Fighter's Excuses....Necessary or Pointless?

  "To be the man you have to beat the man". Fighters step into the ring or cage in order to see who is the better fighter on that night in question. Each fighter trains to the best of their ability to come out victorious on that night, hoping to prove they are the man because they beat the man to gain a win. In training for the fight, fighters suffer bruises and injuries during the process to make themselves better prepared to go to war for at least three rounds with each round lasting five minutes.

  On fight night, a fighter may never be 100 percent healthy for the fight, but they are ready to give 110 percent of themselves in that fight. Unfortunately, there has to be a winner and a loser no matter how good each fighter performs. As a fighter, you go into the fight with every intention to win, but sometimes it does not work that way. The commentator interviews the winner and then sometimes has a chance to get a quick thought from the loser on what went wrong. Now comes the crying, alibis, and what if's.

  Excuses are for losers because they are full of them. Real winners take the loss and use it as a motivational tool to do better next time. They look at the loss as an education on being better prepared. Real winners congratulate their opponent for showing up and putting on a great fight and pushing them to limits they may have never been pushed to. Real winners are eager to get right back in the gym and train harder to make sure the outcome of their next fight is in their favor. Losers tell stories of delusion and come up with all sorts of things that happened to them leading up to fight night. I had the flu, my wife kept yelling at me, the kids would not stop crying, my training partners did not show up. These excuses may have hurt their training methods, but then why go through with the fight if you were not ready and able to compete properly.

  You would have been better calling off the fight and get yourself together, then fighting lack luster and now finding it necessary to come up with excuses. Come to fight or stay home and let the real fighters have that chance to showcase their talents. No shame in losing to a better fighter on that night. The shame comes when you make excuses to the fans, your family, and most importantly yourself for your not being fully prepared to fight and give it your all.