What Is A Hater?

[Addison]

Your definition of a hater within the context of our sport.

[MANGLER]

Someone without an objective opinion on ****. Their clouded by their dislike for a fighter and refuse to give him credit regardless of his accomplishments. They'll usually degrade a fighter they hate on without backin up the hate with proven facts as to why he sucks, is overrated, would lose to so and so, etc. And of course bein a rival to a hater's favorite fighter is an invitation for hate from ignorant people.

[abadger]

Your definition of a hater within the context of our sport.

Someone who's main agenda is not to support a boxer but to disparage another. Even worse when they basically ignore that boxers achievements and say they are no good when they clearly are.

[Addison]

Someone without an objective opinion on ****. Their clouded by their dislike for a fighter and refuse to give him credit regardless of his accomplishments. They'll usually degrade a fighter they hate on without backin up the hate with proven facts as to why he sucks, is overrated, would lose to so and so, etc. And of course bein a rival to a hater's favorite fighter is an invitation for hate from ignorant people.

Excellent post, agreed.

Someone who's main agenda is not to support a boxer but to disparage another. Even worse when they basically ignore that boxers achievements and say they are no good when they clearly are.

Good points here as well.

[Left2body]

Someone who will root for whoever is going against a certain team/fighter/athlete.

Its different than just liking one guy more than another, HATE has to be rooting for anyone who goes against them.

i.e. A Yankee fan would cheer for his team to beat Oakland A's and root against the A's during the game or series but wouldn't necessarily cheer against them if they played someone else.

Many Yankee fans would cheer for whatever team went against the Boston and vice versa.

[Fox McCloud]

Someone who puts points on a certain fighter's opponent three fights in a row, even though they keep winning.

[ElGranLuchador]

Someone who puts points on a certain fighter's opponent three fights in a row, even though they keep winning.

yes indeed there is so much hate against calzaghe in this forum

[javelin_fangs]

A hater is someone who can't offer an objective opinion due to their hate for a boxer. An example of this would be someone who says Cory Spinks sucks and is bad for boxing because he is a "runner." The objective fact is that Cory Spinks is actually a two division champion who also went heads up with the legitimate champion in a third division. Any objective opinion would say that Spinks is very good. But a hater only makes statements based on some personal bias and will not see beyond that bias regardless of what anyone else says.

So, the reason we see so many people being called Mayweather haters is because much of the criticism is based on style as opposed to substance. The criticism that is based on substance (e.g. critique of opponents) is heavily biased (i.e. "Margarito has never had an easy fight...while Mayweather fights nothing but hand picked opponents.") requires such an extreme lack of proper discernment that one would have to disregard many facts in order to believe it.

The problem with haters is that they really do not intend to have a debate at all. Instead, they want everyone to think as they do, which is in a decidedly biased way. If people present them with facts that run counter to the hater's biases then the hater will usually either repeat the same refuted opinion over and over or try to discredit the fact-monger's credibility with wild left field statements and accusations.

[Scoooter]

Addison's a hater.

[Boogie Nights]

Definition of Hate: when floyd fans see a post saying that cotto has got even a remote chance of beating floyd with reasonable points. You cant reason with those "haters" because all they see is that ****sucker flashing his smile while counting his dough.

the result of that hate: Lot's of red k's, and one star ratings, one over the other is not enough, they want it both.......****'s redicilous