Who is your least favorite all-time champion?

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  1. quintonjacksonfan

    quintonjacksonfan Active Member Full Member

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    They have to be IBF,WBA or WBC champion. you found them boring,dodged opponents, or simply disliked the guy or any other reason you did not like the fighter

    My two least favorite are Monzon and Wladimir Klitschko. I found them so boring. I doubt I'll ever watch one of their championship fights ever again
     
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    AwardedSteak863 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    From a boxing perspective, John Ruiz. Carlos Baldomir is up there because of what a piece of **** person he is. Ricardo Mayorga was also easy too root against.
     
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  3. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    There are millions of champions that were absolutely awful that reigned for one night.

    Charles "I stride this earth like a God" Martin was supposed to be nothing but an opponent for a vacant abc, his basic job to lose to lose to Vyacheslav Glazkov but Glazkov blew out his knee so Charles had himself a strap. He auctioned it off to the highest bidder, travelling to the UK to fall over for Anthony Joshua. Pretty objectionable all round.

    Sometimes these one and done champs are quite likeable, but Martin had zero redeeming qualities really and got rich off losing after being elevated to a position he had no business being in before lucking out.

    If you find Monzon and Wladimir boring by comparison, that's a matter of taste (Though odd IMO), but at least they deserved to be where they landed.
     
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  4. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I came to dislike SRL, though I still know he was an Excellent Boxer...

    I wasn't particularly fond of Vinny the Paz' ienza either.

    BHop, bar his 1st Class beating of Pavlik, didn't do it for me.

    PBF, we all hated, though not as much as his wannabe Broner

    JC, I wanted him to be a little bit more than he was, Boxing Wise.

    TF has got to go... he never should have even came to be honest, though he really is not at all a bad fella.

    others I'm sure.
     
  5. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Czyz
    Pazienza

    There's something particularly annoying about overhyped fighters with the right matchmaking and connections who still think of themselves as boxing royalty somehow. Not an ounce of fraud complex in either of these two, that's for sure. Frankly, that's all I consider them to be.
     
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  6. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I see it with Pazienza, but in fairness to Czyz, he did a pretty good job or reinventing himself at cruiser once the LHW run had dried up.
     
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  8. Philosopher

    Philosopher Active Member Full Member

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    I could not stand Eubank at the time, yet viewed with less hostile eyes, and afforded the cushion of perspective, he wasn't bad, was he?
     
  9. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Canelo
    Wilder
     
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  10. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Nah. He barely squeaked by a nonentity in Robert Daniels for the title. Even with that setup he almost blew it, then went on bragging about being a three-time world champion like he was Joe Louis or something. Barf.
     
  11. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Robert Daniels was not a non-entity!
     
  12. Dorrian_Grey

    Dorrian_Grey It came to me in a dream Full Member

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    I like Roy Jones as a person and even think he was a remarkable talent in the ring but his career was a joke for the most part and no-one else is so tremendously blown out of proportion in terms of ability to the point that some fans actually claim he was "invincible" in his prime. Were he rightly viewed as a solid champion with a few good wins but an underwhelming career where he missed a number of big names, I would have no problem whatsoever with Roy. Yet he's heralded as a top 20 guy by many and considered a mythical H2H monster, and that I just can't really stand.
    I try to make a point of not holding hatred for people though and most of the guys I used to hate thoroughly (like Canelo, Floyd, or Fury for example) I've now come to appreciate for their skill and as people in many instances.
     
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  13. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I'm sure he was very nice and all fighters deserve respect for what they do, but if ever anyone benefitted from existing in the alphabet title era, it's him. A split verdict over and old and worn Qawi, going the distance with a one-legged challenger in Bodzianowski, then drawing with someone named Tafouik Belboui before losing to Mr. Mensa.
     
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  14. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I never liked Amir Khan, never looked forward to his fights...
     
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  15. thistle

    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    the PRINCE, the *****!