Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20160110165745/@comment-26872876-20160110193202

Urano23 wrote: When did Yang hurt his pride? It's pretty clear he wanted to lose that fight and even if he didn't throw the match, he didn't seem upset at all about losing in the last episode.

The only time he seemed mad for losing was when he attacked Yang and that was a hallucination. This^

The only way that idea really works is if his pride was hurt because he had to intentionally lose. But I don't see Mercury having that problem.