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Trivial, maybe, but for me seeing a boxer that amuses - particularly against their own will - will always make me watch them more. Here's my personal top five, let me hear yours...
5. Nate Campbell. A genius of timing, Nate followed up the classic "offer your opponent a free shot then wake up to see the ref counting you out" routine with the comedy gold of "mishearing the announcement and celebrating winning a fight you've lost." Any other fighter would just have raised their hands. Campbell, never one to do things by halves, gets on his hands and knees and pounds the canvas while crying his eyes out. Cue the embarrassed ref who has to break the news to him...
4. Carl Froch. Still relatively unknown in the world comedy stakes, Froch has an arrogant persona totally lacking in self-depreciation. While talented, can usually be seen taking unnecessary shots off third-tier opposition then saying stuff like "Joe Calzaghe's having nightmares about me." Should he one day meet Calzaghe and get KTFO his comedy potential will become fully realised.
3. Zab Judah. Past his best, perhaps, with his fans knowing they're never going to get anything as good as the teapot dance and Nady doubleact. But his spaghetti legs in January gave us all a reminder that the master hasn't totally lost it.
2. Carlos Maussa. No further explanation necessary.
And finally...
1. Audley Harrison. Audley - or "Tawdry Embarrassin'" as I know him - continues his perpetual cycle through a pro career that's fast approaching seven years with no real progression: he boasts with no trace of humility how he's the champ in waiting, then fights another bum. The two back-to-back losses added to the comedy, especially seeing his eyes totally glazed from a glancing blow back in December. A middle-class Englishman with a business degree, his insistence on trying to convince everyone he's "street" makes him my top mirth maker of the sport right now.
5. Nate Campbell. A genius of timing, Nate followed up the classic "offer your opponent a free shot then wake up to see the ref counting you out" routine with the comedy gold of "mishearing the announcement and celebrating winning a fight you've lost." Any other fighter would just have raised their hands. Campbell, never one to do things by halves, gets on his hands and knees and pounds the canvas while crying his eyes out. Cue the embarrassed ref who has to break the news to him...
4. Carl Froch. Still relatively unknown in the world comedy stakes, Froch has an arrogant persona totally lacking in self-depreciation. While talented, can usually be seen taking unnecessary shots off third-tier opposition then saying stuff like "Joe Calzaghe's having nightmares about me." Should he one day meet Calzaghe and get KTFO his comedy potential will become fully realised.
3. Zab Judah. Past his best, perhaps, with his fans knowing they're never going to get anything as good as the teapot dance and Nady doubleact. But his spaghetti legs in January gave us all a reminder that the master hasn't totally lost it.
2. Carlos Maussa. No further explanation necessary.
And finally...
1. Audley Harrison. Audley - or "Tawdry Embarrassin'" as I know him - continues his perpetual cycle through a pro career that's fast approaching seven years with no real progression: he boasts with no trace of humility how he's the champ in waiting, then fights another bum. The two back-to-back losses added to the comedy, especially seeing his eyes totally glazed from a glancing blow back in December. A middle-class Englishman with a business degree, his insistence on trying to convince everyone he's "street" makes him my top mirth maker of the sport right now.
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