Fighters who dined out on a loss

[Master]

Jorge Luis Gonzales losing to Bowe.

Mason losing to Lennox Lewis.

Hearns losing to Leonard (and then Hagler)

[Memphis]

Mason's career was definitely defined by the Lewis loss. Not sure about dining out on it thought, he almost went blind didn't he?

Think more Henry Cooper. No one cares that he won the Lonsdale belt a hundred times. He knocked down Clay God dammit and gave a great account of himself in a plucky loss.

[p4pking]

I had just typed out an essay and then deleted it, Henry cooper is exactly the kind of guy who I couldn’t think of. Plenty of greats lost lots, but they are almost never defined or served by those fights. “Dined out on” implies that the guy was better off for losing the fight, in the scheme of things.

[Spicoli]

Nice twist on it topic. Maybe a guy like Razor Ruddock post Tyson I. But that Dokes KO still stands out.

[imp]

Jeff Lacey.

Must hurt..no one seems to remember anything before or after the JC fight.

[Fenster]

Felix Sturm - won about 50 "world" title fights yet always remembered as the guy who got shafted by Oscar (and then ironically accused of constantly shafting every visitor to Germany).

[Master]

Buster Douglas dined out on his loss to Holyfield to the extent that he nearly died of overeating.

[ryanman]

Jeff Lacey.

Must hurt..no one seems to remember anything before or after the JC fight.

Lacy definitely isn't dining out on that loss.

[ryanman]

@Memphis you've fucked it mate. Is it dined out on or defined by? People have enough problems understanding thread topics without you adding to it.