Boxers you started off liking but wound up disliking

No, you never tried liking him, what a lie lmfao.

1. Fighting on the inside is an art, it's not dirty what he did and he was never really dirty in any fight. Infighting is a lost art and often mistaken with playing dirty.

2. Dawson was the one who called for the fight to happen at 168, Andre couldn't make 175 at that moment. Dawson was also completely fresh coming down (And he said so himself). "It was so easy making 168." He did fight for the legit 175 lb title, and he did that vs Kovalev.

3. Stop falling for the Goosen was nice thing, we all damn well know that he tried to make as much money off Andre as he possibly could. Andre wasn't having any of it and didn't want to deal with it and so he went to court. What's wrong with that?

If someone tries to screw you, you go to court

 

And the standard “I used to be a fan of (Insert Loma, Usyk, GGG, Calzaghe) but his FAN BOYS turned me against him!” comments in 3..2..

 

I liked Wladimir KLitschko until Steward turned him into Lennox Lewis 2.0

 

I was a Deontay Wilder fan back when he first came on the UK scene fighting the likes of Fraudley. Too much talking not enough walking over the past 5/6 however many years.. just irritates me now and I'd love to see him brought down a peg or two.

In a complete flip side too this thread I used to always want Floyd Mayweather too lose, didn't like him. Saw him against Canelo looking as good as I ever saw him and I just thought damn, he is so special, been in love ever since.

 

Vasyl Lomachencko
Was outright given a belt shot in his second pro bout, loss and was given another shot anyway.
Has pulled up 3 guys from a lower weight class, two coming off loses, and beat them being the bigger man literally and is crowned some legend by the desperate armchair fans who don't even go to his fights.
Whenever someone suggest that HE takes a risk and fight someone bigger and better his internet fans go ape poop and start launching insults like Bob Arum is cutting THEM a check.
Loma is good but not as good as the Fat Fans want you to believe. Fat Dan is living vicariously through these guys because he is a fat sloppy pig.

 

Ward's a great guy and a fine role model, the hate for him is baffling and totally irrational. His stoppage of Kovalev is one of the best wins of this decade, sad that it's been buried under a heap of fake controversy.

 

Perhaps Wlad.

He was a great boxer, even if he did fight dirty from time to time. I marvel at his accomplishments and his discipline.

I want to like him, or at least I feel like I do.

But every interview I watch of him makes me think he's a phony idiot.

 

And because everyone is talking about the Ward/Kovalev thing:

I might put Kovalev, sort of. I wanted to like him and I sort of did for a while. I don't dislike him now, I just don't care about him.

Kovalev lost. He deserved to lose. And his ridiculous arrogance in dismissing Ward's abilities and the advice of a coach leave me unsympathetic. Yeah, Ward didn't win in the cleanest way. Maybe those blows were low. But that wasn't the decisive factor. Ward was winning anyway and the low blow thing is just a crutch to ignore that reality.

And just to continue the Slavic theme because I know it will **** people off:

I really did not like Loma dragging up Rigo two weight classes. I don't care that Rigo was desperate enough/stupid enough to accept it. Loma probably could've roughed up Rigo just as easily at 126, but he didn't do that. This was just A side abusing B side. I didn't like when Canelo pulled this ****, and I don't like Loma doing it either.

This wasn't enough for me to say I dislike Loma, but it was a nontrivial step in that direction.

 

pac

kova

zab judah (tho his counter uppercut is still my fav single punch thrown by any fighter)

i cant stand sore losers

 

Well it seems you can't read at all or you're just no good at English

Your thread

"Fighters you STARTED off liking" which means you liked him in the past but changed your opinion of him. Not "Wanted to."

1. Ward showcases a different style of infighting, one I don't think you truly understand. He adapts to all of his opponents styles. Nothing dirty about him.

2. Yeah, he couldn't make 175 and that was CONFIRMED by Hunter during 2012. It's all over the web. You don't understand too much boxing if you think fighters can magically just move up in weight whenever they wanted. Andre was absolutely perfect at 168 during that time, he could have actually made 163-166 from the interviews I watched.

Dawson was absolutely fresh and he even confirmed that it was an amazing weight for him. He was simply bested by the best active fighter on the planet at that moment in time. He said he would have absolutely no problems and wanted to come down to 168, stop trying to change that narrative. We know what he said in the post fight interview lol.

3. Why did you bring up his cancer then? You're trying to gain sympathy points for something that adds nothing of value to your argument. Just because you have cancer means you can take advantage of people or give you immunity to lawsuits? I don't understand.

You don't know about the contents in the contracts, so stop assuming that Ward did him wrong lol.

Somehow I think you don't like him for another reason. One that has nothing to do with what he did or his style or whatever. It has to do with "Something" else.