonzalez then said, "no no no, nothing of the sort, he caught me, he floored, and that's to bad, that's boxing, you win and you lose.
I'll never forget how gracious Gonzalez was that night and still is to this day.
A little man in stature but a Giant of a man in every other sense of the word.

The other was Kostya Tszyu in his defeat at the hands of Ricky Hatton. The interviewer after the fight tried to guide him into stating that he was winning the fight and that Hatton had fought dirty...…..Tszyu would have nothing ot it, stating that he knew where he was at in the fight and had simply had enough deciding to stop instead of continueing and risking getting seriously hurt.
Tszyu gave all credit to Hatton and didn't offer any excuses.

Two class acts to be sure!

 

Awesome!! I can't help but think is the Mancini - Arguello fight. Two major class acts at the end!

 

I think Geale blaming himself for agreeing to catchweight feels like a reason. You can see how that would contribute to his defeat. He's looking to explain what just happened and thinks that was a factor in why he lost.

With Wilder you feel he's just looking to attribute blame somewhere else. Anywhere but himself. It's a damage limitation exercise trying to protect his own ego rather than a breakdown of why what happened happened the way it did.