Joshua showed great sportsmanship after losing, BUT...

SAPFO
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Re: Joshua showed great sportsmanship after losing, BUT...

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It’s a hill to climb now, a personal challenge. Hopefully he rises to it.
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Re: Joshua showed great sportsmanship after losing, BUT...

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stevec@france wrote: 02 Jun 2019, 11:24 concussion ??
I think he was concussed too, although this has no bearings on his classy nature

He deserves great respect for the way he conducted himself in the aftermath.

A lot of fighters can learn from him in that respect.
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SAPFO wrote: 02 Jun 2019, 16:35 It’s a hill to climb now, a personal challenge. Hopefully he rises to it.
Too true.
It's not the loss, but how you come back from it.
All my favourite fighters have lost.
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Re: Joshua showed great sportsmanship after losing, BUT...

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Syntax Error wrote: 02 Jun 2019, 16:49 I think he was concussed too, although this has no bearings on his classy nature

He deserves great respect for the way he conducted himself in the aftermath.

A lot of fighters can learn from him in that respect.


It reminded me of the way Tony Bellew behaved towards Usyk after Usyk beat him, almost overdoing his congratulations and good sportsmanship. Bellew was there doing some announcing last night and (future heavyweight champ) Oleksander Usyk was in the audience. All three good guys.
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