Boxers you talked sh.t about but changed your mind with one fight?

[BoxingIsGreat]

Two fighters I don't like right now are: Loma and Golovkin. I hope I see the dog in them someday, if they have it. Same with Davis and Lopez. All they do is enough to win or, in Loma's case, lose.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Dog in=dig the deepest possible.

As human beings, we are basically programmed to have affinity for someone like that. The "bums" mostly do more of that than the "top" guys.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Best possible opponent will bring the dog out of you. Lopez-Davis would be a true to definition dogfight, ending in a KO.

[Boxing-1013]

Honestly Garcia has shown me something with some of his recent KOs. He is better than I thought.

[Boxing-1013]

Also, over the years I became a big fan of Yuur Kunt, the Uzbeki boxer. Honestly I love Kunt so much right now, it's crazy.

[Idunnoshet]

I remember calling Tyson Fury boring and feather fisted.
Had to eat crow and give him his respect after the Wilder beat down.

[Ochoa780]

Victor ortiz in the berto fight... and then he changed my mind back shortly after lmao

Was never a big Thurman fan but I felt like he really fought his ass off in that pac fight. Also used to hate carl froch early in the super six days but he grew on me too. Hes a real throwback

[BoxingIsGreat]

Also, over the years I became a big fan of Yuur Kunt, the Uzbeki boxer. Honestly I love Kunt so much right now, it's crazy.

Good. I like that kinda raw humanity, saying what you mean, emotionally.

I've been a fan of Davis since the get, and many people tried to shame me into not liking him, and not having his avatar, but their talk didn't even register. As long as I'm a boxing fan, I'll support him.

[Ochoa780]

What boxers that you have watched from when you started watching boxing til now, you talked a lot of sh.t about but then they changed your mind with one fight and you respected them after that fight?

Three come to mind off the top of my head:

Sergio Martinez: I talked a ton of crap about this man and thought he was being way overhyped and pushed too much. He then knocked out Paul Williams in 2 rounds and I became a fan and stopped talk crap about him.

Manny Pacquiao: Manny Pacquiao did it twice actually, not just once. First he did it with Ricky Hatton at 140 when Hatton was the Lineal champ there. Then he did it recently as an old man vs Keith Thurman, a younger, undefeated top 10 WW. Although my crap talking had calmed down considerably going into the Thurman fight, that fight still left me thinking about how good Pacquiao really is as a fighter. Thurman's bad shoulder and time-off or not, Pacquiao is old and past prime. No excuse.

Teofimo Lopez: A trash talker with very little experience at the top level. Looked mediocre against Nakatani and became emo after the fight, tweeting about quitting boxing or something. Looked mentally weak. He then KO's Commey, big deal; who has Commey beaten? Calls out Lomachenko..a 2-time Olympic Gold medalist with a 396-1 amateur record and a 14-1 record which even the worst opponents were at least good gatekeepers/journeymen. In a fight where I predicted Lomachenko will win 12-0, or frustrate Lopez and his corner so badly that they will quit in the corner or throw in the towel. Instead Lopez won a fairly easy 8 rounds to 4 and now has Lomachenko scrambling for excuses and pointing fingers at everyone but himself.

Cant believe you dogged Martinez man lol he earned every single penny literally jumped up to fight pavlik cause he just wanted a belt. Dude is an all time favorite of mine, I'm glad he changed your mind tho

[Ochoa780]

That's a really good one.

Bradley after the Ruslan fight I think is an obvious example. I didn't really talk **** about him, just thought he lost to Manny.

Yea it's really hard not to like bradley as a fighter. Dude was relentless

And that ruslan fight just solidified it.