Fighters you hated until they lost

UltimateGround
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Maybe not “hated”, but always wanted to lose.

Chuck Liddell for me. When he was on top i was always rooting against him. After Rampage beat him I became a fan.

Anderson Silva. Wanted him to lose SO badly when he was on top for so long. But what made me a fan wasn’t actually when he lost, but when he showed vulnerability and still found a way to win. Chael absolutely dominated him in a way that would have broken most fighters spirit. He showed himself to be a warriar and found a way to win. Even the desperate look on his face as he pulled off the sub, I still get chills thinking about that moment.

So just as i became fans of those guys, they basically stopped winning.

I guess i do tend to root for underdogs.

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Izzy

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I totally get why a lot of people would dislike Izzy, but i immediately liked him. I think because he reminded me of Anderson.

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Wasn’t a big fan of most fighters that fought in the WFA

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My screen shows i posted this on the UG.

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I absolutely loathed Jon Jones until he got destroyed by Matt Hamill.

Ever since then, he’s been my favorite fighter.

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Conor annoyed me until he dominated Alvarez. Then he went right back to annoying me with the lead up to the Mayweather fight.

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Paige until she took that ass whooping from Rose and kept going until she got choked unconscious. Warrior.

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I don’t know that I’ve ever hated a fighter until they lost. I don’t hate many fighters, but they usually stay on the shit list if they happen to get there.

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Usman is far more palatable after he was humbled.

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Bisping…and then he got the Hendo Bomb dropped on him and it humbled him a bit, and he chilled out

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Might be the opposite here. I just don’t gel with the effeminate, dancing types.

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Everyone says this but he was still spitting at corner men and being a generally unlikable dude years after that fight imo.

I think it was more around the time when Vitor kicked his eye out that he started growing on me.

I also don’t know if he would have been as hated as he was without the fans he had lol. I think those early losses changed their behavior more than Bisping himself.

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Usman and Izzy are great answers

They were both so annoying but then they got humbled and were easier to watch

I enjoy watching them fight now but Usmans knees are shot so I think he’s almost done fighting and people have figured Izzy out

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UKTT made him most hated on here.

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faber until he broke both his hands and threw everything else like a savage, i think against mike brown?, i also met him right around that time and he was so cool.

i think his positivity and success just bugged me.

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Hughes was easy to hate during his heyday but that era was awesome looking back.

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^this entirely

There’s a fairly big list of fighters that I refuse to watch.

Lesnar, Khabib, Khamzat, Anderson, Chack

In fact, I use Chris Weidman’s KO of Anderson to brighten my day now and again.

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I woke up with the shits and when i went back to bed i had a dream that a no name skinny white guy guillotined jones for his second, less destructive loss.

Am I gay?

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Chael.

The Nog bros feeding a bus a carrot is hilarious. “You mean they have the internet down there?”

“Whooooa, big fella”

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