Legitmate Good People In Boxing...

They seem far and few in-between.

I guess boxing is the ultimate "hard luck" sport, and it seems almost a pre-resiquete that someone has a hard background to get into it. A desperate life on the street or in poverty that creates the hunger to escape from it, to train that hard, and so on. That's the story of a lot of fighters, especially great ones. De La Hoya, Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Liston, Frazier.

Time spent in prison at one time or another. Hopkins, Barkley, Ike, Tyson.

Having a profession where you beat men to the point where they can't defend themselves and nothing else... Says a few things all by itself. Not a profession that's going to breed nice people wholesale, I guess.

What fighters have no glaring personality flaws so typical with the fight game?

Which ones don't make excuses about drugged tea like Jeffries?

What fighters wouldn't revert to headbutting you into a coma like Holyfield?

Which fighters would never think of hitting someone outside the ring?

I can think of very few fighters, and one of them is Hearns.

Guy was SMILING and congratulating Ray Leonard after waiting years to avenge his first loss and being screwed with a draw decision.

Guy was pure class.

Who else?

 

Jeffries admitted he couldn't beat Johnson, even in his prime, shortly after the fight.

Story changed to the "spiked tea" one later on.

 

Earl Grey... Blargh.

More of a white tea guy myself.

 

Why?

 

What, green tea does? :think