P4P Top 10 Cowardliest Boxers of All Time

You should step in the ring with Joe Hipp, Tony Tucker, Oliver McCall, Greg Page or Tubbs and tell me how cowardly that is. Funny, Seldon fought all those guys and a whole lot more.

 

There's a great big difference between pure cowardice and becoming gun-shy when faced with the realization that you're in there with someone you won't be able to beat (to reference McGrain's point about Audley.). Even still, the fact that Harrison stepped into the ring to begin with, despite his tepid performance, pretty much precludes him from being labeled as a coward.

For all intents and purposes, anyone who steps into the ring and places themselves in harm's way has shown some degree of bravery.

That being said, some fighters are braver than others, and some fighters display their bravery more frequently and more poignantly than others placed in similar situations.

So, yeah...We wouldn't take upbrage to a 10 Top most courageous fighters thread. Pretty much anyone with something to contribute to this forum has taken exception to the term coward being used to describe a professional prize fighter who puts his health at risk from bell to bell.

If you want an example of a fighter who did act in cowardly fashion, then I'll mention James Butler, who sucker punched Richard Grant after losing a decision. That's cowardly, to say the least.

Maybe not the type of example you wanted...But it's the example you're getting, whether you like it or not.

 

No boxer is cowardly in comparison to the average man but some boxers are braver than other boxers.

 

“Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he’s not afraid, if I believed him I’d say he’s a liar or there’s something wrong with him. I’d send him to a doctor to find out what the hell’s the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that’s gone into the ring and hasn’t experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath…”


"...We go on now into the ring. Half the time they’re walking when they go down to the ring as though they’re going to the gallows. So when they climb those stairs, I never call a fighter yellow. Knowing what he goes through, the very act of climbing into that ring stamps him a person of courage and discipline.”

- Cus D'Amato

I agree that i think this thread is in rather poor taste.

 

Luis Resto...

 

Only a total **** would call Duran a coward for walking out of the ring due too his opponants obvious reluctance too FIGHT him:deal

Hows that for a bit of positive spin on a negative issue:yep

Disgraceful & beyond disrespectfull thread & it's without doubt the worst subject of a thread i've ever had the misfortune to reluctantly partake in:smoke

 

There is now such thing as a cowardly boxer. While there is good reason to question the mental strenghth of certian boxxers. None of them are cowards.
Do you have any idea how much courage it takes to preform infront a crowd of people now ad the fact that there is someone else "on stage" who is trying to beat the **** out of you.
You can call a fighter overrated, inept, in over his head and mentaly weak. A lot of other nagative things too. However the word coward should not be applied to any fighter.

 

youve realized that youve been an idiot defending some strawman agument that we are some how calling all boxers cowards

you do know what a strawman argument is right? its where you read "list the cowardliest boxers of all time" and argue that we are calling all boxers cowards. would a "list the least couragious boxers of all time" meant anthing diffrent? absolutely not, but we wouldnt be sitting here argueing that its unfai to call all boxers cowards.

really, are you ******ing this thread on purpose? no one is calling any one a flat out coward, just that some boxers act more cowardly then other boxers.

if you can rank a boxer on his courage then you can rank a boxer on his lack of courage.....aka cowardice.

and i havnt called any one any thing, if you got a beef to pick with the guy calling duran a coward or audley a coward, take it up with them and argue it out with them.

 

^ you obviously didnt read his post you twit.

 

^ you obviously didnt read either post you twit.

 

You unfortunate spawn of a sodomized swine, do you not grasp the concept of voluntarily putting one's self in harm's way!?

Apparently not, because if you did, you wouldn't have responded to this post in the manner that you did, and instead simply agreed with the point that the behavior of James Butler was most cowardly, since it occurred after the final bell rang.

Then again, maybe you;re the type of guy who doesn't feel that way. Maybe you're the type of sociopath who feels that Butler's behavior was completely justified, simply because it fit your accepted level of aggrssion.

Is that really the case? "Cause if it is, then I fear for the future of this planet if you have the ability to produce children.

 

guess you didnt understand the whole straw man argument thing....

see when you make up stuff that i didnt say and then argue against it, its a weak tactic.

though even more weak is using insults instead of calmly argueing.

or perhaps what im saying is too confusing for you to understand, so here you go plain and simple:

dont quote my ****ing posts and then go on about **** i never even said, like your some how disproving my point.

 

I still think Seldon was genuinely out, innocuous punches can see you seeing stars, especially if you're hit behind the ear, which I think he was

 

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Post deleted. No need in continuing a battle of wits with unarmed individuals. Besides, Ylem is on my ignore list. I have further interest in reading what he has to say on this or any other topic.