Who is the most evil boxer in boxing history?

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Who is the most evil boxer in boxing history?

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Who is in your opinion the most evil boxer? I have compiled a list of 10 of the most evil boxers (in my opinion), check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHCyaZqG238&t=31s

I started a new YT-channel, hope you guys enjoy the content!!
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Really poor use of the word "Evil" in some cases there.

Emile Griffith, Mike Tyson, Rubin Carter, Roberto Duran are certainly not men I consider to be "Evil". In fact in some cases it's downright insulting that you'd describe them as such. Particularly with like an Emile Griffith where you have absolutely no cause for it.

Most on the list I wouldn't classify as Evil, though a few fit the bill.

You left off a glaring omission in James Butler who is probably the most twisted bastard I've heard of in the fight game.

Quite a few guys have killed their girlfriends or wives I'm sure.

Randy Turpin shot his baby and then himself before he died. So yeah that surely could've qualified.

Anyway. To sum it up.

15 views on this video of which I'm sorry to say I've been one.

Hope you don't consider my opinion Contro-Versey-Al.
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Emile Griffith is going to give you a serious credibility problem right off the bat. He is so misplaced on this list, it's almost worth taking it down and putting in a different fighter.

And after that, the list is all over the place, with some guys being pretty legitimately evil and others having far more context to their actions, though I don't want to get into defending them here.

Along with James Butler who was already mentioned and deservedly so, I would add: Carlos Monzon, Panama Lewis, and Luis Resto.

Finally, may I suggest making room for all-time evil POS, Gerald McLellan. No list is complete without him.
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Carlos Baldomir, Tony Alaya jnr and the Hilton’s are more worthy of the list than some on there
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Are we talking evil in the ring ?
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Tyson and Carter are both reprehensible, no issue with them being included.
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Tony Ayala, Edwin Valero and Carlos Monzon make the cut surely...
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littlepug wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 20:03 Carlos Baldomir,
What did Baldo do??
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AntonioMartin wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 05:11
littlepug wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 20:03 Carlos Baldomir,
What did Baldo do??
You don't want to know
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Sentenced to 18 years in jail for abusing his 8 yr old daughter.
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Ya, I mean guys like Tyson and Carter you can certainly see the argument, I'm sure there are dudes way more evil but no one will prob care about obscure fighters
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gilgamesh wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 18:41 Really poor use of the word "Evil" in some cases there.

Emile Griffith, Mike Tyson, Rubin Carter, Roberto Duran are certainly not men I consider to be "Evil". In fact in some cases it's downright insulting that you'd describe them as such. Particularly with like an Emile Griffith where you have absolutely no cause for it.

Most on the list I wouldn't classify as Evil, though a few fit the bill.

You left off a glaring omission in James Butler who is probably the most twisted bastard I've heard of in the fight game.

Quite a few guys have killed their girlfriends or wives I'm sure.

Randy Turpin shot his baby and then himself before he died. So yeah that surely could've qualified.

Anyway. To sum it up.

15 views on this video of which I'm sorry to say I've been one.

Hope you don't consider my opinion Contro-Versey-Al.
I asked for feedback and you gave me feedback. Thanks ;) Just starting a new channel hoping to have some fun. Of course there will be lots of mistakes along the way and I am sure I won't make everyone happy. Regardless of that, thanks for the feedback. Maybe I will meet you again in the comment section of another video of mine, perhaps in the future :)
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jas80s wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 18:58 Emile Griffith is going to give you a serious credibility problem right off the bat. He is so misplaced on this list, it's almost worth taking it down and putting in a different fighter.

And after that, the list is all over the place, with some guys being pretty legitimately evil and others having far more context to their actions, though I don't want to get into defending them here.

Along with James Butler who was already mentioned and deservedly so, I would add: Carlos Monzon, Panama Lewis, and Luis Resto.

Finally, may I suggest making room for all-time evil POS, Gerald McLellan. No list is complete without him.
Thnx for the feedback! Definitely will consider them in a part 2!
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margaret thatcher wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 13:11 Ya, I mean guys like Tyson and Carter you can certainly see the argument, I'm sure there are dudes way more evil but no one will prob care about obscure fighters
True that!
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Weren't Burt Lytell and Curtis Sheppard alleged to be jailhouse sodomites ? That's evil stuff. Sugar Ray Robinson used to beat his pregnant wife-she suffered several miscarriages.
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In boxing, you gotta throw punches with evil intentions. Either you kill or be killed up there in the ring.

I don't think any boxer throw blows to kill anybody, but to hurt, yes.
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Carter was innocent wasn't he. Butler is the clear #1.
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Jaywheel wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 09:19 Sentenced to 18 years in jail for abusing his 8 yr old daughter.
I just saw that!

I wrote him years ago for an autograph when he was with Sichuan Boxing,-through their postal address-and he sent me a nice package that included a personal letter, a boxing magazine, a couple of photos signed by him and a flag or Argentina! Certainly he didnt strike me as someone who'd do something like that! Im speechless!
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Onetimeonly wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 21:05 Carter was innocent wasn't he. Butler is the clear #1.
Im not so convinced he is..but yeah to say he is evil is asserting he is evil and Im not convinced either way myself so...
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Onamastus wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 06:40
AntonioMartin wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 05:11
littlepug wrote: 24 Aug 2020, 20:03 Carlos Baldomir,
What did Baldo do??
You don't want to know
Wow1 I just read! Read my comment above....my image of him is destroyed now.
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Onetimeonly wrote: 25 Aug 2020, 21:05 Carter was innocent wasn't he. Butler is the clear #1.
It even says so in the video that he's innocent :lol:

I guess just getting accused makes you potentially "Evil"
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Post by margaret thatcher »

Carter has a shady past for sure, whatever the verdict was, there's a lot more to it than some song and movie
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margaret thatcher wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 17:44 Carter has a shady past for sure, whatever the verdict was, there's a lot more to it than some song and movie
Gotta be rare for a guilty man to be set free after decades.
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Onetimeonly wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 18:49
margaret thatcher wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 17:44 Carter has a shady past for sure, whatever the verdict was, there's a lot more to it than some song and movie
Gotta be rare for a guilty man to be set free after decades.
Right. Nothing to do with the song and movie. He was acquitted of the crime. I don't think that happens for guilty men.
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