Originally posted by SkillspayBills
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legend Roy Jones speaks on how america treats black boxers and the Ward vs GGG beef
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There are so many ways humans have chosen to stratify our species (skin color, height, weight, sex, sexuality, religion, income, physical attractiveness, education, etc...)
Racism is moronic, but lest we forget...this nonsense happens all over the world. A white guy is going to have just as hard of a time lost in Compton, as a black guy in a backwoods Mississippi trailer park.
Point being, money follows profit. You think corporations give a **** about an athlete'so skin color?
Hockey is salivating at the thought of a black Gretzky
Roy is stuck viewing the world through a narrow-minded vantage point
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Originally posted by LarryXXX View PostIf that was true then why did they not go to Mayweather?
And no, it's not his woman-beating convictions.
It's the fact that Floyd can't be controlled. He says what he wants. Corporations don't like that kind of volatility. And unlike a live wire like Barkley, Floyd is inarticulate.
Posting sonogram pictures of a baby that was aborted to get back at a former lover. That's pretty toxic
Use your brain, Larry
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Originally posted by Sweet Jones View PostSay who? That sort of assumption and who gets to make that determination of 'marketability' is EXACTLY what RJJ was speaking on.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2466314461.jpg
https://www.google.com/search?q=sere...1sCAZe#imgrc=_
Okay... and even if you really don't agree with the above (I would find that hard to believe, but okay) then let us consider:
There is 41,700,000 million African Americans in the US
Non-hispanic whites totals to 197,000,000 million.
Let's assume that the majority of AA find Serena more attractive, and the majority of non-hispanic whites in America find Maria more attractive (lets not forget Maria was born in Russia and has lived in the US since 1994). Statistically speaking, Maria would be more attractive to sponsors since she reaches out to a wider demographic proportion of the population.
And no, it's not racist to have a certain race preference. While I like all girls, I find latina girls the sexiest on average. Doesn't make me racist, or corporations racist either.
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Originally posted by SniXSniPe View Posthttp://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/u...ova-bikini.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/...2466314461.jpg
https://www.google.com/search?q=sere...1sCAZe#imgrc=_
Okay... and even if you really don't agree with the above (I would find that hard to believe, but okay) then let us consider:
There is 41,700,000 million African Americans in the US
Non-hispanic whites totals to 197,000,000 million.
Let's assume that the majority of AA find Serena more attractive, and the majority of non-hispanic whites in America find Maria more attractive (lets not forget Maria was born in Russia and has lived in the US since 1994). Statistically speaking, Maria would be more attractive to sponsors since she reaches out to a wider demographic proportion of the population.
And no, it's not racist to have a certain race preference. While I like all girls, I find latina girls the sexiest on average. Doesn't make me racist, or corporations racist either.
And IMO, those Sharapova pics are just 'meh'. YMMV.
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Roy jones made some really good points. The only thing I would say is that the black fighters he's mentioned haven't been knocking out fighters in the manner that Pacquiao and ggg have... Those guys are very exciting to the causal fan and perhaps more marketable to those outside of boxing... There's an opp with wilder let's see what happens there
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