meant to say love instead of ove, anyway for me it's tyson never realised just how much he was overated especially after his first jail term.
Wladimir Klitschko. I used to think he was the next coming of joe louis until i watched him get starched by a 38 year old fat mediocre golfer, and watched him run out of stamina vs B level brewster......and after watching the peter fight......i realized that he's a giant with incredible physical tools but he lacks the chin, stamina, heart to ever become a great fighter. not to mention hes never beaten a very good fighter.
I don't know about fighters I dislike now, but there are some that I'm indifferent about after liking at first. Oscar De La Hoya is one. James Toney is another. I still love watching his older fights (especially the Barkley fight and first McCallum fight), but his gluttony, laziness, and most of all, 2 failed steroid tests have turned me off. That, and he was part of one of the worst fights I've ever seen, when I went to the HP Pavilion in San Jose to see his last fight (and positive roid test, which was a drug for horses to lose weight). Another is Bernard Hopkins. Too boring, and a part-time fighter like his cross-dressing boss.
Dempsey. i used to (and still do) like his style of fighting but his championship reign was ****-poor and title challengers not the best (a great great promoter saw that there was vast interest in many of his bouts).
I've gone off Holyfield a bit too. i think it's the fact that he keeps on fighting that makes me like him a bit less...oh, and the roid rumours (and the resulting 'silence') put me off too. Still, i don't dislike him, he's just not oneof my very favourites any more. Although when i look back at my best moments of the 1990s he does feature heavily.
Larry Holmes - a great champion who took on boxers he felt he could easily beat An examples would be fighting an inexperienced Witherspoon. He then refuses to give Witherspoon a rematch and ducks Thomas and Page. Sugar Ray Leonard - great talent who avoided rematches like the plague and demanded conditions that favored him before he would fight a big name.
