My dog ate my homework. My alarm clock didn’t work… Excuses, excuses, excuses.

When you go to a Ju-Jitsu competition, what is the most common question you hear? “How did you do?”

That’s when you either hear a happy champion saying how they won, a realistic loser “It wasn’t my day. I have to train harder.” or very often you will hear the sore loser with their list of excuses of why they lost…

Jiu-Jitsu is a “game of inches”, as the popular saying goes so many little details can affect one’s performance on match day. The problem is that some BJJ competitors have such big egos that they will find every excuse in the book to justify why they lost.

Here are the most common worst excuses heard at various competitions. No explanations are needed…

35. Excuse: I lost in the first round to the guy that won gold…So technically I came second.

34. Excuse: He beat me on points, but at least he didn’t submit me.

33.Excuse: All he did was hold me down and stall the whole match.

32.Excuse: I’m going to home home and lift more weights! (Instead of focusing on technique…)

31.Excuse: The ref doesn’t know the rules!

30.Excuse: The ref DQ’d me for an imaginary leg reap..

29.Excuse: WTF!? I got DQ’d for ______ Since when can’t you do this?? (proceeds to demonstrate on you some move that is in fact prohibited under the rules).

28.Excuse: The ref didn’t give me points for _____________ (Proceeds to show you footage on camera…)

27.Excuse: The ref was my opponent’s teammate/instructor.

26.Excuse: That guy does the same thing every time! He’s so boring.

25.Excuses: The ref is a F*cking white belt!

24.Excuse: If it was GI (or No Gi) I would have destroyed him. I only train in Gi (or No Gi)…

23.Excuse: I’m a Vale Tudo fighter not a point fighter…

22.Excuse: I would have won if it wasn’t for my injured _________________

21.Excuse: I gassed out because _____________

20.Excuse: I spent the night before the competition banging some chick(s) (I heard one guy say this once lol)

19.Excuse: That dude was a _____ belt last year. How the hell is he still competing as a_____ belt! He’s sandbagging!

18.Excuse: I deserved to win. I was better!

17.Excuse: I’m forty years old with kids, a mortgage, a full tie job, a dog! My opponent is 10 years younger and trains all day long! If I did that I would have destroyed him.

16.Excuse: I had to drop too much weight, too fast.

15.Excuse: He only beat me because he has more experience.

14.Excuse: He felt weak. I was much stronger than him. (But..You still lost though.)

13.Excuse: He mounted me and I couldn’t breath!

12.Excuse (For Pro IBJJF athletes that got caught doping): I didn’t dope— I drank from someone else’s bottle/ took a supplement that had the banned ingredient/The masseuse rubbed testosterone cream on me without my knowledge etc….

11.Excuse: He used to wrestle back in middle school/ is a Judo green belt.

10.Excuse: I’m a MUCH better technician. He’s just stronger.

9.Excuse: A BJJ tournament doesn’t mean shit to me…I train UFC!

8.Excuse: He beat me by an advantage. There are no advantages on the street! I would have kicked his ass!

7.Excuse: I beat this dude all the time in the academy!

6.Excuse: He beat me but hey, I drive a nice car, have a hot wife and make 200$K a year! That dude is a loser.

5.Excuse: If I didn’t have to wait all day long without eating anything, I would have won…

4.Excuse: He felt so strong! He’s on steroids!

3.Excuse: They didn’t give me enough time to rest after my first match. That’s why I lost.

2.Excuse: He caught me in a cheap move. In a leg lock The only reason he beat me with that is because we don’t train leg locks in my academy…

1.Excuse: He was very strong and had zero technique.