Most Bizarre/Worst Excuse You've Ever Heard From A Fighter That Lost?

In the fab four documentary Duran said that he got knocked out by Hearns because he was thinking about a threesome he had while in training for the fight and was distracted because of it. That's about the best excuse ever!

 

Very nice post Swag - and thanks for the links to your resources. Yeah, the references to Machen and Folley claiming foul play re Liston's gloves have always been vague. And it was even more vague when I read Williams' name mentioned on a few occasions as having also accused Liston of same. That's why I put a ? to his name - it never gelled, and it did read as mere repetition of a claim that had no legitimate source. I think some people were simply too quick to accept and paint Liston as a cheat and bad man, they didn't bother themselves with the finer, factual details.

 

Oscar: oysters,
Mosley: a wiggly tooth,
Pacquiao: a cheap pair of socks
David haye: a hurt pinky toe
Kovalev: he hit me in the balls
Judah: he (Cotto) drained me with those ball shots, excruciating pain.
Lennox : I didn't get knocked out I just couldn't beat the count.
Rahman: blamed it on Ramadan
Victor Ortiz: it was a sucker punch
Oscar again this time vs Mayweather: it was the night of the jabs but my jab wasn't there, I outboxed him with affective aggression
Oscar again vs trinidad: this time I boxed him, next time I'll brawl him tee hee
Angel I got an excuse Manfredy: he knows he lost, they know he lost, god knows he lost.
Mike Tyson: he kept hitting me with headbutts,
Holyfield: I had an off night
John Ruiz: the ref wouldn't let me do my thing you know what I mean?
Roy Jones junior: Tarver made sure he had no excuses that night.
Judah to jay nady: you stopped the fight too early, after the chicken dance
Vargas looking like a mongoloid: I was slowly coming on, the direction of the Mosley fight was starting to turn in my favor
Wlad: either too much Vaseline or drugged
Vitali: hurt his shoulder, against Byrd ahead on points.
Rahman about tua: they saying I'm out of shape, look he's out of shape.
Rahman: if I lose to Ruiz I'll retire. I believe he lost however not retired.
Margarito: first good legit stoppage, that eye was toast.
Cotto: cried tears of blood, same thing.
Marquez made a t shirt "I beat him x many times'' of Pacquiao.
Bobby Pacquiao: I believe he won albeit he did have some slippery shoes lol. The masked tape on the foot night! Made for some interesting comments from atlas and tessitore: "it's in his bloodline, to be great like his brother" alluding to Bob p.
Tyson again: I broke my back , it was spinal. After a win.

 

One could fill a whole book titled “The Excuses of Roberto Duran,” but he actually, after getting all but shut out in the third fight with Leonard, claimed a conspiracy involving the United States and referee Richard Steele (as their agent) to not let him fight inside … when he pretty much never got inside and didn’t attempt to do anything when he did.

Roberto just followed Ray around like a puppy dog all night, wagging his tail because he was happy to be there.

 

In his bout with Evander Holyfield Rickey Parkey rushed out of his corner like a whirling dervish at breakneck speed. It didn't help as he was KO'd in 3. But in the post-fight interview the interviewer asked what happened and Parkey actually said that he didn't start fast enough. I recall laughing when the interviewer looked at him incredulously saying, "You didn't start fast enough?" And Parkey stuck with the excuse.

I used to work with a guy who was next door neighbors with Ernie Terrell's Dad. One day he was talking to the Dad over the fence when Ernie came by. The dude asked Ernie what happened in the Ali fight and Ernie said that Ali was rubbing his face into the ropes. Ernie's Dad looked at him and said, "Man, the only thing that man rubbed in your face that night was leather!"

 

Yes I saw that doco - what a pearler of an excuse!

The biggest concern is, did the intense pre fight face off, with Tommy staring deeply into Roberto’s eyes, somehow trigger memories of the ménage trois?

Tommy’s death stare was meant to intimidate, not stimulate.

 

This is true. Just take the loss Roberto.

I will say, if the Duran right hand that split Ray’s eye (round 11?), was a bit lower, right on the chin - it might well have been a shock turn around.

Marvin Halger was the only commentator to pick it up in real time that a punch caused the damage - meanwhile Gil Clancy was trying hard to argue that it was a head clash - with only the slo mo replay finally putting paid to his rant.

 

After his first fight with Charles Williams, Bobby Czyz (wearing a sweet pair of shades) complained that standing eight-counts were not allowed in Las Vegas. There was, of course, no standing eight-count applied in the fight. The first knockdown was pretty standard, and the second came when Williams grabbed the ropes to prevent himself from falling. That's a different thing from a standing eight-count.

 

This reminds me of what my grandmother said about both Louis and Ali when she was discussing boxing with me back in the day. From my memory, almost word for word…
“How can two such lovely looking boys do such damage to people? Look at their angelic faces, like butter wouldn’t melt…”

 

That's gold. Such a sweet grandmother.

 

She was pretty cool…she passed away in January this year at the grand ol age of 109 with Joe Louis still her no1 boxer right up to the end.

 

Not so much "No Mas" More "Tres Mas"

 

Bless her.

 

Roger Mayweather saying he had too much licorice when he lost to Julio Cesar Chavez Sr the second time.

 

Weight-making is always the easy way out of a loss, but Meldrick Taylor took it to the extreme. He blamed weight-making on the Chavez loss as well as the referee as we know. He said he could no longer make 140 and from here on out he was campaigning as a welterweight. Indeed he did, and won a portion of the 147 lb. title and made a few defenses. And then proceeded to move up to 154 to fight Terry Norris. When he was knocked asunder by Norris, then lost his 147 title to Crisanto Espana and all avenues of big money now gone, he suddenly found that he actually could make 140 4 years after his first fight with Chavez, which was also 4 years after claiming he couldn't make it. That must've been one of those 'Eureka' moments.

Also, I always found the story of Jerry Quarry's post-fight interview after getting counted out by George Chuvalo a funny one. The story was:

Interviewer: Jerry, what happened?

Quarry: I lost the referee's count.

Interviewer: Where did you lose it at?

Quarry: At 'nine'