8️⃣ Chris Eubank Sr 6️⃣ Mike Tyson 3️⃣ Antonio Margarito Ranked: The fighters who revelled in their role as boxing's bad guys
The boxers who loved being the villain from Mike Tyson and his outbursts to Floyd Mayweather reminding you how rich he was and Chris Eubank billing himself as ‘Simply the Best’Everyone loves a bad guy – and from ‘Simply the Best’ to ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ boxing has always had fighters happy to embrace the villain role and revel in a crowd’s boos.
AB, whose nicknames run from ‘About Billions’ to ‘The Can Man’ is still active and, alarmingly, only 32 years old. But after two defeats in his last four fights, Broner has left his peak years in the crapper with so many dollar bills.Tricky to rank, because Foreman pulled off one of boxing’s best ‘face turns’ and was a bald, burly, beloved, grill-selling machine when he came back in middle-age. But for the first run of his career, ‘Big George’ was a feared and loathed heavyweight.
Yet for all that, Tyson – even at his worst – was as worshipped as he was reviled. For everyone who tuned in hoping to see Tyson lose, there was an equally large global audience praying to see him crush his poor, wide-eyed opponent. Let’s just put ‘Iron Mike’ in the middle and hope it doesn’t offend him.Unlike Eubank, there was no underlying softness to the arrogant act of ‘The Prince’.
The ‘loaded gloves’ incident before his fight with Shane Mosley – when Mosley’s trainer spotted a suspicious substance on Margarito’s hand wraps – ruined the Mexican-American’s reputation. Fight fans immediately became suspicious of previous victories, particularly Margarito’s shock win when he busted up and stopped Miguel Cotto.
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