That is the thing about losing: people in dogs seem to think it means the dog is no good if he loses ... or is somehow "less than" another dog that never lost.

"Oh, if so-and-so lost, then he can't possibly be as good as X, who never lost."

In some cases this could be true, in others nothing could be further from the truth.

The dog who lost to one opponent may whip the daylights out of some other dog who never lost.

Three things are true:

1) Styles make fights, and one dog's style may have been a problem for Silver, but the next several dogs were not;
2) Sometimes dogs are "off" one night, and have bad days just like anything else;
3) Truly great dogs learn and improve, and sometimes could not overcome a difficulty they first faced ... but know how to handle it the next time.

Jack