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Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 15:25
by Ruthless-RKO
Following on from Maggie’s thread.. this might be easier or harder.
There aren’t many boxers that the majority ‘like’..
I’m gonna start with Joe Calzaghe. I didn’t like him. Found him boring personally.
But was he more ‘liked’ by the majority?
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:09
by bigjack
Froch,couldn't stand listening to him,same with Hatton
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:12
by oogiebe
I was never a big fan of Joe Frazier.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:37
by tobyh5
Well as a boxing forum, I think we can have a solid amount saying AJ surely
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:39
by banjo
Bruno, national treasure? More like national fornicating embarrassment.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:39
by Old bones Ian
Johnny Tapia , i know he had a terrible beginning to his life, but i never got the adulation that was thrown at him.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:46
by bigjack
banjo wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 16:39
Bruno, national treasure? More like national effing embarrassment.
x2 always loved it when he got ko'd
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:48
by samwbr
Frank Bruno is as brave as they come, and more so now than ever before.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 16:52
by Nightmare Roy
Canelo, Peds, weight clauses, walking to the ring last against champions, general divaish dickishness.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 04 Aug 2019, 17:30
by Boxingcutsman
Here’s a couple I can name but the list could be so long tbh :
Floyd Mayweather ( don’t know him personally but know others who have met him, know him and been in gym with him, absolute weak bully of a man and complete pudendum in everyway
Ricky Hatton (fake, totally different than public persona)
BJS ( publicly and privately sh it bag)
Barry McGuigan (fake, privately a totally different man than the public persona he portrays, not nice at all)
On the opposite side of the coin 2 people I know personally and well who come across wrong to some and I know rub Some people up the wrong way but are absolute gentlemen and good people and not all for public show and are really good people genuinely, could name more.
Tyson fury
Adam booth
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 02:55
by Delta Jay
Prince Nas and Cotto.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:03
by keirw
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 16:52
Canelo, Peds, weight clauses, walking to the ring last against champions, general divaish dickishness.
100% agree.
The generous treatment from judges and the sheer favouritism of the WBC just make me dislike him more.
Also hate the fact that he has never bothered to learn English
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:11
by Fray Bentos
keirw wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:03
Also hate the fact that he has never bothered to learn English
Not digging you out but why should he? I am interested in your reasons...
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:39
by Delta Jay
Carlos wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:11
keirw wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:03
Also hate the fact that he has never bothered to learn English
Not digging you out but why should he? I am interested in your reasons...
His English is fine, he speaks it briefly now and then and doesn’t sound that bad. And sometimes you can tell he understands questions before they’re translated. I think he just doesn’t want to.
He really shouldn’t have to anyway.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:44
by Steveh583
I wouldn't say I 'don't like' herol Graham, but it irks me that there's this assumption that he was somehow unlucky or hard done by in boxing. He had lots of world title opportunities and didn't do the business.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:47
by Counter-puncher
I never really took to Pacquiao for some reason, not to the extent his career deserved anyway
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:58
by tigermoth87
Hatton
His man of the people thing seems out on. Plus, I saw him move quicker than Usain Bolt to dash into his car when a handful of fans spotted him at Sheff Utd vs Man City at Brammal Lane after the match.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 03:59
by KiwiRider
Nightmare Roy wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 16:52
Canelo, Peds, weight clauses, walking to the ring last against champions, general divaish dickishness.
I think he is only loved by Spanish speakers, the rest of us just wanna see someone bash the freckles off him
Edit; can I add to your list him claiming to be a SMW world title holder, because he beat the guy Callum Smith mullered in a round
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 04:42
by keirw
Carlos wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:11
keirw wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:03
Also hate the fact that he has never bothered to learn English
Not digging you out but why should he? I am interested in your reasons...
Hate is probably a strong word, but it frustrates me that promoters say that certain fights don't sell in the US because the fighters don't speak English.
Yet Canelo seems to make little to no effert to speak English and sells more in the US than anyone.
Obviously learning to speak English is only necessary for Eastern Europeans.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 04:55
by Ruthless-RKO
keirw wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 04:42
Carlos wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 03:11
Not digging you out but why should he? I am interested in your reasons...
Hate is probably a strong word, but it frustrates me that promoters say that certain fights don't sell in the US because the fighters don't speak English.
Yet Canelo seems to make little to no effert to speak English and sells more in the US than anyone.
Obviously learning to speak English is only necessary for Eastern Europeans.
Like a Loma has learned English. One post fight he was using a translator, the next he was speaking himself.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 06:05
by MasterG
I was going to make a similar post
Unloved boxers that their mothers loved to have loved that you don't like but would have loved to have loved.
But that's just silly.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 06:21
by keirw
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 04:55
keirw wrote: ↑05 Aug 2019, 04:42
Hate is probably a strong word, but it frustrates me that promoters say that certain fights don't sell in the US because the fighters don't speak English.
Yet Canelo seems to make little to no effert to speak English and sells more in the US than anyone.
Obviously learning to speak English is only necessary for Eastern Europeans.
Like a Loma has learned English. One post fight he was using a translator, the next he was speaking himself.
Loma is picking up the language very well, he struggles to understand different accents sometimes (as do we all) but he is making an effort.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 07:03
by keithmoonhangover
Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 15:25
Following on from Maggie’s thread.. this might be easier or harder.
There aren’t many boxers that the majority ‘like’..
I’m gonna start with Joe Calzaghe. I didn’t like him. Found him boring personally.
But was he more ‘liked’ by the majority?
John L Sullivan was a twat of a man.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 10:34
by TheGman
Boxingcutsman wrote: ↑04 Aug 2019, 17:30
Here’s a couple I can name but the list could be so long tbh :
Floyd Mayweather ( don’t know him personally but know others who have met him, know him and been in gym with him, absolute weak bully of a man and complete pudendum in everyway
Ricky Hatton (fake, totally different than public persona)
BJS ( publicly and privately sh it bag)
Barry McGuigan (fake, privately a totally different man than the public persona he portrays, not nice at all)
On the opposite side of the coin 2 people I know personally and well who come across wrong to some and I know rub Some people up the wrong way but are absolute gentlemen and good people and not all for public show and are really good people genuinely, could name more.
Tyson fury
Adam booth
I never used to like fury but i really like him since he came back. Adam smith iv always liked,he is like the calmest corner man in world boxing.
Re: Loved Boxers That YOU Don’t Like
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 11:47
by Gnome
I always thought Ali seemed like a bit of a prat, and the hero worship is a bit ott in my opinion.