fighters you hated but now are a fan of or vice versa....

pac-

i hated pac, i couldn't stand the little ****er, he kept beating up my favorite fighters, now im not really a die hard fans but i respect him.

floyd-

i hated him for beating some of my then favorites in castillo, corrales, manfredy and hernandez, like pac i'm not a big fan of his but now i appreciate him more (mainly for knocking ricky hatton the **** out).

wlad klit-

i couldn't stand the guy because of the klit nuthuggers but believe it or not i really respect the guy, he is a well spoken gentleman who is the best in his division, obviously i will be rooting against him when he fights haye.

de la hoya -

i was a rabid de la hoya nuthugger until recently i have calmed down, i hated him for picking a fight with a lightweight pac and hated how he kept getting the big fights while mosley had to wait around.

 

I can tell you're ****.

 

De La Hoya. I remember rooting against him in a lot of fights but he is one of my favourite fighters now. Others probably include Lennox Lewis and David Haye.

 

Eddie Chambers

I always thought he was annoying, avoiding actual fight HW wannabe. Until the Dimitrenko fight.

Edit - not that I hated him, I didn't like him.

 

NEVER hated, but i was a huge Barrera fan back in the day, during his active career. And i'm kinda more fond of Morales in hindsight. Don't hate me Addie. I'm still a Barrera fan.

 

I didn't like Williams at first.

I was rooting against Pavlik vs Miranda but his beatdown of Miranda made me a fan.

 

Really? More than half his opposition since Rossy has been about as good as you can expect of a HW contender in this climate. His rebuilding run in 2008 was kind of poor, but other than that..?

 

I was not a fan of Muhammad Ali when he was in his prime. Now that I'm older, I'm a huge fan of his :good

 

Vic Darchinyan-during the early stages of his career i thought he was just another **** talker but then he started knocking quality guys left and right and showed everybody he wasnt just talk and i became a fan.

 

I'm only 24, but when i started to learn my boxing history properly it turned me a little against Ali. Only because he's known as the best ever to the armchair fans, so when i started to learn about say Robinson etc or anyone else i thought rated higher, it pissed me off that the masses thought Ali was the greatest. A few years down the line and i'm comfortable rating Ali as one of the very best ever p4p. He is imo.

 

Hopkins

Floyd

Malignaggi

Lewis

 

I spat out the Miranda Kool-Aid circa Round 2 against Pavlik.

 

For me...it was Paulie Malinaggi!

Honsetly speaking...When I first saw him I thought he was a ***! I'm dead serious...The more and more I watched his fights the more I became a fan...Still thinks he's gay though!:rofl

Paulie has the heart of a lion...It seems nobody cant take his fight away...and also...He fights to the end!:good

 

I didnt like Lennox Lewis, because he beat the **** out of Golota, who was considered then the white hope of the HW division. This was very big fight in Poland and not only in Poland I think. Later I realised, how great fighter was Lennox. I dont want to talk about ATG, because I dont make such rankings, but to me, virtually, Lennox Lewis H2H may win with every fighter of every decade.

 

me too