Fighters you dislike

Because he's boring as hell to watch?

 

the guys i dont see eye to eye with are

sugar ray leonard...guy just dosnt do it for me .. fought in wars.. proved to be the better of the final 4 .. just cant stand the *****!

mike moorer .. after seeing his interviews for the legendary nights foreman documentary... the guy needs his diaper changed and a new bottle post stat!

 

I think it's because everyone ranks him as a top ATG heavyweight, but every fight i've seen of him he liiks like ****. People call him a defensive master when the defense i've seen from him is rudimentary at best.

 

"one persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter"

 

Jermaine Taylor
James Toney
Roy Jones

 

I generally have a hard time actively disliking a boxer, as I have so much more respect for them than I do other athletes, but nowadays, the thuggish, trash-talking, over rated ones have earned my contempt. Guys like Roy Jones, James Toney, Floyd and Zab. The rap/thug/trash talking takes it's toll and is bad for boxing. No class, or sportsmanship is ever exhibited by these guys. Not a one of these guys displays the class of Shane Mosely for instance, or the are as articulate and media savvy like Sugar Ray Leonard. I won't even begin to compare them in way to Floyd Patterson, who, no matter what you thought about him as a fighter, behaved and conducted himself in dignified manner like a man. Boxing is more than just who's the fastest or baddest or the bestest, it's how you comport youself in the public eye and how you represent yourself and your sport. Fighters in the fifties for instance, were for the most part sportsman, and didn't behave like chimpanzees in heat like the thug types do today.

 

How can you like Hopkins, he's a *****? It's not just his fights that bore me, it's him. His interviews, everything. He's just a very boring man.:dead

 

Mike Tyson. He's a bad guy out of the ring, and a dirty fighter in it. Typicaly I would hate Hopkins, but I have no clue why, but when ever he fights I find my self hoping he wins and I don't know why. I don't like his style, his tactics, or him all around, and yet I keep hopin he wins.:huh

 

How does being boring equate to being a *****? I happen to know some people who are extremely boring. In fact, they should have a warning label on them that says " do not attempt to opperate machinary after speaking to this person ", yet they a happen to be very nice people. On the otherhand, I know some folks who are total assholes, yet lead very interesting lives, and act the part of it.

So you see, prickness and boring are two entirely different traits that don't always exist in the same person. :deal

 

.............................and yet Hopkins figured out how to do it.:-((

 

Hopkins and his fans **** me off too. Am I the only one who doesn't consider him a top 10 middleweight? His record is extremely thin at that weight. His biggest wins were over small fighters, who unlike people like Hearns, Duran, Toney etc., did nothing at the weight Hopkins fought them at. His two best wins are probably Johnson and Eastman, as they were a far bigger threat to him than Tito, DLH or Winky was.

I do like those last three fighters a lot though, so I may be biased. His record is not that impressive though. The two losses to Taylor, him struggling with Mercado and being outclassed against Jones are more telling of his talents than beating a figher who looked out of shape at 170lbs.

De La Hoya should have lost against Sturm. Tito didn't beat anyone of real substance at 160lbs and his power, his main strength, was inneffective there. Winky was in awful shape and again, was way past his prime weight.

It's laughable people nominate him for being the greatest middleweight of all-time. I'd put Winky ahead of him for sure.

Inside the ring he is horrible to watch. Outside the ring he is horrible to listen to.

 

Tarver. So much talk for such a mediocre fight record.

 

Eh, I wouldn't be too hard on Winky. He's a light-middleweight who took a chance that going in heavy would work as well for him as it did for Michael Spinks, Evander Holyfield and even James Toney. Instead it worked for him about as well as it did for Vasily Jirov at heavyweight.

I don't think Winky was so much out of shape as bogged down by trying to bulk up.

In the old days a guy trying to nab a belt at a heavier weight class wouldn't bulk up much. He'd stay at his ideal weight and plan on keeping his familiar ability to move while trying to avoid being tired out by the bigger man from body blows, clinching, etc.

 

Well they do in this case you boring *****. :good

 

Frazier. It pisses me off that he won't let his hatred for Ali go. He has been bitter for so long. I don't really dislike him though, I just find it sad & annoying that such a great fighter could hold a grudge and ill feeling for so long.