Worst Excuses After A Loss

We've heard a lot of recent talk about Haye potentially fighting Vitali and a fair few posters (with reason) go back to his fight with Wlad and his infamous "Little Toe" excuse.

Truss mentioned Spinks' knee "injury" before the Tyson fight.

Golota claimed his knee was knackered after Lewis annihilated him.

Calzaghe blamed brittle hands after the David Starie debacle (probably fair TBH).

Khan was actually pretty fair after being punched out by Garcia, but he did whine & bleat about the Peterson fight, citing biased refereeing and "The man in the hat".

What's the worst excuse you've heard?

Bounce - Golota had a fit prior to his lewis fight and a painkilling injection for his knee which rendered him dizzy before he stepped in the ring. That was genuine excuse

I stand corrected Shah - I have never heard (or read) that one before.

After being knocked out against Bith Tarver and Johnson Roy Jones stated it was because 'he couldn't get up for this guy'.

No Roy, you couldn't get up after this guy hit you...

Manny's wrong socks and cramps for Morales and Marquez defeat.

Hayes broken toe against Wlad.

How's this for an excuse, as described by Boxrec :

Andrew Lewis vs Denny Dalton

Lewis down in the 4th round. Lewis was ahead on all cards but retired from the fight because of an urgent need to use the restroom. Lewis blamed his stomach discomfort on a pre-fight milkshake.

Not so much 'Six Heads' Lewis as 'Turtle's Head' Lewis.



I think I remember him saying something along the lines of "It was better to take the loss than to crap all down my legs"...

Paraphrasing here (i.e. taking liberties): -

"I had him just where I wanted him and then he hit me" Audley Harrison against David Haye

I think Carl Froch using the excuse of a volcano erupting in Iceland for his loss to Kessler has to be right up there as one of the worst of modern times!

Super D Boon wrote:I think Carl Froch using the excuse of a volcano erupting in Iceland for his loss to Kessler has to be right up there as one of the worst of modern times!

But historically correct!! Yeah, I agree. That was pretty bad!

"I forgot to duck". Honeyghan after the Starling lesson.

Union Cane wrote:How's this for an excuse, as described by Boxrec :

Andrew Lewis vs Denny Dalton

Lewis down in the 4th round. Lewis was ahead on all cards but retired from the fight because of an urgent need to use the restroom. Lewis blamed his stomach discomfort on a pre-fight milkshake.

You might say that he quit on his stool....

Ba-boom.

I'm honestly suprised it doesn't happen more often, usually nerves before the fight will flush everything out but seems he had a sneaky milkshake.

didn't Wlad say he was drugged after one of his losses. If it isn't true (and there is always a chance it might be) then that's pretty bad

I can't place the name, but didn't someone say after a loss that he was trying to break the other guy's hand with his chin?

Its been said already, but it needs to be reiterated...

David haye with the broken pinky toe.

Didn't Tyson once say he was fighting with a broken back?

Henry Cooper's "the sun was in my eyes" excuse is certainly one of the more memorable ones. I'm surprised 'Enry didn't claim his hair was in his eyes at some stage, so fanciful were his excuses now and then.

Speaking of Tyson, Holmes claimed hat he was only knocked out by him because his right hand got caught in the ropes a moment before Tyson flattened him at the end of the fourth. Ol' 'Larry Big Pants' as LRR called him did get his glove caught, that much is true, but he was a beaten man long before that moment.

Omar Chavez has just come out and blamed his loss at the weekend to Paez Jr on 'painful leg cramps'...

http://www.boxingscene.com/chavez-says-leg-cramps-affected-him-paez-defeat--55276

quentins_monkey wrote:Omar Chavez has just come out and blamed his loss at the weekend to Paez Jr on 'painful leg cramps'...

http://www.boxingscene.com/chavez-says-leg-cramps-affected-him-paez-defeat--55276

Love that on. To me it's like saying "me steroids wore off. NOT FAIR!"

alma wrote:

ShahenshahG wrote:Bounce - Golota had a fit prior to his lewis fight and a painkilling injection for his knee which rendered him dizzy before he stepped in the ring. That was genuine excuse

as someone with epilepsy I find the above highly unlikely.

He's not epileptic - it was some sort of reaction to the medicine

Pacquiao: Leg cramps, car crash, stomach ulcer, cold.......

All these excuses are made after he WINS!!!!

Yeah Wlad said his water was tampered with in his hotel after the loss to Brewster and i'm sure Tyson fought with a broken back against Etienne, and won. Lol. Can't use smilies at the moment.

Although he, of course, eventually won, I'm sure Lennox Lewis claimed he didn't open up against the bubbling Oliver McCall because McCall's shorts were of a style and colour that were casting some kind of a spell on him and putting him off.

Pac complained of being weak after a random test prior to fighting Morales.

alanqlm wrote:Didn't Tyson once say he was fighting with a broken back?

I think that was after he won a fight.

Funny as hell interview though.

"Mike, were you really sick this week, what was the problem?"

"I broke my back. My back is broken."

"A vertebra? Or..."

