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Deontay Wilder and Donald Trump: Reflections on the Difficulty of Accepting Failure
Redefining success can help us to cope with failure.
I cringed together with the majority of boxing fans when I recently watched a video of ex-heavyweight boxing world champion Deontay Wilder, which he released on his Instagram, in which he makes some controversial excuses for his defeat to Tyson Fury in their February 2020 bout.
In the video, Wilder accuses Fury of hiding “egg weights” in his gloves and claims that the shape of the dent in the side of his head left by one of Fury’s punches is evidence of this. He goes on to accuse his rival of purposefully having his gloves pulled down into an improper position so that he could scratch his ears, explaining that this was why he was bleeding from one of his ears during the bout.
A few days after Wilder posted his Instagram video he did an interview with 78SPORTSTV in which he further added to his list of outlandish excuses, claiming that his former trainer Mark Breland had “spiked” his water with “a muscle relaxant or something like that” before the Tyson Fury fight.
As has been made clear by those in the boxing community who are knowledgeable about how high-levels fights such as Wilder’s against Fury are organized; it would have been nigh on…
