Hating a fighter for the wrong reason

He matched up well against everyone you mentioned with the exception of Ray Robinson.
Robinson had the ability to force him to lead, and counter him, the foot speed to make him
re-set.

 

Absolutely.

If a person wields genuine political power, and abuses it, then that is a person that it is reasonable to heat.

 

And plenty have given us reason to hate em.

 

Ray R. Had the ability to humiliate or KO any middleweight that ever lived at his best.

 

The middleweights are so great that to be even in the top 10 ever places you head and shoulders over 95% of fighters.

 

Yes, for being overrated and overshadowing fighters that deserve more praise

 

Hardly seems like a good reason to me.

I mean they didn't overrate themselves!

 

My grandma picked Holyfield over Lewis only because Lewis wore "FCUK" Gear during intros. I was like 9 telling her it doesn't spell what you think it does. Couldn't change her mind.

 

I’m not particularly fond, to put it mildly, of fighters who are lousy human beings. But I don’t think that’s a wrong reason to dislike them.

I don’t really root for individual fighters anymore, I root for the good of boxing as I see it at the time. So I don’t dislike any fighters unless they’re a-holes.

But when I was a kid, I’d root against a fighter for any reason, even if I didn’t like the way they looked or if I found them boring (Hugo Corro and Jimmy Young come to mind. It’s hard to imagine not appreciating Jimmy Young as a seasoned adult boxing fan.). Leroy Haley, Trevor Berbick, Duane Bobick, Bazooka Limon, and Jean-Pierre Coopman all come to mind. Coopman’s sidies and ‘stache bothered me. Now I think they looked groovy. Mostly I rooted against guys who were fighting my heroes. I’m looking at you, Aaron Pryor. Glad I grew out of it.

 

As I have mentioned before, in order to hate, you had to have love first, dislike is a better word.

 

Makes sense, my uncle got me into boxing, and he HATED Rocky Marciano. His reasoning usually involving the Joe Louis match, the fact he was Italian, and that he was a "pretty boy". Odd stuff right? He could go on for hours about "his ties to the soviets" and "being paid off by jeffery michaelstein" etc etc.

 

Absolute Bull Feces regarding Margarito> Show me one iota of proof he ever did anything wrong or that there was ever anyone ever stated plaster was ever used??? You cannot because there never ever was any plaster . That was all in Nazim Richardsons mind ever . It was a blatant lie