Boxers who you hated but changed your opinion?

Erislandy lara and canelo. used to hate them but they started fighting better competition.

 

Alvarez and Maidana.

 

I lost interest in him after the Wladimir fight. That fight was such a disgrace, it's really hard to still be a fan of his after that.

 

I used to hate Sergio Martinez for beating on the great Paul Williams like that but after I saw his fight against JCC Jr., nothing but respect.

 

I agree with Paulie.

Hopkins.

Vlad.

Thurman is winning me round a bit, but I won't say I'm too keen on him yet.

I also think this website has turned me into a bit of a Khan apolgist, I didn't like him because of his arrogance (although it was nothing compared to the likes of Broner) but I get the impression most of this website don't like him because of his race and are still butthurt he beat Maidana despite having a glass chin.

 

Yeah good one. His sense of humour grows on you.

 

He has several the guy is looney toons LOL

 

Bradley won me over in that hellacious war against Ruslan .

Yet Ive never hated him nor any other boxer .

Its not that serious .

 

I've never hated a boxer, with the exception of Broner. I hate everything about the sh@tty culture he represents. (I'm not talking about nationality, color, or anything related to race)

 

Bradley

I didn't really 'hate' him but I certainly didn't really care for him until I really dug into his career and watched his journey through the JWW mountain. I respect him alot now.

 

Disliked broner but you can't hate on him backing up the sht he talks .

 

Which culture would that be, then?

 

I didn't like Froch for a long time. First saw him when he won bronze at the World amateur championships and had high hopes for him as a pro. But early on he looked slow and technically very flawed. I became frustrated by his lack of progress as he kept making the same technical mistakes. I basically gave up on him and never expected him to achieve much.

But he won me over when he actually lost to Kessler. I was rooting for Kessler and expected him to blow Froch away inside 6 rounds. But Froch surprised me and fought on equal terms for most of the fight. In fact by the end of it while I thought he lost, I thought he also fought below his usual level, he gave away rounds by not pulling the trigger often enough.

I realised then that Froch was far better than I thought and while he was still very flawed he was able to make up for that but simply being tougher and hungrier that his opponents. When he then out boxed AA I begun to warm to him and when he beat Bute I became a fan.

 

Hopkins for being a racist.
Can't deny his achievements though.