By Gavin Howie: Bouncing back from defeat can sometimes do more good than victory and shows the test of character more than victory ever does.
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In recent times we have had some big, surprising losses – Fury, Joshua, Bivol, but all of them can and have it in them to come back.
Growing up I followed the greats in the late 90s and early 00s and saw the likes of Mike Tyson live, and there was one clear leader in this division – Lennox Lewis.
This was a man who had been choked by boxers twice in history and couldn’t get his boots on, but each time he wanted revenge and got it. He will go down in history without the great Rocky Marciano to defeat every heavyweight they ever fought.
Daniel Dubois, who recently came back from losses to Joe Joyce and Oleksandr Usyk, still had it in him to pick himself up and take on and defeat the biggest draw in British sport in Anthony Joshua.
The great Bernhard Hopkins lost his very first fight at Light Heavyweight and came back, albeit a weight down, to become one of the greatest middleweight champions of all time.
One of my favorite success stories in British boxing is Johnny Nelson who was a boxer who lacked confidence but just needed that win to gain momentum and after losing his first 3 professional fights he finished career as a champion with 20 wins and without defeat.
A loss is never the end it is made out to be and it can be the make or break of you.
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