1.   Both defending champions lost the privilege of repeating because they let fearfulness interfere with fierceness.

2.   Earnhardt stayed in for two tires, and the seven-time Cup champion had lost contact with the lead pack when he exited the pits.

3.   No contest in this category, even though the defending champion lost two of his last three races.

4.   So each has something invested in seeing the World Boxing Association champion lose, yet both believe that is all but impossible.

5.   The defending champion lost a mere seven games in winning her first three matches.

6.   The former world champions have lost only one bout each.

7.   The two-time defending World Series champions lost four games in their backyard in emphatic fashion and trudged around like shadows of their former selves.

8.   Without Irvin, the defending Super Bowl champions lost three of their first four games before beating the Eagles.

9.   Another Olympic champion also lost.

10.   Battered by injuries, the defending champions have lost four of their six exhibition games.