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I know fighters have done this for years but it does grate after a while…

Both Williams and Harrison did now not ‘prepare correctly’, for their December farce. Any credibility these guys had left, and it was very little, must now be gone.

I hope Danny ‘I’m feeling right this time but wasn’t right last time’ Williams gets flattened by Skelton. As for Harrison, I guess I’ll give anyone a chance (and he used his up in the Williams debacle which was an embarrassment to me as I recommended that some of my colleagues watch the fight and I don’t think they will be asking me for recommendations on what to watch on a Saturday night ever again) so let’s see if he can produce something more uplifting now he is propping up the bar in the last chance saloon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4721870.stm - For Williams bullshit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4734192.stm - For Audley's bullcrap.

I was going to reply to this but I've broken a fingernail and will have to take some time off to recuperate... but I'll be in shape by next time!!!...

How many times has a boxer just said "I don't want to make any excuses." and just left it at that?

I've heard it a few times, but more often than not it's followed by a "but....."

If you need an excuse, make it a good one - Trevor Berbick once said he'd lost because he'd been drugged the night before, via the air vent in his hotel room.

No-one believed him but A for effort

Not so much an excuse, but when asked what he did differently in preparation for his win over Iran Barclay in 1989, Duran replied: "I didn't whack off".

There you go Danny/Aud - stoke those animalistic fires in your belly by keeping your hands off your 'warrior' during training.
If either could harness the spiteful beligerance of Duran into their performaces, they might actually go somewhere...

MightyWarrior wrote:How many times has a boxer just said "I don't want to make any excuses." and just left it at that?

I've heard it a few times, but more often than not it's followed by a "but....."

If you need an excuse, make it a good one - Trevor Berbick once said he'd lost because he'd been drugged the night before, via the air vent in his hotel room.

No-one believed him but A for effort

Maybe his mate passed his crack pipe through the ventilation duct from the adjoining room?

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
Maybe his mate passed his crack pipe through the ventilation duct from the adjoining room?

Wouldn't surprise me he was always a bit of a fruit cake. Think he's a preacher now. Didn't he have a car park brawl with Larry Holmes once? Chasing each other over the roofs of cars like something out of Starskey & Hutch

JC Chavez used to make excuses even when he won, which was often.

TerribleTerry wrote:Not so much an excuse, but when asked what he did differently in preparation for his win over Iran Barclay in 1989, Duran replied: "I didn't whack off".

There you go Danny/Aud - stoke those animalistic fires in your belly by keeping your hands off your 'warrior' during training.
If either could harness the spiteful beligerance of Duran into their performaces, they might actually go somewhere...

No wonder Duran always had a snarl on his face!...

I see I instigated an amusing thread....

I remember Hamed once saying after a lucklustre performance (I think his win over Medina) "Not making excuses right but I had a bit of a cold" which clearly is an excuse.

Boxers clearly are the most delusional of all sportsmen, I guess it's how they push themselves to the extremes that they do...

MightyWarrior wrote:JC Chavez used to make excuses even when he won, which was often.

JC Superstar was my first 'hero' in boxing and the fighter who cemented my love for the sport above all others.

I was put off him a bit towards the end when the excuses excuses started to flow more regularly than his double left hook, I have to say.

That one about Trevor Berbick is a corker.


Have to say true sportsman Richie Woodhall admitted he thought he lost against Glenn Catley. How many do that???

Daniel Judah said after his fight against Glen Johnson, that he thought Johnson was robbed and should have won.

Someone connected with Clinton Woods told me that Woods said to his team after the fight that he knew Johnson should have gotten the decision.

Amazing when you think that JC Chavez was a terrible drunkard that he did so well, he used to get absolutely bladdered in between fights.

Of course you have Zab Judahs recent loss where his reason was that Don King is out to get him

jamesmcdonnell wrote: Amazing when you think that JC Chavez was a terrible drunkard that he did so well, he used to get absolutely bladdered in between fights.

Chavez certainly did enjoy a cerveza of two between fights from the stories I have heard!

There was a photo on the front of BN the week after the Woodhall-Catley fight with Ritchie glumly giving overhis belt to Glenn. He was class all the way, was Ritchie, without a shadow of a doubt..

Tommy Hurricane Jackson blaming a loss on " too much fresh air inhaled during roadwork". pretty good one.

Joe Calzaghe on March 5th - "Broken knuckle/bad back/leaves on the track"

Jeff Lacy on March 5th - "I didn't realise he slapped that hard."

Joe could be a pimp after he retires with that slap.

Goz wrote:I know fighters have done this for years but it does grate after a while…

Both Williams and Harrison did now not ‘prepare correctly’, for their December farce. Any credibility these guys had left, and it was very little, must now be gone.

I hope Danny ‘I’m feeling right this time but wasn’t right last time’ Williams gets flattened by Skelton. As for Harrison, I guess I’ll give anyone a chance (and he used his up in the Williams debacle which was an embarrassment to me as I recommended that some of my colleagues watch the fight and I don’t think they will be asking me for recommendations on what to watch on a Saturday night ever again) so let’s see if he can produce something more uplifting now he is propping up the bar in the last chance saloon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4721870.stm - For Williams bullshit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4734192.stm - For Audley's bullcrap.

Danny Williams catchphrase; "I wasn't at my best time."

Carl Froch on Friday

"i was a bit lacksadaisy"

Inventing new words as an excuse is top draw

"Honey, I forgot to duck"

Jack Dempsey to his wife Nancy, after his fight with Tunney

topper123 wrote:"Honey, I forgot to duck"

Jack Dempsey to his wife Nancy, after his fight with Tunney

Cant quite remember if its right, but I kind of remember Rocky Graziano saying "I zigged when I shoulda zagged" following his KO loss at the hands of Ray Robinson.

Zab Judah's rant after his loss to Baldomir was sweet.
"I dont wanna make excuses but Don f**ked up"

Goz wrote:I know fighters have done this for years but it does grate after a while…

Both Williams and Harrison did now not ‘prepare correctly’, for their December farce. Any credibility these guys had left, and it was very little, must now be gone.

I hope Danny ‘I’m feeling right this time but wasn’t right last time’ Williams gets flattened by Skelton. As for Harrison, I guess I’ll give anyone a chance (and he used his up in the Williams debacle which was an embarrassment to me as I recommended that some of my colleagues watch the fight and I don’t think they will be asking me for recommendations on what to watch on a Saturday night ever again) so let’s see if he can produce something more uplifting now he is propping up the bar in the last chance saloon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4721870.stm - For Williams bullshit.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4734192.stm - For Audley's bullcrap.

They're both just clutching at very small straws.

Loynesy wrote:Carl Froch on Friday

"i was a bit lacksadaisy"

Inventing new words as an excuse is top draw

Ha ha yeah i was wondering what he was on about as well, i thought he said "I was a big lapsy daisy" As for the Trevor Berbick excuse i also read somewhere he claimed to have been affected by poisened fruit as well, "I never touched fruit again before fights" Good old Trev