Best characters in boxing ?

I'm a little confused by the opening. Are you asking for present/recent examples of guys like Tony or any examples including guy from or before the 40s?

 

Manny Pacquiao.

 

one of the greatest caracters in boxing history has to be 'Tex' Cobb.
That man was as hilarious as he was tough!

 

Eddie Hearn

 

Kalle Sauerland.

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TYson Fury with his mental routine just got into Wlads head,like him or not he is a character who speaks his mind as appose to the false nicely,nicely scripted AJ.

I’d add BJS as well,he does come out with some awful stuff but I honeythink he’s doing it to sell the fight as he’s so respectful after he wins to his opponents.

 

Ok then I'll just ramble off some of my favorites regardless of time. I'm assuming everyone is avoiding obvious pick like King/Arum or Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Toney, and Ali etc. so I'll do the same and try to only mention lesser known or maybe forgotten.

I always loved the Wlad believes he was poisoned story.

When George Godfrey won his first prize he blew the whole thing on ivory dice.

Those toothless crackheads called Spinks.

John Ruiz's corner.

Daniel The Jew Mendoza's usage of anti-semitism.

Jack Johnson's mocking white fighters.

Larry Merchant's interviews.

Naseem was pretty great along with Uzzy.

A lot of people don't like this about him but Margarito's cheating was always funny to me.

B-Hop for the same reason as Marg plus his boxing buddha schtick he does.

When Haye did the t-shirt with Wlad's dead, priceless.

Chisora's ain't toe stopping us now.

I can't find his name quickly, but I seem to remember catching a video of a guy named Southerland or some such who had a mullet and was a ninja.

Yankee Sullivan satisfying a fix held at gunpoint against Old Smoke Morrissey by beating the **** out of Smoke and leaving him KO'd but exiting the ring before the ref could count Morrissey out DQ'ing himself technically losing the fight to satisfy the bets while winning the fight in all eyes that reported on the matter. Ballsy and hilarious.

Orlando Cruz's expecting the world to give a **** that he's gay.

Pretty much everyone pre Cribb who believed that beer and red meat was how you got into fighting shape and that training degrades the fighting spirit.

I'm sure I'll think of more after a while but I'm starting to struggle for now so I'll leave it.

 

bugger off!

 

Ricardo "Hey that black guy, he hits hard" Mayorga

 

Excuse me?

 

Jorge Páez
Livingstone Bramble
Demarcus Corley
Wilbert “The Vampire” Johnson
Hector Camacho Sr., Junior was very bland

 

Has nobody mentioned Emmanuel Augustus yet? Maybe the most fun-to-watch boxer of all time.