Boxing ‘nice guys’ who you actually don’t think were nice guys

Definitely Anthony Joshua.

 

Corbett made a career out of being a ‘gentleman’ but he did seem like the biggest ***** in boxing while he was active

 

I'd say Golovkin too. I think he's a nice guy to a point, but that he's one of those dudes who, if you rub him the wrong way, he will go to unreasonable lengths to ruin you.

 

Old George Foreman. I’m sure was more mellow and nicer than young Foreman, but he definitely milked that smile and his image extremely well.

I don’t know about GGG, but Leonard definitely had his share of people who thought he was a 2-faced *******. They thought he was phony & arrogant, and he admittedly put hands on his ex wife Juanita.

There were people who thought the same about Oscar De La Hoya when he fought and how he interacted with people. Now everyone knows he’s, at the very least, a weirdo, and at worst, a sex offender. Not that the accusations weren’t around in the late 90s, but in terms of how people view than and their believability. Especially the way it was presented in The Golden Boy doc.

I don’t know about Pacquiao being a phony or anything, I just figured he was a lot more cocky that he let off. Which is pretty much what I expect out of pro athletes, especially great ones like him.

 

Most of them, I feel. Robinson seemed like a stand-up guy, a gentleman, but was brutal wife beater. Leonard also beat his wife, at the very least once, and pulled a gun when she said she was leaving him.

DLH certainly seems to have had his demons, but haven't heard something to that degree about him. Nor Pac.

There are those, like Chuvalo and Mickey Ward, who seem thoroughly decent, but you can never know.

 

Holyfield.

 

Despite his aggressive fighting style, Shawn Porter seems like a fairly affable and down to earth dude.

But to get back on topic, Anthony Joshua seems to have a Doctor Jekyll/Mr. Hyde thing going on. He tries to do the wholesome marketable athlete thing, but occasionally has these weird outbursts or moments where he becomes more distant and cold. Idk, he's hard to figure out. He once got really angry and serious with a reporter who called him "nice".

 

I read a translated interview of GGG a while back and he was anything but nice, could’ve been a bad day.

 

Muhammad Ali was a genuine POS and it gets ignored constantly because people are idiots who even go so far today as to call him a civil rights hero lol.

 

Anthony Joshua vile Anti White man.

muhammad Ali anti white man

Carl Froch arrogance and overrated

 

Spot on. One of the most two-faced athletes ever.

 

He was considered a gentleman because of his job at the bank? and amateur status at the Olympic club etc Ol pal @apollack answered this for me once before… did you know he’s related to De La Hoya? - but yeah, Corbett was like an 1800s Patrick Bateman.

 

Old Foreman is an excellent example. That granpa smile, the friendly jolly giant, the whole thing was an act.

 

Larry Merchant said that too iirc, or that he's simply quite different when he's far from the cameras