Which boxers do you hate?

[Beanflicker]

Hate is a pretty strong word. They only guys I really HATE are the criminal scumbags in the sport like Margacheato.

Other than that, I love to root against British fighters. Mainly because I can't stand the majority of British boxing fans and British boxing analysts/commentators. So goddamn unappologetically biased and pig headed. Ricky Hatton's bunch were so bad I thanked god when Floyd iced him. I know there are a lot of chaps from England who don't fall into this catagory (a lot on this site), but the large group that do have soured me so much I will more often then not root against British fighters, just for fact that its disappointing this horrid group.

[kingfrnk]

Great post beanflicker.

[erics44]

Hate is a pretty strong word. They only guys I really HATE are the criminal scumbags in the sport like Margacheato.

Other than that, I love to root against British fighters. Mainly because I can't stand the majority of British boxing fans and British boxing analysts/commentators. So goddamn unappologetically biased and pig headed. Ricky Hatton's bunch were so bad I thanked god when Floyd iced him. I know there are a lot of chaps from England who don't fall into this catagory (a lot on this site), but the large group that do have soured me so much I will more often then not root against British fighters, just for fact that its disappointing this horrid group.

american commentatory is a joke in britain, its often ridiculed

it makes me laugh a lot

[Drago]

Hate is a pretty strong word. They only guys I really HATE are the criminal scumbags in the sport like Margacheato.

Other than that, I love to root against British fighters. Mainly because I can't stand the majority of British boxing fans and British boxing analysts/commentators. So goddamn unappologetically biased and pig headed. Ricky Hatton's bunch were so bad I thanked god when Floyd iced him. I know there are a lot of chaps from England who don't fall into this catagory (a lot on this site), but the large group that do have soured me so much I will more often then not root against British fighters, just for fact that its disappointing this horrid group.

most brits know fk all abt boxing especially the hatton fans & now many of the haye fans know fk all abt boxing, but thats exactly the same with american fans, whenever i been in the states they knew fk all they all thought riddick bowe had beaten lennox lewis as a professional? i mean i nearly got into a fight over that with a bunch of yanks

[Beanflicker]

most brits know fk all abt boxing especially the hatton fans & now many of the haye fans know fk all abt boxing, but thats exactly the same with american fans, whenever i been in the states they knew fk all they all thought riddick bowe had beaten lennox lewis as a professional? i mean i nearly got into a fight over that with a bunch of yanks

Oh most definately, I know there are a ton of knowledgable, cool-as-hell Brit fans and a lot of stupid, stupid yanks (I'm canadian by the way).

On the subject of commentary, I know there are terrible yank announcers. It just seems like most of the Brit commentators are terribly biased and go out of their way to protect their fighters. David Haye landed huge bombs to the back of John Ruiz's head, clear as day, and the British broadcasters on the vid I watched were disrespecting Ruiz calling him a crybaby and a faker, even after watching a slow motion replay clearly showing Haye smoke him in the back of the head. After the 3rd or 4th replay one finally "conceeded" that there was a small punch to the back of the head, but it was as Ruiz was going down (he wasn't).

I've never heard Jim Lampley, Harold Letterman, Teddy Atlas, ect ect ever protect a guy just because he was an American fighting a foreigner. You don't get that. They'll make retarded points, or they'll be TOO critical of a fighter, but you never get the feeling that they are blatantly trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

[El Kabong]

I do hate it when guys like Merchant and Sugar come down too hard on fights or fighters.....FFS there are bad fights every so often, don't act like each fight you see is the worst you've ever seen. Not every fight can be Gatti-Ward or Corrales-Castillo! And not every heavyweight bout can be Bowe-Holyfield. But you only hear those two cheer on certain fighters everyone else is a bum.


Man I've never been so happy to see Larry Merchant get his old heart broken by Cris Arreola vs Vitali...that was good ....and to hear Lampley's "BANG! BAM! BOFF! POW!" shtick just made it all the more satisfying knowing Old Larry had to sit there right beside Lampley while he was describing how bad Larry's boy was getting pounded...just a bonus to him watching it ringside

[rjj tszyu]

I do hate it when guys like Merchant and Sugar come down too hard on fights or fighters.....FFS there are bad fights every so often, don't act like each fight you see is the worst you've ever seen. Not every fight can be Gatti-Ward or Corrales-Castillo! And not every heavyweight bout can be Bowe-Holyfield. But you only hear those two cheer on certain fighters everyone else is a bum.


Man I've never been so happy to see Larry Merchant get his old heart broken by Cris Arreola vs Vitali...that was good ....and to hear Lampley's "BANG! BAM! BOFF! POW!" shtick just made it all the more satisfying knowing Old Larry had to sit there right beside Lampley while he was describing how bad Larry's boy was getting pounded...just a bonus to him watching it ringside

Is Merchant a Arreola fan?? Thats shocked me quite a bit! I have a lot of DVD's with Larry on commentary but not much recent stuff so I've never really heard him talk about big fat Chris.

[El Kabong]

Is Merchant a Arreola fan?? Thats shocked me quite a bit! I have a lot of DVD's with Larry on commentary but not much recent stuff so I've never really heard him talk about big fat Chris.

He hasn't said much since then...but DAMN Larry was high on Arreola he wanted Cris to show what a "real heavyweight fights like"

[rjj tszyu]

Is Merchant a Arreola fan?? Thats shocked me quite a bit! I have a lot of DVD's with Larry on commentary but not much recent stuff so I've never really heard him talk about big fat Chris.

He hasn't said much since then...but DAMN Larry was high on Arreola he wanted Cris to show what a "real heavyweight fights like"

Jesus he's got an hard on for Arreola. I really don't know why. I never have had much faith in him providing the goods. Maybe he's just desperate for an American HW champ. Personally I'd give Briggs more of a shot and I don't give him much of one.