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Wich fighter would you say can never win by the press/fans for me its audley harrison he has had a lot of hartbreakin coments lol

canonball1234 wrote:Wich fighter would you say can never win by the press/fans for me its audley harrison he has had a lot of hartbreakin coments lol

i think you have answered your own question mate lol

I was wonderin anymore in the past carnt be just poor audley

naz seems to get a rough ride because people dont like him personally they seem to talk down what he did in the ring whenever the best british boxers of recent times get brought up by the media he never gets a mention and for me hes right up there

Harrison.

Not many fighters have had to endure 20000 pissed up Mancs screaming ''you're sh1t and you know you are......'' at them.

naz talked a whole lot of crap before fights that some people didnt like(i loved it) but when the bell rang naz always came to the party audley just talked crap and when the bell rang he didnt even hang around to sing happy birthday

Joe Bugner and Jack Bodell were two who used to get some real stick. The boxers who tend to get the most abuse tend to be the loudest so Jack Bodell wasn't deserving of the level of abuse he got. (Nor was Bugner I suppose though he always liked to talk a good fight)

The crap Harrison gets is richly deserved in my opinion.

Definitely Audley in the last 20 years. Although I understand what Carlos is saying about the stick being deserved, the level of hate towards him going into the ring against Haye was truly scary - this is a British Olympic champion! And, understandably, it was even worse coming out.

Joe Bugner used to be very unpopular; in his pomp Eubank used to be hated by most 'men in the street'.

On a milder note - I seem to remember whenever Chris Eubank was on his ringwalks on occasions he got the bird - but there again he loved it.

Eubank's a good call.

Anthony Small - imo deserved all the abuse he got.

Naz talked but could back it up, he got out of there before pacman and morales took over people say naz would have beaten him but I deffo think pacman would have taken him to school

I think Liam Cameron and his trainer Chris Smedley should take a lot more stick than they do!!!

Chris yes not me spud u ugly cxxx lol

Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali were hated far more than Audley Harrison ever has been.

Audley has had a rough time over the years; Hector Camacho (after the Rosario bout) took a lot of flak but I don't think he gave a hoot; I think Audley is overly concerned.

What about Duran after no mas? He was hated in his home country for a while.

A hundred thousand Africans chanting Ali bomaye!.............. in the Rumble in the Jungle fight against Foreman. Must be close to the top of fighters getting the worst stick from fans ?

That was in Africa when Foreman had flown in with the dog the police used to suppress the population. By then he had won over a lot of people anyway, at points in his career he was definitely hated. He's a great example of someone turning from a villain to a hero. Jack Johnson would be my shout though, he acted in a way which wasn't expected by a black man in America in those times.

Carlos-Wigan wrote:Joe Bugner and Jack Bodell were two who used to get some real stick. The boxers who tend to get the most abuse tend to be the loudest so Jack Bodell wasn't deserving of the level of abuse he got. (Nor was Bugner I suppose though he always liked to talk a good fight)

The crap Harrison gets is richly deserved in my opinion.

Hugh Mcillvanney's book Mcillvanney on Boxing has a good piece about Bodell, centred around his defeat to Henry Cooper. It does make reference to a certain amount of derision toward Bodell, but sympathetically.

curtis wood wrote:naz seems to get a rough ride because people dont like him personally they seem to talk down what he did in the ring whenever the best british boxers of recent times get brought up by the media he never gets a mention and for me hes right up there

Thats because barrera completely schooled him

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Definitely Audley in the last 20 years. Although I understand what Carlos is saying about the stick being deserved, the level of hate towards him going into the ring against Haye was truly scary - this is a British Olympic champion! And, understandably, it was even worse coming out.

Joe Bugner used to be very unpopular; in his pomp Eubank used to be hated by most 'men in the street'.

Yeah but if you talk like harrison did before every fight and then not deliver time after time then you're asking for trouble!

lefty wrote:

curtis wood wrote:naz seems to get a rough ride because people dont like him personally they seem to talk down what he did in the ring whenever the best british boxers of recent times get brought up by the media he never gets a mention and for me hes right up there

Thats because barrera completely schooled him

That's what a lot of people who don't like Naseem say.

One defeat against a legend when you haven't been training properly isn't the sort of thing that leads me to ignore a fighters achievements. I wouldnt ignore Barrera's achievements because he was beaten by Khan. Naz was incredible, 31 ko's from 34 fights going into the Barrera fight. Who knows what he could have done had he stuck with Brendan Ingle, however, he did enough in the ring to deserve better than being solely and continually judged on one fight.