Name a bunch of fighters you like and dislike

Like: Dwight Muhammad Qawi, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Floyd Mayweather Jr, James Toney, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Michael Watson, Julian Jackson.

Dislike: Vitali Klitschko, Joe Calzaghe, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Yuriorkis Gamboa.

 

I think it might be more they don't excite him, or get his juices flowing rather than he actively dislikes them.

 

Ike Williams, Kid Chocolate, Jose Napoles, Marvin Hagler, Willie Pep, Archie Moore, Roberto Duran, Carlos Ortiz, Emile Griffith, Ezzard Charles, Henry Armstrong, Bob Foster, Carlos Monzon, Jimmy Carter, Joe Louis, Salvador Sanchez, Kid Gavilan, Joey Giardello...

Hate 'em.

 

It depends on my mood really. I can get into any fighter that displays skill. I like aggressive fighters normally, but a finely balanced boxer with defensive skills is gratifying to watch too, although in a different sense obviously.

It's easier for me to list boxers I either don't like watching or I just don't like:

Henry Armstrong.

He just doesn't interest me, and usually I like watching swarmers. I don't quite understand why, but he just doesn't do it for me.

Naseem Hamed

I just don't like him, full stop. I always rooted for his opponents.

Chris Byrd

Boring and overrated. Next.

John Ruiz

They should have called him The Sandman. Boring.

Post Rosario Hector Camacho

Too scared to get hit.

Post Barkley Roberto Duran

Content to take the money and eat.

 

Don't dislike a lot of fighters or anything, do you?

 

the fighters i love best are your come-forward brawler types. people like tyson,duran,frazier, foreman, hagler, benn, mclellan,barrera,calzaghe, tszyu, lamotta, hatton .
having said that i have respect for all styles, the more defensive-minded fighters like ali, jones jnr ,mayweather, whitaker, hopkins ,eubank ,watson ,leonard, got a lot of time for them too.

 

Barney Ross, Joey Giardello, Greb, Mickey Walker, Conn, Zale, the complete Murderer's Row, early Dempsey, Barrera, Azumah Nelson, Steve Collins, Jofre, Robinson, Arguello, JM Marquez, Hagler, a wide array of Philadelphia Fighters from the 60s and 70s, McCallum, Pep, Liston, Pacquiao, Hearns, Marciano, Benny Leonard, and obviously Duran.

I did not appreciate Pryor, Camacho, Roy Jones, Ruiz, Hamed, Nunn, Mayweather, and any number of HWs active in the early to mid 80s.

 

Like:

Gatti, Ward, Hopkins, Hagler, Hearns, Wright, Frazier, Holyfield, Pacquiao, De La Hoya, Augustus, Whitaker, Leonard, Pryor, Arguello, Mosley, Chavez, Duran, Armstrong, Monzon, Louis, Byrd, Barrera

Dislike:

Vargas, Hamed, Ruiz, Camacho, LaMotta, Mayorga, RJJ, Morales

(I appreciate all fighters for their willingness to fight - to take such a risk - but I generally dislike these fighters for their personality, while appreciating their skills ~ except for Mayorga, who I don't like in any shape or fashion)