Now I assume not too many boxers ever made a statement like this in the history of the sport (at least not that I know of, especially at the highest level). IMO, it'd be so utterly great and refreshing if a fighter A, who's, let's say awarded a win via UD, versus his fight with fighter B, post-fight openly states that he ''didn't know what fight the judges were watching'' and that he (fighter A) ''clearly'' lost, only to add that boxing's politics, corruption and incompetent officials is a serious problem. And I don't mean stating this simply after being unhappy/unsatisfied with your own performance. I'm talking about a situation where the consensus is/was that fighter B was robbed. An example can be Chavez vs Whitaker. Would be one helluva statement.
Bradley nearly admitted it when he was gifted the Pacqioua win. He bit his tongue though and said he'd have to watch the fight.:think I waited and waited for him to admit he lost, but he never quite gave a convincing confession.atsch
I think a fighter doing that would gain massive respect and would make a couple of judges look stupid/corrupt. I already repected fighters more that were a bit more diplomatic after getting a gift, being like "it was close and the judges saw it my way" or something simular, to the ones that were like "I won the fight 8-4" and blame the commentators for the public seeing him getting a beating.
That will never happen. Would it be refreshing? Hell yea!! Epic even. But never happen. Most likely becuz it woukd be career suicide. Imagine if garcia admitted that Herrera won...all that money and conniving by schaefer down the drain...we wouldn't see garcia for a long time or we'd see him go unprotected against a guy who is predestined to win with that guy becoming the new protected champ and garcia fading away. Not picking on danny here just a good recent example so to all the comments soon to come about me being a hater...I don't care
Wow...that was sweet. Who'd have thought it would come from a stinking Brit to. Has anyone seen this guy since?
I would respect a fighter for doing it, but in their shoes i would never directly admit it myself. Best they would get out of me is "It was a close fight that could of gone either way and i won, or something like that"
He has several times... I don't think he did right after the fight though. Louis felt he lost to Walcott in their first fight.
I got the impression that Calzaghe didn't think he won the fight against Hopkins until sometime after the post-fight interviews. He was shocked when they told him he landed more shots on Hopkins than any other opponent, saying, "it didn't feel like it". He's since sounded a much more convincing tune, but not in the immediate aftermath.
oscar after his fight with sturm. he was really disappointed in his performance. i think he said he was lucky to get the win tonight
I can't really imagine a boxer admitting he lost until he actually saw the fight on tape, as he's not really in a position to make that assessment just after a fight, unless he was really rocked and received a couple of 10 counts and still squeaked out a victory. But after watching it on tape he could possibly make that assessment. Holyfield came close to admitting he lost when he was awarded that gift draw decision against Lewis, but he never quite said those words.
What did Bradley do? Ran over and jumped onto the ring corner and started doing some weird celebration.