Do you let a boxer's life outside the ring influence your opinion of him?

[DiegoFuego]

This comment makes me laugh.... The entire reason you no longer like B-Hop you said is because he complained outside the ring about the decision in Taylor/Hopkins 1...

He complained in the ring now didn't he?

This is strictly non-boxing things the fighters do if you are unclear about that. I hate Wladimir Klitschko for choosing to duke it out in the courtroom rather than rematch TOS because he knew TOS would KO him.

[DiegoFuego]

Hopkins' life outside the ring was a history of juvenile delinquency and a prison sentence. I don't care about any of that. But complaining you were screwed in a close fight and saying, "Whoever lands the most punches and does the most damage" wins the fight is grounds for a loss of respect. To think, this guy was undefeated for 12 years and didn't even know the rules! LOL!!

[DiegoFuego]

I just wanna thank GodzHand for giving me bad karma as opposed to arguing with me like a man. Mad props, bro.

[MetalVomit]

Then next time read the original post before chiming in, k? You're not allowed at the adult table anymore. Go back to the little kids' table until you learn that life lesson.

This whole thread has to do with your respect for a fighter based on his in-ring accomplishments. The purpose is to point out the people that hate a fighter based on something he does outside the ring that isn't boxing related. You said you lost respect for Corrales and Mayweather but still like to watch them. I asked if their wife-beating incidents made you not like them anymore, but you said you like to watch them. 1.WELL, THEN, OBVIOUSLY THOSE INCIDENTS DIDN'T CHANGE YOUR LIKING OF THEM, NOW DID IT? I clearly said I had no opinion on what Corrales did to his wife because I only know him as a boxer and that's all I'm ever meant to know him as.

1. Just because they've done what I'm against, doesnt mean I'm going to "go against" them. I lost respect, but at the same time, still like to watch them fight. Relax.


When did I say I dont watch them, because they've beaten their women. I lost respect for them, because I'm truly against beating women, but I still watch them fight. You're reading way too much into this. I responded to the title of the thread, not your post. Don't go so far out of your way to ATTEMPT to put me on blast. For the last time. I lose respect for any man that beats a women, but in Floyd, and Corrales' cases, I still watch them fight, I dont just automatically HATE them because they've beaten women, I simply think less of them, that's it, and that's all. OK? Still @ me?

[MetalVomit]

I just wanna thank GodzHand for giving me bad karma as opposed to arguing with me like a man. Mad props, bro.

Oh, no. Don't worry, I gave you bad karma, and responded. What's the matter? Didnt get what you wanted for Christmas? Let's keep this about boxing.

[DiegoFuego]

LOL, now you fight. All I gotta do is let everybody know what's up, and the little tough guy comes running, guns blazing. There's two sides you can take on the issue and you took neither. I'm telling you to take one.

1. You lose respect for fighters based on what they do outside the ring.

2. You care about the boxing and judge them by that.

Which is it?

[MetalVomit]

LOL, now you fight. All I gotta do is let everybody know what's up, and the little tough guy comes running, guns blazing. There's two sides you can take on the issue and you took neither. I'm telling you to take one.

1. You lose respect for fighters based on what they do outside the ring.

2. You care about the boxing and judge them by that.

Which is it?

For the record, I gave you bad karma for the post of you calling me a hypocrite, not a boxing related post. The line can blur, it doesnt have to be "Diego beat the **** out of his wife so I hate him and will never cheer for him or watch him fight again". The man's a human being, we all make mistakes. Do I think less of him for hitting his wife? Yes. Do I still respect his skills and enjoy his fights? Yes. I can't just cancel him out because he made a mistake, but I can think less of him. It doesnt have to just be one or the other.


Also, my apologies for not responding immediately after you post, I'm trying to do laundry, clean the house, and what not on my day off. Pardon me for not rushing to my computer every 45 seconds to see if someone replied to a post I've made.

[supaduck]

Most of the time I don't let their personality outside of the ring discourage me from liking them, but if someone is an enormous ******* outside the ring (i.e Gerald Mclellan, Mike Tyson) I lose respect for them as a person, not as a fighter. If someone has a great personality outside the ring (Foreman, Ali) I don't gain respect for their fighting skills (though in the case of those two I already hold them in highest regard), but gain respect for them as people. I.e I'd say Sonny Liston was a nutcase and a sociopath whom I wouldn't like to have met, but i'd still have cheered him on in a fight.

[TheBlackWallStreet]

"Mayweather went to trial for a domestic violence charge, facing a minimum of one year in prison if he were convicted. Mayweather had been accused of violence against his former girlfriend, Josie Harris. Harris had claimed that Mayweather had punched and kicked her during an argument in Mayweather's Bentley, outside a Las Vegas nightclub in 2003. During the trial, however, Harris admitted that she had lied on the initial police report, and testified that Mayweather never hit her. The jury acquitted Mayweather"

The real people who are *******s are you guys for judging people you have no right to judge. Go take a look in the mirror you might see the real Jerk, *******, prick. Appreciate these people who entertain us by risking their lives in the ring and stop looking at their life outside of it because we don’t live with them day to day and don’t see what’s really going on with them. Now do we?

[MetalVomit]

The real people who are *******s are you guys for judging people you have no right to judge. Go take a look in the mirror you might see the real Jerk, *******, prick. Appreciate these people who entertain us by risking their lives in the ring and stop looking at their life outside of it because we don’t live with them day to day and don’t see what’s really going on with them. Now do we?

Funny how DiegoFuego tries to call me out, then when I respond, he's got nothing to say (<---just returning the favor). It's true, the saying, "who are we to judge them", but when following sports, and the insane media coverage behind them, it's almost impossible to not hear about what athletes get in trouble for. True I dont live with them day to day, but I cannot help but lose respect for a MAN that BEATS a WOMAN.