Great boxers who were great human beings

[lightningleeroy]

Don't know about great but the Klitschkos always seemed pretty decent

[vaborikua2014]

More like a loophole. Even ****m Richardson said as much. The way the wrap was wrapped was legal in Nevada, California, Puerto Rico, Mexico basically everywhere.

" But the thing is this, Tito Trinidad deserves to be in the Hall of Fame because the way Tito got his hands wrapped was legal in other states. It wasn't legal in New York, but it was legal in other states,"

"See, the way Margarito was getting his hands wrapped, that **** was illegal in MMA and every other sport and in every state. I can see if William [Joppy] was making that argument about Margarito, but with Tito, he just tried to wrap his hands...it could be an honest mistake."

Richardson added, "The Tito thing I think was more of ignorance. It was the fact that they were used to wrapping his hands like that all the time and most of the places you fight, like Vegas and everything, it's cool to wrap like that. So when they came to New York, they didn't think nothing of it. They just wrapped his hands the way they always wrap his hands. Well, we working by and abiding by the rules of New York, so I argued the case. But it ain't like the Margarito thing where he was blatantly trying to pull one off. One was ignorance and one was illegal."

So, sure an argument can be made about the NY rules (which are a vast minority) and since he fought in places such as Vegas, Puerto Rico, Mexico, France, California, Florida, Italy before he'd been to NYC he'd wrapped his hands a legal way and I don't think you would really expect the rules on something as basic as a hand wrap to be that different in NY. So the "we always wrap that way" is plausible and also legal. Your acting like all the time he fought he cheated which is blatantly incorrect and probably biased.

Exactly. I was about to post that whole interview with ****m, but no need to couldnt have said it better myself.

[Lopez_Boxing]

Pacquiao is a pos....lol@includeding him

Hahaha I mean come on. On top of everything he's done he wants people to be excuted for drug possession. ****. Wants them die? I think you're automatically NOT a great person if you want people to DIE

[Lopez_Boxing]

Who boasted about giving Ali parkinson's later on in life

Yeah Frasiers voicemail wasn't that if a great person. It was pretty unsympathetic and ****ed up

[LetOutTheCage]

Muhammad Ali should be number one. The most important and influential, in a positive manner, boxing personality of them all.

The amount of times he donated money to charities and lets not forget those hostages he saved

[Citizen Koba]

most human beings are full of ****, I consider myself a pretty decent n balanced person.. but im full of it as well at times. anyone can put on an act. all of them seem like pretty decent people I try not to get caught in my emotions about someones personality or outside the ring life. everyone has their own story.

I like this. Anyone who claims to be a good human being should probably be treated with intense scepticism.

[SCEN3RY]

Shawn Porter just seems like a good dude. I don't think I know enough about fighter's personal lives to honestly say tho. Some of these guys seem nice but how the **** would I know? Pacquiao, I believe is good, but he's also wronged people close to him like his wife, I mean. You'd be hard pressed to find a truly always honest/good doing athlete, let alone person. Some fighters are just more scum than others.

How do you even go about judging the goodness of another? That's a seriously infinite conversation with no right answer. Let's stick with Pacquiao for instance: rumored or admitted (?) adultery, but then people close to him, even those that no longer work with him (Ariza) have genuinely kind things to say about him as a person. Obviously the best people to believe are those close to the athlete and not tabloids, but still you'd be silly to make a saint of an athlete.

[soul_survivor]

The amount of times he donated money to charities and lets not forget those hostages he saved

On top of all that, his struggle and sacrifice against the status quo in the 60s, his bravery as a ******, his ability to admit when he was wrong about a cause etc etc

[PsychoPat]

George groves seems a humble bloke. Found his humility after the gutnekcht incident admirable plus he rarely has a bad word to say about an opponent. Analyses there's strengths & weaknesses in a fair but respectful manner

[Eff Pandas]

Sh^t I sometimes find it hard to know how good someone is that I actually interact with for some period of time, let alone famous boxers who only show me things about themselves when they know the camera is on or when they are showing up on the police blotter.

I think you are being a bit naive to suggest anyone is legit a good person & hell I think the guys who've done things most of us would deem them as bad people because of haven't shown us the context of the bad thing they allegedly did so who knows if those people are legit bad people or just got caught up in something that looks bad & their part in it wasn't as advertised.