'Fans' excuse, good reason to dislike a boxer?

[The Gambler1981]

Cool hand Luke said that? Man I haven't seen that film in so long that made me want to hop on the interwebz and have a refresher lol.

Nah that is the Warden I think, but that is the most famous lines from that movie.

Still it works here because there are always consequences for ones actions if they get out of line. That is just how it is.

[Dr Rumack]

You still have to stand over your criticisms.

[Chuckguy]

Do you think it is a reasonable excuse to dislike boxers because of their fans? There are fans that may make you cringe and annoy you but is that a good reason to not support boxers even if they are good?

It a ****** reason but I'm guilty of it

[Chuckguy]

i love ggg but im curious what happens when he lose..they keep saying he getting ducked...that not his opponent fault he shoulf get a better promtoer..if he was with haymon or bob he wpuld have been a superstar by now..

I'm a huge GGG fan! If he loses then so be it. Who knows he can be one of those b level fighters that can't beat the top dogs that remains to be seen

[Canelo Phresh]

Do you think it is a reasonable excuse to dislike boxers because of their fans? There are fans that may make you cringe and annoy you but is that a good reason to not support boxers even if they are good?

Prime Pacquiao fans (08-13) Mayweather fans (always) Eurobum fans. Theyre all annoying.

[BoxingLegend89']

nationality and race

[Guest]

The fan base doesn't affect my view of a fighter.

Boxing scene does have plenty of poor winners as well as poor losers.

Some guys just seem to take this **** too seriously so the guys that don't use anything they can to rile them up.

I do also try to divorce the fighter as a person versus how he fights in the ring.
I try to focus on how the guy fights and not really who he is, though sometimes that's hard.

[In Motion]

Absolutely. How the hell do you expect me to be a fan of someone whose majority of fans are racist and bigots? That doesn't make any sense.

That'd be like me being a fan of the KKK organization because they do "some" charity work. Sure, I like seeing charity work, but I still don't like what they stand for.

Sure, I can appreciate GGG's (limited) skillset but when 90% of his fanbase only like him because he's white and is the supposed "anti-slick boxing killer" I can't appreciate that.

[Chuckguy]

Absolutely. How the hell do you expect me to be a fan of someone whose majority of fans are racist and bigots? That doesn't make any sense.

That'd be like me being a fan of the KKK organization because they do "some" charity work. Sure, I like seeing charity work, but I still don't like what they stand for.

Sure, I can appreciate GGG's (limited) skillset but when 90% of his fanbase only like him because he's white and is the supposed "anti-slick boxing killer" I can't appreciate that.

Ink you talk about racism and yet hate on anyone that doesn't **** ride a black fighter so who is racist?

[ramplamp]

I don't like it when any fighter's fanbase becomes raving mad and completely biased in his favor no matter what. But the flipside of that is there are always the obsessive detractors too, so it goes both ways. I try to remain as objective as possible, even though naturally we can't help but cheer for certain guys here and there.

Thurman fans bug me most these days, because it seems like they cheer for him more for what he says outside of the ring than what he does inside it. He's fought only a couple legit welterweights and spent 3/4s of his last two fights circling the ring nonstop and putting everyone to sleep. But because he talks a lot and says he wants to fight everyone (hasn't proven it though), and because he has the high KO ratio his fans act like he's the Mike Tyson of welterweights and everyone is "ducking him."