Fighters at one time you disliked or didn't appreciate but now you do..

basilio was a hard guy to like, over time i became ambivalent

still, that nickname.

 

You just know my answer Kurupt, despite how much I troll on him I do appreciate his great skill set and slickness.

 

I think a lot of us were in that boat. In the ring though he was the goods.

 

I appreciate the way Pacquiao adjusted his style with age to keep winning. He looked gifted but carefully matched at other points in his career. I still can't stand him as a person.

 

Ali. I rooted against him in his every bout. I realize now he was the greatest hwt of my lifetime. Perhaps the greatest hwt who ever lived.

 

Probably like a few others eubank. When he beat Benn, at the time I couldn't stand the man. The way he came across in the ring and outside. I think what changed it for me was after the Michael Watson tragedy. You could see it affecting him in interviews and u realised he had remorse. He carried on fighting but he never had the same intensity about knocking some one out. He showed true heart in his later fights with Collins and Thompson. A very good fighter, maybe not a all time great but one of the best england produced.

 

Danny Zaragosa.

I always thought he was so squared up/scar tissue and a bleeder/fought in the other guy's backyard and never a promoters' favorite/sloppy defense/not the sharpest of punchers/fought at a tough time with many other solid fighters.

Later on it became his age==doing all those same things and giving up 10 or 12 years of age in divisions where guys are washed up at 27.

 

Diego Corrales. I didn't like him when he more than likely pummeled his pregnant wife. This was before I learned about how so many fighters, sadly, have had similar issues.

I look past that and enjoyed the type of excitement Corrales brought when he fought, and the type of heart he showed in there.

Corrales-Castillo 1 is my personal #1 fight of all time.