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

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  1. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Chris Eubank gives me suspicious vibes,idk why but he kinda reminds me of Leonard's act.
     
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  2. Smoochie

    Smoochie Boxin' dreamer Full Member

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    He basically killed while driving another man, also by the interviews, he doesn't seem that well mentally
     
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    CroBox29 Boxing Addict Full Member

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  5. FThabxinfan

    FThabxinfan Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Could Bernard Hopkins count a little? He,in my eyes to be someone pretending to be a classy,old gentleman while being kinda racist himself.
     
  6. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    I heard he was an ******* from a friend of some people who lived in the same building as him.
     
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  7. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Probably Tunney. The total ignorance and arrogance of his pseudo intellectual writings does it for me. Or maybe every literate person was like that a hundred years ago.
     
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  8. The Long Count

    The Long Count Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Foreman not a good dude.
     
  9. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I know some will disagree, but Don King always struck me as not the nicest guy in the world even though he’s almost always smiling.
     
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  10. Bigcheese

    Bigcheese Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I can't tell if you're joking or not but I'm pretty sure all would agree. He's a complete pos.
     
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  11. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I would be more afraid of Frank Warren than anyone he promotes.
     
  12. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    There is a part of me that agrees with you--he was not only very racist to white people, but to other black people, and Asians too. He saw everything in terms of race.

    But it should be noted that Ali really didn't have the capacity to the the voice of a generation, or a movement, as he was thrust into being. He had a very average intellect, and a lot of the cleverness was canned for him by Bundini and other hangers-on. Ferdi Pacheco for example said that Tyson was much more of a natural intellect.
     
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  13. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Ali was an idiot overall he was imitating the WWE (WWF) heel gimmick and people just chalk everything up to that… YES but he genuinely was exceptionally racist, genuinely was in a UFO cult that murdered people and genuinely beat / mistreated women in his life, it was alleged he slept with “girls” I have read two seperate allegations… being known to be a “sex addict” and POS I’d be unsurprised but I’d also be unsurprised he was being extorted for money. His playboy interview is disgusting NOI vomit for anyone who doubts what kind of guy he was lol and not even something he stood on as he himself was a “race traitor” bedding anyone he could of any race - it’s been said by multiple people in his camp from Angelo, Girlfriends and Bundini that half his stupid jokes and poetry he had others write for him… which makes sense considering he repeated the same phrases about 1000x great boxer but **** him as a human he deserved his fate.
     
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  14. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    To everyone saying Foreman—you spend enough time in that POS business, with the likes of King and Arum running the sport (two kinds of devil), and you certainly don't get to keep the naive grandpa persona.

    Foreman went bankrupt funding churches and youth centers. That's as nice as you get in this world.
     
  15. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Sparring partners of Foreman’s have said he is genuinely a nice guy who throws BBQ’s for everybody, win lose or draw he was in high spirits afterwards… but he doesn’t pull his punches in sparring, which is far from evil and expected of the pros at that level.
     
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