Whiney type champions, always claiming conspiracies.

In the boxing dictionary, Wilder's picture is next to "low ring IQ"....

 

Bernard Hopkins definitely

Don't know how any could even justify Hopkins possibly getting the victory against Calzaghe. Bernard was using every excuse to avoid fighting in the later rounds.

 

Amir Khan, that hat man conspiracy theory still makes me laugh and he makes excuses for every loss.

Paulie Malignaggi, doesn't really need any explaining, the man even shoved his trainer Buddy McGuirt cause he stopped a fight Malignaggi was losing badly. Let's not forget his infamous rant in the 1st Juan Diaz fight then there was that whole McGregor situation.

 

You're looking at him given the treatment he is given today.

You need to go back to how he was treated back during his reign. Despite being undefeated and clearly a good fighter, he never got **** worth of a shot until he was 29 years old. Even after winning the title, he was commonly referred to as an Ali impersonator and never well respected. Supposedly even Cosell was a dick to him for years. He was treated to a world of racist **** before the Cooney fight, which only made him more salty in general. Ok, loses and says some salty words he shouldn't have said, then is robbed in the rematch.

I get his salt. He was a top 5 ATG, knew it, and was never treated like it until he retired and fans started watching old matches on YouTube. As a fighter, he never really got the treatment by the crowd and announcers he always felt he deserved until the Mercer fight.

I get it.

Yes, he should be happy in retrospect at this point. But he is. He stopped being salty long ago.

 

Mike Tyson broke his back. Spinal.

 

Cosell was a dick to everybody, though. Even Ali, although he toned down his Cosellishness because he wanted to keep riding Ali's coattails.

The racism is a fair point, but lots of other black fighters faced racism. (Ali, for example.) Most champions aren't respected as they deserve during their careers; it's only in retrospect that people look more fondly on them. Ali himself only became a public institution because he hung on so long.

Now, would *I* handle Holmes's suffering with grace? Almost certainly not. But then, I'm whiny, so that's hardly a good standard. Most heavyweight champions are much more restrained than "civilians" when it comes to publicly complaining about things.

 

Huge pass. Took this man forever to get a title shot. I'd be paranoid too.

 

Those older champs weren't anxious to fight a young lion. The draw did a number on Hagler. Vito was game.

 

Jack Sharkey had an excuse for nearly every fight he lost. He was nicknamed the Weeping Warrior by the press and called cry baby the way he sulked and carried on after each loss. Tommy Loughran made his share of excuses too.

Hopkins and Wilder top the list of the more recent fighters. Teofimo Lopez still hasn’t come to terms with his loss to Kambosos and is emotionally fragile.

 

I think we can find a lot of fighters who had good cause to whine over a number of fronts - but then again, many didn’t or at least not protractedly so.

Take Ken Norton and the rubber v Ali (a robbery IMO) Ken voiced his disagreement but it wasn’t whining or unreasonably perpetuated - and he didn’t let or allow it to define him. Even the razor thin loss to Holmes, Ken might’ve felt doubly hard done by but again, Ken carried himself perfectly.

If a fighter seems defined by his complaints, he’s likely whining a lot more than the other average bears who likely have as much to complain about themselves but refrain from doing so.

 

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser -
Vince Lombardi