Have you ever liked a fighter but disliked their fan base?

[b00g13man]

You can add the Ward and Mayweather fan boys to that list as well, there all just as a bad as each other as far as i'm concerned

Says the Cotto fanboy? Loooooooooool.

[NEETzsche]

I was a big fan of Mayweather in his day but the remnants of his fanbase are a plague on online boxing discussion at this point

The Pacfans were worse but at least they ****ed off when he lost

[LetOutTheCage]

Says the Cotto fanboy? Loooooooooool.

^ Mayweather fanboy triggered!

[TheUptownKid]

I dislike ignorance. Fans of every fighter can be foolish. Like what has been said prior, I am a fan of boxing and when my guy has a poor showing I can admit it.

[SkillspayBills]

I'm going through it right now. I love GGG and Loma is my favorite fighter but, I argue with his "fans" more than I do with his haters. Trust me, if you were a fan of Floyd, or Roy, or Sweet Pea fan then you go on the "other side" to be a fan of GGG or Loma you see the rampant hypocrisy on these boards. It's almost amazing that people don't see, or choose to ignore how they bash a fighter for one thing then praise another fighter for doing the same exact thing.

[SkillspayBills]

Thank you for illustrating exactly why it's hard to express my like for these guys on here.^
People frequently try to get some of us to dislike them. They create racial tensions with false flags. I've never shown a bias toward any race or nationality (I have a long, searchable post history that backs that up) but it won't stop people from being intentionally ignorant to the truth.

No matter how hard people try to make me hate those fighters I mentioned, I'll still like them. You guys will just have to live with it. Your racial segregation of fanbases isn't going to change me.

They HATE that you are a fan of "one of theirs" because they try to project their putrid biases on everyone else. An example yesterday, I was talking about how much I love to watch Loma and how special a fighter he is and 10 posts later Beercules goes "if Loma was black he would be Skills favorite fighter" Uhhhhhh, hey moron if you just looked you would see HE IS MY FAVORITE FIGHTER.
It's sad to see smh.

[jqSide]

If you dislike a fighter because of his fans, then that makes you shallow. Or you spend too much time on forums and social media.

I don't even get the connection, not even in cases where the fighter's father is a jerk like Angel. I won't still be a fan even if Angel is truly an angel.

[GhostofDempsey]

There are fighters I like because I like them as boxers or the way they carry themselves--yet they have fans who are only their fans because of their race. I see a lot of so called fans, especially online, who will defend a fighter to the death strictly because they are the same race. To me, that's not a fan. It's ok to have some ethnic pride and cheer on a fighter from your home country or race, but not when you completely dismiss other fighters who aren't of the same race.

[The Big Dunn]

Honestly, I have. Plenty of times at that. I used to love Pac in his prime but his fans really turned me off. Same for Mayweather.

Currently I feel that way about GGG and Gonzalez. I like both fighters, I have bought both of their PPV's and watch their cards on HBO but I can't stand some of their fans. Not all of their audience is gone off the deep end, but the few that are make it difficult for me to speak positively about them on the forum. Even if I do hold them in high regard irl.

I used to be one of the biggest Rigondeaux fans around here. Hell, I bought his book a few years back and read it in one sitting because I was rather intrigued by El Chacal. Sadly, after several poor showings against clearly overmatched men and with his fanatics constantly praising him for "breaking faces", the guy's horrid attitude towards entertainment got tired and old quickly. His fans would take his crap, polish it, heat it up and tried to force feed everyone that crap and pass it off as some amazing, once in a lifetime performance .

Oh well. I would still like to see Rigondeaux vs top names in or around his division. Same goes for Roman and GGG.

What about the rest of you? Have any fan bases turned you away from a fighter? Present or past?

No. A fighter's fanbase has no bearing on if I like him or not. I like a lot of guys that like Wilder and ODH even though I personally do not like them. I am cool with a number of Manny fans even though we all know how I feel about him.

I can also separate a fighter from his fanbase and separate the fanbase into those that seem to actually be boxing fans that like him, or those that seem to like the fighter because he represents their political or social agenda.

So even if I don't like GGG or Kov, I can separate guys like King, Natas and j0zef from Jubei, Freedom, mlac, hype job, /// and bigdramshow.

[buckfuddy]

Mostly don't care about fans, but really despise people who never ever entered the ring, but use words like "coward", "no heart", "bum" etc.