Just talking about the mental aspect. Option A: A loud, charismatic **** talker who embarrasses you and is the crowd favorite. Think Muhammad Ali. Like it or not, because he's a big crowd favorite, you might be on the end of a bad decision with everyone cheering for a jab he misses, and meeting a flush left hook/right uppercut you land with silence. Option B: An aggressive guy with a psycho personality. Think Roberto Duran or Mike Tyson. The classical bully. Option C: A fighter who appears cold and emotionless, and will do whatever it takes to win. A fighting machine with only one goal: to knock you out. Think Joe Louis or Carlos Monzon.
Probably option A. Even if the fighter doesn't intimidate you, I would imagine most guys would find having 20000 people laughing at them or booing them pretty rough
Probably C. A man who appears to have no emotion no matter what he does to you or what you do to him and just carries on with what he is doing is quite of putting. B would be scary but it could just be for show. Also alot of the psycho types are quite mentally weak and break down if you can weather their storm and fight back. Option A wouldn't intimadate me at all. The fact that the judges may get swayed by the crowds reaction would bother me but a loud mouth who throws out insults isn't really intimadating. I kind of liked Ali's taunts. There was some humour in it and i would find it funny if i was on the recieving end. However, the Mayweather, Toney type of taunting is rather pathetic and dull and would probably send me to sleep faster than a right hook from either of them.
Probably a tie between B and C. Both guys come in with bad intentions and try to take you out with fury.
Mike Tyson. Brutal Power and Amazing HW Speed and his famous quote that "wants to push the cartilage in your nose in to your brain." Thats intimidating. Option B.
Definately C. Option B the psychos are what i like to fight. Usually they have no control and that is whne they make mistakes which mean you can punish them everytime they do. Also as stated above they tend to break down easier when things dont go their way.
I agree. However, on Ali, while most of it was funny, it went pretty far. Frazier's kids were bullied at school because of it. I guess it just made Frazier fight even harder though. But Liston stated he didn't want to fight "that mad man", and we saw what happened there. Foreman was psyched out as well, and he later went on record of saying that he felt he wasn't just fighting Ali, but every African in Congo and in fact he did. That's why he adopted the crowd-friendly approach in his comeback, and it may have gotten him close/gift decisions against Stewart and Schulz. Also remember that Patterson and Terrel were humiliated by the "say my name sucker!" in the ring. He definitely had a dark side to him.
Most great fighters do have that side, its part of what made them great in the ring if not perfect outside of it.
