Which excuses did you really buy into?

[Spicoli]

Long lasting current one would have to be the Clottey "Ouch my wittle hand" Vs.Margarito..........tired.Ist he said he hurt hand in the 4th round,then he said he injured BOTH hands 2 weeks prior to fight....yawn.

I vaguely recall Anthony Hembrick blaming a Bad haircut for throwing off his equilibrium in a fight he lost

[Fenster]

Most excuses are clearly just bullshit because the fighter has badly underperformed.

BUT

I believe ALL boxers deserve a little leeway. One loss in boxing is very harmful, it can ruin/end a career.. whereas in other sports, GREATS can lose multilpe times on the bounce without harming their status

[Lance Uppercut]

Evander Holyfield was a fighter that rarely ever made excuses and he never became a flopper after getting hit low(I.E. Hopkins, Ruiz or Juhda)

[rene69]

Evander Holyfield was a fighter that rarely ever made excuses and he never became a flopper after getting hit low(I.E. Hopkins, Ruiz or Juhda)

You're right about that. I remember those guys looking like they got shot in the balls to get the fight stopped.

[Put Em' Up]

I believed the excuse for the guy that ran out of the ring to go s*** mid fight. Can't remember his name but it had to be serious lol

[SigmaMu]

My all time favorite is....


November 04, 2006
Floyd claimed he broke his hand during his fight against Carlos Baldomir. (Why he ran all night)
I know better and had the scoop. This was the night Floyd wore pink. (breast cancer my ass)

Gotta’ love those nails.
We all know Floyd is a little fruity He has Leonard Ellerbe rubbing him everywhere they go


I don't remember seeing Floyd in a cast after this fight, that is for sure.

[Kel]

My all time favorite is....


November 04, 2006
Floyd claimed he broke his hand during his fight against Carlos Baldomir. (Why he ran all night)
I know better and had the scoop. This was the night Floyd wore pink. (breast cancer my ass)

Gotta’ love those nails.
We all know Floyd is a little fruity He has Leonard Ellerbe rubbing him everywhere they go


I don't remember seeing Floyd in a cast after this fight, that is for sure.

You really bought into that shit?

[Thread Stealer]

Evander Holyfield was a fighter that rarely ever made excuses and he never became a flopper after getting hit low(I.E. Hopkins, Ruiz or Juhda)

Holyfield? The guy always had some kind of ailment that hindered his performance.

The Czyz fight there were ailments, the Moorer "heart attack" (Holyfield later said it was when the hospital gave him too much morphine), the hepatitis against Bowe (Holyfield said nothing about feeling sick until a couple months later), the busted eardrum against Ruiz, the leg cramps against Lewis, "Everyone knows I won the fight" after the Lewis rematch, etc...

I think Holyfield even claimed he won the first fight against Lewis.

[C.J.Rock]

Most excuses are clearly just bullshit because the fighter has badly underperformed.

BUT

I believe ALL boxers deserve a little leeway. One loss in boxing is very harmful, it can ruin/end a career.. whereas in other sports, GREATS can lose multilpe times on the bounce without harming their status

LOL Randall Tex Cobb summed it up perfectly when he asked
" Whats the difference in tennis and boxing

In tennis yoiu screw up its 15 love screw up in boxing and your ass is on the canvas darlin LOL

[CutMeMick]

Didn't Tarver also say he was drugged?

[ICB]

Didn't Tarver also say he was drugged?

Yea against Bernard Hopkins if i remember right.

[El Gamo]

Can't stand Clottey's crying. Wsa the worst for me especially considering his hand was fractured not broken and TOny had injuries coming into the fight but fought like a warrior without crying about it.

The ones I thought had an effect: Williams having an off night v Quintana the first time. Gatti's injuries(the guy was a warrior). Can't think of any others.

[luvfightgame]

I lost a couple fights to a big time smack talker. I was forced into using the player 2 control rather than the player 1 control like usual. So everything was backward. We switched controls and I ktfo him.

[Thread Stealer]

I believe Vinny Paz's "I came down too fast from my caffeine high" against Roy Jones. Also, George Foreman's "I was about to knock Ali out but I got distracted because I saw my friend in the audience betray me by rooting for Ali" was dead on. And Hector Camacho Sr's "I was still bothered by a mean look that my mother gave me in the dressing room" excuse for his performance against Edwin Rosario.


No seriously, I rarely buy the excuses. One thing I might buy was the Fan Man crashing down. After a great previous two rounds for Holyfield, Bowe seemed to have been turning things around in round 7 and was having an excellent round, jabbing Holyfield seemingly at will before Fan Man crashed down. Bowe ended up losing round 7 on the cards when Holyfield did better after the break, and Bowe lost the title by 1 and 2 pts, after his pregnant wife got carried out of the arena on a stretcher.