Most Hated Boxers of All Time

Don't worry i feel the same

 

Also, Tyson's domination of the division lasted approximately 18 months. I don't think that even constitutes an era.

People don't speak of Anthony Joshua as having dominated an era even though he was widely viewed as the best heavyweight in the world for two years.

 

This video actually proves Holmes greatness, not his loss to Tyson. That first big right hand by Tyson would have KO'd most any other HW IN HISTORY. And Holmes took it, got up and continued to try and fight back. If this example wasn't enough, upload the Holmes-Norton fight.
15 rounds of mayhem.

Holmes wasn't likable, I get that, but his All Time HW ranking should be pretty high on anyone's list, IMO.

 

Thankfully being likable has never been a necessary qualification for greatness,personally I'd rather have a beer with Larry than Tyson, but that doesn't mean that because I think Mike is a pretty shitty human being, I feel compelled to disparage his achievements .

 

jimmy young
herol graham
hector camacho
johnny nelson

 

Why do you hate Jimmy Young?

 

As agreed, its not really hate, but since you ask, his style was not pleasing on the eye, undoubted skill of sorts, but left me underwhelmed.

 

The Margarito hate is completely fair. I wrote this in another thread where people were falsely claiming that Margarito was some kind of falsely accused victim or something:



Where are you getting your facts? Is your position that there was nothing wrong with Margarito's pads? That Richardson made it all up and the inspectors, doctor, and lawyer who confirmed the presence of the illegal insert were all just dumb or dishonest?

Here are some of the facts as relayed by the California Court of Appeals:

"At the February 10, 2009 hearing, Commission Inspectors Guevara, Dean Lohuis (Lohuis), and Mike Bray (Bray) all testified that they felt the knuckle pads Capetillo initially placed in Margarito's hand wraps before the Mosley fight and that the pads felt harder than allowed by the applicable rules and were confiscated. After feeling one of the confiscated pads at the hearing, Margarito admitted that he felt something hard. Capetillo admitted that the confiscated pads violated the applicable rules, and acknowledged that had they been used, they could have seriously injured Margarito's opponent."

Also:
"Before the contest with Mosley, Capetillo was wrapping Margarito's hands while four Commission inspectors and Mosley's trainer observed the process. After Capetillo finished wrapping Margarito's right hand, Mosley's trainer asked the inspectors to physically inspect a pre-made gauze “knuckle pad” insert that Capetillo was about to wrap over Margarito's left hand. The inspectors found that the inner layers of the pad were discolored and that the pad felt harder than it should have. In a report prepared after the inspection, Commission Inspector Che Guevara (Guevara) described the gauze pad removed from Margarito's left hand as “dirty-looking” and smeared with a white substance that looked like plaster and was hard to the touch. Concluding that the pad violated the rules, the inspectors confiscated the pad and instructed Capetillo to prepare a new one.

Mosley's trainer then asked the inspectors to examine the gauze insert in Margarito's already wrapped right hand. Margarito insisted there was nothing in the right hand wrapping, and held his hand out saying, “Touch it. Feel it. Go ahead. There is nothing in it.” The inspectors ordered the wrapping removed and found a similar improperly hardened pad, which they confiscated. After Capetillo prepared two new knuckle pads, the inspectors approved Margarito's hand wraps and allowed Margarito to proceed with the boxing match."

and:

"The commissioners at the hearing inspected one of the pads that had been confiscated from Margarito's hand wraps and compared it to the soft gauze that is used to wrap a boxer's hand before a contest. The other confiscated pad was sent to the Department of Justice's forensic laboratory for evaluation, where it was photographed under a microscope at six times magnification. The photographs were presented as evidence at the hearing.

At the conclusion of the hearing, all seven commissioners voted unanimously to revoke Margarito's license.

4. The Commission's Decision

In a written decision issued on March 31, 2009, the Commission found that the knuckle pads removed from Margarito's hand wraps before the Mosley fight on January 24, 2009, had been adulterated with a white plaster-like substance. The Commission concluded that the use of adulterated knuckle pads by a boxer seriously endangers the boxer's opponent and gives the boxer an unfair advantage that causes discredit to boxing."

and:

"Three Commission inspectors testified at the hearing that they felt the knuckle pads removed from Margarito's hand wraps and found them to be harder than allowed by the applicable rules. Inspector Lohuis's January 27, 2009 report describing the gauze pad confiscated from Margarito's left hand wrap states: “It appeared that some sort of liquid had been applied to this smaller pad, which was a violation of the rules.”"

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1541145.html

From: https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...r-his-victory-over-miguel-cotto.634148/page-4

 

I guess this settles the question for good!

 

Anthony Mundine gets plenty of hate in Aus. He has said some controversial things and comes across as a sore loser. Personally I don't mind him but I can see why the majority don't like him.

 

Agreed

 

Canelo is the answer delusion protected coward.

 

Pazienza
Broner
Ali
Hamed
Camacho
DeLahoya ( as Canelos promoter)
Canelo
Dirrell brothers
Charlo brothers
Judah
Mayweather
Mayweather Sr.
Tank Davis
Teo Lopez and his father

 

Eubank and Hamed, both from same Era more or less, I think they tried out doing each other, to see who was the biggest Knob.

 

Johnson and Ali at their peaks were the most hated by miles. No one else is even in the discussion.

Floyd is polarising in his way, but nothing like that.

Then you have the more just disliked variety like Liston.