The Biggest Excuses for Favorite Boxers

[elmersalsa]

What are some of the excuses from favorite boxers. I had heard and read a lot of excuses of many fans about their favorite boxers when they lose. This will be a great topic. Are the excuses legit? Or they're not?

[HomicideHenry]

Depends on the boxer.

Jerry Quarry put up a competitive fight against Jimmy Ellis and made no excuses about the decision. A few days later it's revealed he fought the fight with a broken back (legitimately). He didn't excuse himself for the loss because of it, though it did make many people think: "If his back wasn't broken he'd of won the fight."

[gilgamesh]

Lots of guys got excuses, but there's not any you can give really. If you weren't in condition to fight and win, you shouldn't have got in there.

[Brute]

Excuses are like assholes. Everybody has one and they all stink.

[Kalan]

Most frequent excuse is they really won and they were robbed...

Other excuses.... They took the fight on short notice .... They had a bad hand .... They had a bad wrist .... They had a bad elbow .... They had a bad shoulder .... They had a bad knee, hip, back, toe, knuckle, eye ..... They had personal problems like going through a divorce, loss of a child, mother, brother, friend ..... They had a long layoff ..... They were fighting a cold or the flu ..... They suffered a cut ..... They just switched trainers ..... They got careless ..... They got caught with a lottery shot.

[keithmoonhangover]

Jack Johnson - I threw the fight
Ketchel - Too much opium.
Hearns - Overtrained
Witherspoon - I lost to get away from King (even though he would have earned a fortune from the Tyson fight and $$$$$$$ if he won)

[SenorPipino]

The dreaded managerial/promotional/personal problems.

[Bodyshot3]

The Hayemaker's busted and much, much discussed and photographed toe against Wlad K.

An untimely and freakish mid-fight injury that cruelly stopped Haye from unleashing the rapid, explosive bombs from all sorts of angles that had unhinged Wald in the past.The Sanders blueprint planned for Wlad denied by David's toe?

Or was David given a boxing lesson and kept on the outside and jabbed to bits for round-after-round and an excuse found that his toe had swelled-up when the fight was already done and dusted?

[scartissue]

The most oft-used I've heard is, "Well, I just had too hard of a time making weight, so I'm moving up. Yeah, that's the ticket, I couldn't make the weight anymore in this division."

[SenorPipino]

Hit Man Hearns insisted that training in Miami was responsible for his 1985 loss to Hagler.

He claimed that running on the beach sand actually drained the strength from his legs, and he was weak when he entered the Ceasar's Palace ring.

This forced him to forgo his original strategy of moving and boxing. Instead he had to stand his ground and slug.

An original excuse, I must say.

[Kalan]

That’s an interesting story about Hearns.

A trainer recommended I run on the beach to give me super endurance. After a few months my endurance was lower and I was slower. I used to time myself for the mile and 5 mile on a track every month to gauge my progress... I’d also check my heart rate after a minute and 2 minutes at the end of the run ... Sand running was killing my time and recovery.

It might be because you don't get the spring and traction off sand that you do on a track or cross country course – which is generally grass or the compacted soil of a dirt trail... Sand wears you out a little bit... It slows you down... You think you’re getting a fantastic workout because it’s more taxing. But that’s not always better .... The proof is in the results.

[gilgamesh]

Most frequent excuse is they really won and they were robbed...

Sometimes that one is more than just an excuse, but yeah I have seen guys use it when they obviously DID lose clear too.