Why Some Defeats Actually Make a Fighter Better

They say a professional fighter learns much more from a loss than a win and it possibly has some truth to it when you look at great champions.

When everything is going well and you are battering and flattening everyone one, things are great, but you find out what kind of fighter you really are and what kind of man you are when things are not always going your way.

You also see those around you for who they are as well.

In many cases fighters after a defeat can see the dead wood in their teams quickly enough whether managers or advisors to fire quickly and so on.

Why Some Defeats Actually Make a Fighter Better

You can’t keep a champion down though and eventually, if he has it in him, he will rise again and find a way to win and come back.

That’s what the best fighters do in history, every great fighting man was always tested in history whether in fights or outside of the ring.

All of them. To a man. Ali, Mayweather, Hagler, Louis, Marciano and Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford. All of them.

Defeats in boxing are part and parcel for most.

One of the great champions in heavyweight boxing history Lennox Lewis lost twice as a professional, both to Oliver McCall and Hasim Rahman.

It was the best thing that ever happened to him.

He not only came back twice from both of those defeats he got back in there with both of them and not only beat them, knocked them both out.

Cold.

Champion once again. Once more. One more time.

He sailed into the sunset and left boxing on top at a high.

Something very few do.