are haters good for boxing?

The usual process of when a fighter achieves success and acclaim, is that haters come out to play. Pacquiao, Mayweather, and klitschko's are probably the main sufferers of haters atm and it's looking like its happening to khan too.

It can be rather irritating to hear people completely dismiss a fighters career and ability, but then again maybe they serve a purpose in boxing. In a sense haters are just critics, some of them very bad critics but like in art, film, literature critics are the ones that analyse the subject in detail and look at the negatives as well as the positives.

Haters i suppose are just really pessimistic critics. For me even when a hater is being particularly and unfairly dismissive of a fighter their's often some truth in what they say, and pointing out a fighters weaknesses is better than ignoring them and only looking at their strengths.

fighters need more than just money to motivate them to train hard and improve to become the best they can be, and trying to prove all the haters wrong can give them that extra push.

id take a critical hater over an ignorant fan boy any day.

 

well khan for instance, through out his whole career he's had people saying he has no chance because his limited boxing ability and poor chin. fair enough i suppose because of the prescott loss, but there's still people saying the same thing after khan has beaten judah and maidana.

some haters just hate for the sake of it, but likle i said in the original thread maybe its not a bad thing.

 

yeah the sycophantic fans are bad or boxing. they don't look at fighters objectively and spread false opinions of certain fighters ability. haters although they're dicks at times at least they're realists.

 

yeah but many people completely dismissed his ability. saying he wouldn't amount to anything. which was pretty unfounded considering khan was a silver medalist at 17...


i understand pacman haters are often reacting to *******s over rating manny, but they still direct some of that criticism on to manny as a fighter, and some of it is pretty ridiculous. like now just because manny struggled against marquez, manny has no chance against floyd!!! thats an ignorant statement.

 

yeah there's definitely a difference between the thoughtful and ignorant hater.

the klitschko haters who say stuff like " he's the worse HW ever" are clearly talking out of there ass. but i suppose it's true that the bro's are not as good as the likes of holmes, ali, johnson, louis, lewis ect.

And by listening to the two extremes you can usually decipher the truth somewhere in the middle.

but my point is that maybe those ignorant ones serve as to motivate the fighters to prove them wrong. it's not the only motivational factor of course, but with someone like floyd mayweather for instance i think it plays a big part in his preparation.

 

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