Is Anthony Joshua the biggest Face turned Heel switch in Boxing history?

[VislorTurlough]

His turn was from baby face to jobber.

[Hustle]

floyd is the greatest heel turn of all time. Because he did it on purpose. It was a plan and it worked.

Tyson heel turn was forced on him by the media. He started to give them what they write. And even then his true fans still seen him as a babyface. Even til this day

Joshua heel turn came from the embarrassment of losing. He was tired of pretending to be a good guy. Eddie made him a face. But after those usyk losses, he turned heel and still got knocked out. So now he's just lost.

Mayorga is the goat heel tho

[Hustle]

Tyson is up there too, he was a beloved young kid in the 80’s and by the late 90’s and 00’s he was biting ears, committing **** and threatening to eat people’s children.

I always thought Mayorga had a great face/heel dynamic. You could love him one minute and hate him the next. The Eddie Guerrero of boxing.

He's the goat heel. He never been a face tho. More like a attitude era guy where he's both at the same time.

Forrest
Mosley
Trinidad
De la hoya
Vargas
Cotto

He was the heel in them all

[QueensburyRules]

- - The Ring Belt governed by a bunch of wimpy sycophants deserved to get thrown out by AJ who was clearly the best heavy before Usyk...

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

He's the goat heel. He never been a face tho. More like a attitude era guy where he's both at the same time.

Forrest
Mosley
Trinidad
De la hoya
Vargas
Cotto

He was the heel in them all

Yeah he was that heel you rooted for. The same way Eddie would “lie, cheat, steal” yet the crowd loved it.

[ELPacman]

I never looked at AJ like he turned heel for doing that in the ring. Just thought it was a sore loser move in the moment with all the energy and adrenaline going through him. My thoughts about him being a positive/negative guy never really changed because of it.

While there are not many fighters you could consider total good guy/hero images, I'd say a few maintained their normal image and maybe flipped around to a more darker side. As folks said, Margarito is a good example for good reason. Though prior to that, I never saw him as a "good" guy anyway.

Current ODLH actually talks as if he's turned heel because he said on a podcast that everything you saw of him when he was younger was total BS that he was told to behave as to create the image. There was a lot of fake stories made up just for the headlines and who he is now was really who he always was.

The media loves to create an image of someone, even if it's stretched/exaggerated. Look at Pacquiao post Hatton KO. You can literally see the camera man telling Pacquiao to get down and pray in the corner because they were marketing Pacquiao as this spiritual/religious guy and you had to love him for that aspect (despite punching and KOing folks?). Not sure that made much sense, but it probably worked to some end.

For me, Mayorga was always the heel type of fighter. He smoked during his post fight interviews and wanted to let you know he was a bad motherf**ker. When he'd trash his opponents families at the press conferences, it was zero surprise.

Mayweather turned heel purely financially. It was a fake turn, just to get folks to tune in to see him lose and get those PPV buys because he knew without that, nobody was tuning in. However a part of this quote applies to Mayweather, "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain". Mayweather deep down wishes folks in this country cheered him on and loved him, yet he never got that because he went deep on the villain arch. Now he's living what I see mostly from interviews, a post boxing bitter life. He's got the money, but probably wishes he had love and respect more from fans and this is something money can't buy him.