"No, spinal."

Union Cane wrote:"Mike, were you really sick this week, what was the problem?"

"I broke my back. My back is broken."

"A vertebra? Or..."

"No, spinal."

It was the way he said it and the look on his face that did me.

Looked like he was about to burst into tears.

Seanusarrilius wrote:didn't Wlad say he was drugged after one of his losses. If it isn't true (and there is always a chance it might be) then that's pretty bad

Something happened there, i know he threw a lot of punches in the first four rounds but then again he always did back then and never looked remotely gassed to late on he also took no punishment until the fifth round. Always thought there was something funny about that fight.

Not for me, he's a different fighter now, took it to another level. It was fear of being tagged after Sanders that had him burning too much energy. He seems a lot more relaxed these last couple of years.

monty junior wrote:

Seanusarrilius wrote:didn't Wlad say he was drugged after one of his losses. If it isn't true (and there is always a chance it might be) then that's pretty bad

Something happened there, i know he threw a lot of punches in the first four rounds but then again he always did back then and never looked remotely gassed to late on he also took no punishment until the fifth round. Always thought there was something funny about that fight.

Yeah he was definately out of sorts for that fight. There were alot of consiracy theories. Not sure if it was neccessarily foul play involved but Wlad was dead on his feet by the mid rounds rather inexplicably. Might have just been an illness picked up though.

There was alot of controversy surrounding it at the time though because betting odds swung massively on the casino exchanges pre fight, Wlads urine and blood samples were found to have been destroyed upon request for further testing and supposedly access had been given to Wlads training and dressing room facilities that was supposed to be reserved only for Klitschko team memebers.

Never new there was that much controversy sorrounding the fight, i knew about the access backstage etc. I'm sure they reckoned their water had been tampered.

There was no contraversy. It was a lame excuse like the OP requests

TheMackemMawler wrote:There was no contraversy. It was a lame excuse like the OP requests

Thee was alot of controversy. They requested a formal investigation.

Governing bodies look after "champs". Amir was a champion up untill a week ago.

What does that mean? Amir Khan was champion until he faced a juiced up opponent, lost on a SD, had two points deducted for pushing while an unauthorized man in a hat sat and chatted to judges.

Wlad wasnt a champion when he fought Brewster either incidentally.

Lame excuse from Wladimir, he got knocked out yet again and had to try and find a poor excuse to use, that was the best he came up with.

What was Jabmachine excuse when Kell Brook beat him in sparring? Oh, I remember now, he had a really good one. It never happened.

Who is Jans?

Jan Zaveck probably.

Cheers

manos de piedra wrote:What does that mean? Amir Khan was champion until he faced a juiced up opponent, lost on a SD, had two points deducted for pushing while an unauthorized man in a hat sat and chatted to judges.

Wlad wasnt a champion when he fought Brewster either incidentally.

I have no clue. Four litres of Pear cider and a bbq when i wrote it.

TheMackemMawler wrote:

manos de piedra wrote:What does that mean? Amir Khan was champion until he faced a juiced up opponent, lost on a SD, had two points deducted for pushing while an unauthorized man in a hat sat and chatted to judges.

Wlad wasnt a champion when he fought Brewster either incidentally.

I have no clue. Four litres of Pear cider and a bbq when i wrote it.

Are you nicking my excuses now?

Hayes broken toe was so much as a lame excuse as a badly timed excuse- if he had just said that he lost to a better man on the night, and then perhaps let the story of the toe emerge afew months down the line ohe wouldn't have looked like such a prat, but as it was it looked like he had his excuse for losing ready before the first punch was thrown.

azania wrote:

TheMackemMawler wrote:

manos de piedra wrote:What does that mean? Amir Khan was champion until he faced a juiced up opponent, lost on a SD, had two points deducted for pushing while an unauthorized man in a hat sat and chatted to judges.

Wlad wasnt a champion when he fought Brewster either incidentally.

I have no clue. Four litres of Pear cider and a bbq when i wrote it.

Are you nicking my excuses now?

Do you have a penchant for coming on here drunk?

Jabmachine guys, sorry

I don't get it

TheMackemMawler wrote:

azania wrote:

TheMackemMawler wrote:

manos de piedra wrote:What does that mean? Amir Khan was champion until he faced a juiced up opponent, lost on a SD, had two points deducted for pushing while an unauthorized man in a hat sat and chatted to judges.

Wlad wasnt a champion when he fought Brewster either incidentally.

I have no clue. Four litres of Pear cider and a bbq when i wrote it.

Are you nicking my excuses now?

Do you have a penchant for coming on here drunk?

Do you think my stuff can be written by someone sober?

I'll toast to that!

Taken this from another website, so not sure how true it is...

Bute defeated you previously. Can you win a return bout? Why?

Yes I can win a return bout. Last time I fought Bute, I was very sick and almost drowned in the hotel pool the day before my fight. I never learnt how swim and decided to cool down after training. I didn’t realize there was a deep end of the pool and jumped straight in. I know I can beat Bute and would not go near any swimming pools before the fight!