Why do some losing fighters raise their glove at end of fights?

Because they forgot that they had a serious rotator cuff injury.


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You say that but Mayweather raised his hands then claimed torn rotator cuff years before Manny.

 

We're talking about fighters who lost.


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Fighters will do that unless the get the **** beaten out of them.

A fighter who finishes who's never knocked down finishes with pride. It's the satisfaction of saying you never got me down man. I never went down.

 

In the few amateur bouts I had as a kid I never raised my arm when I knew I'd lost. When you're in the ring though, you do tend to overestimate your own showing. A lot of the time the defeated fighter may actually think they've won. When you've been comprehensively beaten, however - eg. Berto-Mayweather - you don't raise your arm. It just adds to the humiliation. Delusion is the only explanation.

 

Or a sense of pride in doing better than expected - that's probably why Berto raised his arm.

 

He didn't go down. There's some pride in that.

 

That doesn't stop you from bringing up irrelevant response bait.

 

You mad?




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Definitely. Personally, I wouldn't raise my glove but, still, there's no shame in taking pride in that.

 

delusion

 

Boxing is a very macho sport. If you can't knock the other guy down he walks away with some pride. Always.

 

Because scorecards vary, judges are idiots, and hope springs eternal.

 

UD defeat can be great victory, sometimes...