Morikawa tried to deliver the reality of boxing
This is the only way this outcome to me makes sense—by thinking about all the ways you can do things right, and still somehow lose.
He probably witnessed this first hand in his stable of fighters. But I'm only guessing.
Whatever rage and disappointment we are feeling right now at the outcome, some form of this is also how it must feel to root for someone so deserving, only for them to lose so unfairly and disappointingly to someone so undeserving.