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Boxers you cannot be bothered rooting for or care for anymore.. The reason behind it?

For me, I want to say Zurdo Ramirez. After he beat AA by lop-sided decision to win the belt, I thought, yes, here comes a meaningful reign.

Then as the opponents came, it just went trash.. The 2 Hart fights were close and good fights, but apart from that, it was just bad... Now he is at LHW, doesn't want to fight anyone. Now I hear his wife, who is his manager, is demanding too much money.

I don't care for him anymore..

I actually hope he loses his next fight.

Anymore??

Luis Nery? Jermall? Spence?

Canelo, the usual reasons.

A friend of mine has a similar network of friends in Mexico. I hear he is a really good guy, and he's obviously a great fighter. But I just can't support everything that goes on with the machine that maintains his position on top.

I'm curious why you wrote Spence, though.

Terence Crawford.

He sabotaged his own career by signing his contract extension with Top Rank in 2018 in order to gain the $3m per fight guarantee, because he made this appallingly poor business decision knowing full-well that this would scupper the possibility of him facing the vast majority of his big-name welterweight peers.

There’s an old saying, which clearly applies to Crawford:

• "Talent" is useless unless it’s proven…. And "potential" is useless unless it’s fulfilled!”

And this is precisely the reason why Terence Crawford has become an irrelevant name in the 147lbs scene, because he’s not facing top-tier opposition. Hype alone is simply not enough to justify his “fearsome” reputation (at least not at welterweight)!

Gervonta Davis. Well, i like Gervonta Davis as a boxer, he is pretty entertaining. I was big fan of him in 2017, when he has extraordinary performances against good oponents. But im hoping he loses soon, not because im a hater, but that pack of thugs behind him are pure evil for his career. Maybe loss on his record will woke him up

Finkel wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 08:43 I'm curious why you wrote Spence, though.

Not me personally. I've read a bit about due to his recent crash etc.. Not wearing seat belt, imagine there was more people involved. etc.

I dont root for anyone but there are fighters who i just dont watch currently

Andrade - boring and without any interesting fights.

Mw charlo - irrelevant with pbc

Crawford- see charlo only with espn. He hasnt fought an interesting opponent in years

Ive almost forgot - Billy Joe Saunders

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 10:19

Finkel wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 08:43 I'm curious why you wrote Spence, though.

Not me personally. I've read a bit about due to his recent crash etc.. Not wearing seat belt, imagine there was more people involved. etc.

Ah okay, fair enough
I wondered if it was due to that.
I think people forget about such things quite quickly. There have been other sports stars who have totalled super cars and were lucky to walk away relatively unscathed. Christiano Ronaldo for example.

Joseph Parker is irritating me. It seems like he doesn't want to even try to be the best. His last 2 opponents (Alex Leapai and Alexander Flores) are no where near the top in the division. And he's now on another 6 month layoff with no scheduled fights in the future. He needs to get active (against a real opponent) or he risks being dropped from the world rankings altogether.

I don't know if there's any I'm "done with" exactly because there are a lot of guys I hate, but would still watch.

chuck9788 wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 11:24 Joseph Parker is irritating me. It seems like he doesn't want to even try to be the best. His last 2 opponents (Alex Leapai and Alexander Flores) are no where near the top in the division. And he's now on another 6 month layoff with no scheduled fights in the future. He needs to get active (against a real opponent) or he risks being dropped from the world rankings altogether.

I'm far from done with him. But he is frustrating to say the least.
The guy is wasting his career

chuck9788 wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 11:24 Joseph Parker is irritating me. It seems like he doesn't want to even try to be the best. His last 2 opponents (Alex Leapai and Alexander Flores) are no where near the top in the division. And he's now on another 6 month layoff with no scheduled fights in the future. He needs to get active (against a real opponent) or he risks being dropped from the world rankings altogether.

To be fair on Joe, it’s understandable that he's had a couple of stay-busy confidence-building bouts against journeymen after suffering back-to-back losses against Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte.

