Why are people so attracted to classless fighters?

[GUEVARA]

Ask the flowmos? Its their thing

They are too concerned with the "image" the WWE entertainment thing that they forget boxing is bigger than that.

[FightScorer]

First of all:

All these rumors about boxer's private lives are just rumors and nothing can be confirmed. NOT TO MENTION we don't know what really happened.

I just want to bring out a situation that happened at my university.
This girl in a Soriety was making fun of my friend's sister who was in a wheel chair, so my friend went up to her and said 'shut the **** up you ****** slut'
some other guys walk by without realizing the situation and they were like 'wow that's how you talk to girls right? nice going"
See.. You don't know the whole situation.


Beating up a sweet innocent girl who did nothing to you is very different from beating up some druggie girl who is attacking you with a god damn knife.
You weren't there for ANYthing that happened to a boxer so you can not judge.


2nd of all. Only morons will compare Ali to Floyd in their 'personalities and approach'

Muhammad Ali stood for something in a time period that had a massive amount of controversy and hate in the country of America. Muhammad Ali was not an arrrogant *******, he simply stood up for what he honestly believe in.


If you can't tell the difference between Muhammad Ali calling Ernie Terrell an 'uncle tom' for using the name Clay and Floyd calling Manny Steward an 'uncle tom' for training Wladimir Klithscko, than you don't know **** about boxing or societal history.


Third of all.
The amount of 'nice guy' boxers that sold are countless, from Cooney to Quarry, from Oscar to the Kbros in Europe. There are many ways to sell, and it don't matter which way you use tbh but saying that 'only certain ways' sell is ignorant and ******ed.

[LeG00N]

I'm not... I hate Broner, Bradley and Mayfield

[richardt]

I saw the headline and thought, I have no idea why people are attracted to a Classless, Racist Jerk like Broner. Actually, I do why.

[richardt]

And why anyone would back Eric "Little hands on 15 year olds" Morel. He gang ****d a 15 year old girl and people still wanted to see him with the title.

[Ray Corso]

If you consider yourself an entertainer instead of a boxer than hire someone in the publicity field to align yourself to the segment of the population to maximize your highest potental in earnings!! How the hell to you think RJ3 and other black athletes that are high profile entertainers can sell sandwiches and SUV's? You don't have to be a freakin genius to figure out how to set an imagine that the masses can appeal to. This Floyd Jr. is biggest dope in boxing history, he acts like a a fool and certainly had the talents and enough sensability to gravitate to a legit business world that would secure him forever and give him legit ins into other venues that his current personality and associates will never venture into. He talks about making money but he's left outside millions on the table because he's a gangsta hows he making out as a 55 year old gangsta!!
Not to mention lifting the sport that allowed him to earn millions so that the sport might return to prominence. Gangsta of ******ity!! Ray

[Chuckguy]

Because trash sells. Look at the popularity of shows like family guy(love it), jersey shore, real housewives hate them! A real nice guy like SSM and Andre Ward aren't big sellers as far as PPV and live gate. They are both super talented and entertaining but because they don't talk trash and act like a bunch of idiots like mayweather broner and bam bam.

[ArtThouFurious?]

"Class" has no place in a sport like boxing. A "Classy individual" wouldn't choose a profession where you dole out brain damage to other human beings for a paycheck.

There's no such thing as a professional boxer with "class". It's a fuggin oxymoron.

[Doctor_Tenma]

Then again you got a large percentage of fans who judge fighters based on anything other than their works in the ring. People act as if though these fighters are gonna be a part of their lives, I couldn't care less about personality. For example I don't like Victor Ortiz, I would say he's the worse personality in the sport but if his style was appealing to me I'd stand behind him.

[eurochamp]

This is the question I always want to ask Klitschko fans.
I want you to answer since you seem to be one.

If a Prime Lennox Lewis was around in today's division with his class and his lack of trash talking. Will you be his fan?

If Klitschkos were Jamician British fighters from London instead of Ukraine?

Will you be their fans still? Same personality, same skills, same achivements. but they are now Jamicians from London. What happens?

Lennox Lewis was a great fighter and i wish he were around today.