Boxing writer-You most hate

I hope for you sake he doesn't type his name in on google too.

 

HATE THE MOTHER FUKER GOOD CALL......:good:good:good:good

 

let me google and find out lol.

 

Honestly, most of them suck. On the top of my **** list would be Sugar, Katz, Kellerman (more a personality than writer) and Farhood.

Hacks all of them. I don't think one ever raised a fist to another man in or out of the ring, and at least one of them wore a neck brace for the better part of a ****ing decade.

 

:goodgeorge whiting was one of the few that turpin liked.
all because whiting gave him a bar of chocolate when turpin was a junior and probably hadn't seen any chocolate for years due to rationing during the war

 

Kram was only trying to assassinate the myth surrounding Ali. To you, Ali might be a hero and obviously you wouldn't want to see anything that would say otherwise.

I'm also sick of this hero worship garbage, and I'd like to see more writers in the vein of the late Mark Kram that reveal exactly what they saw when they were writing. Kram showed how Ali was less pop magician and real just like anybody else. He was a man that was fearful of fading away and had to be heard. Ali held a lot of love for a lot of women, and at certain points it looks like he had a farm team setup to determine his wife. His act ruined a perfectly good friendship between him and Frazier, but who could blame Joe for being put in the position that he was. The man tried to get Ali back into boxing and Ali turned around and put the screws to Joe. Called the man that got him back into his livelihood an "Uncle Tom"! It is what it is and I'm glad there's writers like the late Mark Kram to tell the story for what it is.

Another thing is people get used to seeing history the way it has been reported, so any new revealing information that runs counter to the Ali image and myth is going to be met with some form of hostility. Ali is a man just like any other championship boxer that captured the hearts and imaginations of many people. He held great skill and talent, and his own form of childish mismanagement and the "hangers-on" tore him down into the man he is today. Ali isn't the first boxer like that and he certainly won't be the last. I'm just glad an athlete like Ali was in the sport of boxing and nowhere else. I just wish he could have gotten out with his mind in tact, but then again this is the sport of boxing.

 

Couldn't disagree more about Jim Murray, rr. He may not have been a boxing writer exclusively, but he was ONE HELLUVA WRITER. He could deliver a masterpiece with no turn-around time.

 

I dont like Dan Rafeal for ESPN.com. He is a brilliant journalist and obviously loves boxing but his anayltical and actual boxing knowledge are limited, saying that he actually is a good boxing writer just not my favrouite.

 

Pedro Fernandez...pompous and could use a lot more education.

I don't like Bert Sugar either.

 

Jim Bagg is the biggest dickhead ever, can't believe The Ring allows him to write his disrespectful bull****.

 

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His articles are OK but the whole "Bagg-a-donuts" "Baggtastic" "Baggfried and Roy" schtick gets really old and worn out by the second line of the column.

 

Jim Bagg annoys the hell out of me sometimes - trying to play the "I'm a grizzled, cranky old veteran" card too often. Plus he's given himself more nicknames than Apollo Creed.

Ivan Goldman should be inducted into the ******* hall of fame for his 'Did Mayweather Duck Gender Test?' article.

 

I's a great line, 'n spot-on.

 

What a minute does Steve Bunce count as a writer? Can he even read? :think