And it wasn’t really his fault a spider bite cost him an October 26th bout against Dereck Chisora, which would have been a big payday against a high-profile beatable foe that was also a fringe world title contender.

I agree with you though, he needs to be more active, but I’m sure he’ll receive an opportunity to engage in a big fight early next year, due to his affiliation with Matchroom.

Callum Smith if he doesn't fight BJS, Canelo, Golovkin or Benavidez next.

boxing_rocks wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 12:47 Liam Smith if he doesn't fight BJS, Canelo, Golovkin or Benavidez next.

Callum Smith?

..any confirmed and some of the suspected dopers/cheats ..their bs excuses somehow have no effect on me..

Pulev is someone I won't watch. That's been a few years, he just brings nothing to the table. Probably make an exception with Josh or Wilder or one of the prospects. Other than that he's on the no watch zone.

Drug cheats
Wife beaters
Career wasters
Protected divas
And guys that call out the other champions, then go on to take tomato cans.

KiwiRider wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 13:07 Drug cheats
Wife beaters
Career wasters
Protected divas
And guys that call out the other champions, then go on to take tomato cans.

So, everyone?

Biggest disappointment for me was Dillian Whyte.

For sure he may have had more than a few suspicions that most of his heavyweight rivals were using illegal means (or technical loopholes) to gain chemically assisted advantages, but I was hoping, just maybe he was above all that.

I loved his straight talking, no-nonsense approach which lead him to have a good a resume as anyone bar Anthony Joshua. But now he's just another heavyweight looking to cash in - anyway, anyhow. Even worse, he seems to have taken Eddie Hearn with him.

Oh well, if you can't beat them...

Thomastearns wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 13:12 Biggest disappointment for me was Dillian Whyte.

For sure he may have had more than a few suspicions that most of his heavyweight rivals were using illegal means (or technical loopholes) to gain chemically assisted advantages, but I was hoping, just maybe he was above all that.

I loved his straight talking, no-nonsense approach which lead him to have a good a resume as anyone bar Anthony Joshua. But now he's just another heavyweight looking to cash in - anyway, anyhow. Even worse, he seems to have taken Eddie Hearn with him.

Oh well, if you can't beat them...

He was popped ages ago.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 13:10

KiwiRider wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 13:07 Drug cheats
Wife beaters
Career wasters
Protected divas
And guys that call out the other champions, then go on to take tomato cans.

So, everyone?

No, not everyone, but a selected few. The OP was about who you used to like and why you don't now.
I thought listing the reasons was quicker than listing all the names. I like most boxers- until they do something on my list.

Hughie Fury and Pulev. The only two fighteres I really won't watch.

I do think about a [former] swedish boxer how just grains my gears all the time. Then again, he did claim to have the second most pro-fight in Swedish history among other things. I do love his last fight where he was aming for the WBO-belt and got smashed by Lujan who later got his ear ripped of by Maragarito.

Hate that all non-boxing fans knows about him and/or Ingo in Swedrike. Got two shots at belts, but he was a celeb in Swedrike, so no probs getting the shots with money behind him. His record got like 2 or 3 wins of 28 that are worth something other then fighting tomatocans and journeymen. Paolo Roberto, have made good money outside boxing and good for him. But, can't stand the prick.

Thank the Abrahamian God for Badou Jack.

Finkel wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 11:21

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 10:19

Not me personally. I've read a bit about due to his recent crash etc.. Not wearing seat belt, imagine there was more people involved. etc.

Ah okay, fair enough
I wondered if it was due to that.
I think people forget about such things quite quickly. There have been other sports stars who have totalled super cars and were lucky to walk away relatively unscathed. Christiano Ronaldo for example.

if Spence returns and does well, much of the disdain will turn to begrudging respect that he was able to overcome a horrendous car wreck like that. If he fails to achieve anything close to his previous level of talent, he will be remembered primarily as the guy who torched his ascending career due to his own stupidity.

Isn't he fine?