Not to mention any times but a lot of boxers have colourful histories and lifestyles in boxing. Will your judgement or affinity for a boxer be affected by time spent in prison, criminal charges, bad political views...tweets or so on? Or do you judge boxers purely on their contribution to boxing within a ring?
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Does a fighters lifestyle outside the ring affect how you view him as a boxer?
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It depends really.
If he goes on murdering babies or that sort of thing ofcourse it does . besides that, not really.
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If it's good then yeah I'll be happy and if not then I don't care. So, Chris Algieri's #championlifestyle is something I look up to. Not that he is my favorite fighter, but I do believe he is one heck of a talent.
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Yes on the stuff that can affect their health/body. But even then...it depends on who it is though, because there have been many fighters who can live fast, drink, etc and show up on fight night and kick ass.
Criminal stuff.. unless it's something heinous, I don't really care. If they did their time then I'm good with that. For troubled people like that, I see boxing as an outlet, as the final stop, hopefully a deterrent from that sort of life. I give them a shot to redeem themselves and hope that they do
Political views...I always felt that boxing was one of the last bastions of free speech in sports - we hear all sort of **** that would never fly in other sports. I prefer it like that.
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