What Fighters Do You Look Up To, On A Personal Level?

[Southpaw Great]

Well????????????

[mhager91490]

George Chuvalo and Frankie Duarte are both inspirations in their own ways to me.

[CarlosG815]

Mike Tyson - very intelligent. You can see how truly smart he is when he talks about boxing. I have a lot of respect for the amount of knowledge he was able to retain.

Joe Frazier - If you watch documentaries on Joe Frazier you can see what a great man he was. He cared about the youth in his community, and to this day is involved with running his gym and helping kids in his community. He loved his family, was always well spoken and polite, and was truly a class act. When you see what Marvis Frazier said about his dad after his loss to Larry Holmes, you can feel what a great father he was.

Roy Jones Jr. - Another class act. Roy was always entertaining to watch, never ducked a question when it pertained to him avoiding other fighters, gave a lot back to the kids and was always very respectful of his opponents.

I could list a few more. Oscar DLH, never downplays or takes anything away from a fighter that beats him fair and square. Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Very ****y but has RJJ qualities he just gets a little too defensive and doesn't handle criticism as well.

Rocky marciano, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey.

[mickey malone]

Quite a few infact..

Max Schmeling - For the way he took care of Joe Louis (once in the ring too!)

Muhummad Ali - For sticking to his beliefs

Gerry Cooney - For setting up a trust fund for retired fighters

George Chuvalo - One of the greatest positive thinkers whoever lived

Graciano Rocchighiani - For suing the arse off Suliaman, after being heisted of his title

Jack Johnson - For openly taking the piss out of all those who hated him

Joe Bugner - For giving the UK the finger, and having a better career in Australia

Mike Tyson - For his all round boxing knowledge and the way he portrays it

Joe Frazier - For helping Ali when nobody else would

Terry Marsh - For being a world amateur chess champ, a marine, a firefighter, an undefeated world boxing champ, but most of all for shooting 'old fish face,' Frank Warren and being cute enough to get away with it lol

Gene Tunney - For being a perfectionist in everything he did.. A real class act!

Richie Woodhall - For complaining to the judges and holding up the hand of Glen Catley, after Catley had been robbed against him.. A more honest gent, you couldn't meet!

Vinny Pazienza - For the way he came back after breaking his neck

Craig Bodzienowski - (probably spelt wrong) - For even getting into a boxing ring, let alone fighting for a world title (vs Robert Daniels for 1 of the CW titles, lost on pts)
The guy had one leg!

Kostya Tszyu - For what he said after the Hatton fight, and for the way he treats his fans.. That guy would invite you into his home at the drop of a hat..

So many others for their sportsmanship and contributions to the sport, far too many to mention, so i'll pass the batton......

[r.burgundy]

never looked up to any but i admired vernon forrest.he set up a home for mentally challenged adults and would bring them to his fights.its takes a special man to do something like that in this day and age

i hear mayweather is very charitable also though i dont know what he's involved in specifically

[JAB5239]

Joe Louis
Barney Ross
George Chuvalo
Rocky Marciano
Muhammad Ali

All great men worthy of being looked up to for different reasons.

[GJC]

Archie Moore did a lot of work motivating disadvantaged kids.
Also was the Ali of his day in the way he promoted fights add that to the fact that he stuck at the fighting game when he wasn't getting the breaks and got better as he got older. Very interesting fellow Moore and should have been one of the great trainers with his knowledge.

[geribeetus]

pep for fighting after the plane crash
holyfield for being the most humble fighter i know of
joe louis for being loyal to a fault