Fighters you were critical of but changed your mind to their advantage.

Floyd Mayweather

I never believed he was as good as he said he was - I still dont - but he proved to me that he is better than I would allow myself to believe he was as I didnt like him.

 

Hopkins,Toney,Mayweather,Micky Ward,Calzage,Lewis

 

Rocky Marciano. I used to think he was disgustingly overrated, now I think he was quite good.

 

Danny Zaragoza.

Southpaw but fought with a wide open stance. That left of his seemed to come from about 5 feet away but it landed anyway. So easy to hit in there and cut easily. Always was the road warrior and fighting in the other guy's backyard. Often gave up huge age advantages to youthful fighters.

But the guy wouldn't quit and never got discourraged in a fight. Always in shape. Dogged determination and always found a way to make his style effective in there. It probably wasn't until the Morales fight that he got taken apart in a fight. And I thought his style/tools was going to get taken apart numerous times.

Nice to see him in the hall of fame because he sure didn't get too many breaks when he was fighting.

 

actually Jermaine Taylor didnt know that much about him before the Froch fight thought he was boring and that

but then watched old tapes of him and he was good real good and a nice guy