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apart from being 'an unbranded range animal' if you look up maverick in the dictionary you will see 'Someone who refuses to play by the rules. he/she isn't scared to cross the line of conformity. but their unorthodox tactics get results!'

as far as boxers go i would consider the following to be 'mavericks'

Naseem Hamed
Chris Eubank

as far as other sportsmen go......other mavericks would be

Gazza
Nastase
McEnroe

any thoughts on this one anyone?

John Daly surely...

Football:
Cantona
De Canio
George Best
Robin Friday

Boxing:
Kirkland Laing
Johnny Tapia
Ricardo Mayorga

MMA:
Josh Barnett
Chris Leben

Sure there are plenty of others, but those are the ones that spring immediately to mind.

shit....Mike Tyson of course!!

alex higgins

rocket ronny

john mcenroe

arton senna

lewis hamilton

jimmy white too....i guess snooker has had a few of them, trying to add razzamatazz into a seemingly boring mundane sport.

Eric Bristow
Adrian Lewis (both darts)

Ian Botham
Kevin Peiterson (cricket)

peiterson???

flintoff id of thought.

phil tuffnell 8) D

hurlock wrote:peiterson???

flintoff id of thought.

phil tuffnell 8) D

Peterson when he batted left handed against the kiwis and refused to play for Hampshire because he was living too far away in chelsea - he didn't have a team for a year - no cricketer has done that and played for his country.

Zinedine Zidane in football, an absolute maestro, yet a bit of a wild one at heart.

Muhammad Ali definitely fits the mould.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbUqhxPGFXY



if i'm not much mistaken, we're in the presence of a maverick

also. Joey Barton....

jtowen06 wrote:also. Joey Barton....

he's just a cock like diouf :!:

hardly gazza is he.

Barton talks a lot of sense about football and footballers (something diouf has never done) but lets himself down with, mostly off the pitch, actions (stubbing peoples eyes with cigars....)