the exception doesn't make the rule...Philippines have no relevance to the rest of the world in terms of economic, political or military power, so of course Pinoy are very excited about having a world class boxer. But nobody was really following him from there until about 2-3 years ago. Do boxing fans from Philippines exist before then? Of course, but like I said the exception doesn't make the rule.
look up the traffic on google trends, the Philippines didn't give a **** about Pacquiao prior to about 08/09.
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judging interest by google trends...thats a joke and has no relevance. Attacking Filipinos for not being boxing fans is also a joke.
Bottom line, there will be great interest in something, if that something is WINNING.
Look at the Celtics. Lakers. Singling out a specific group of people using biased opinions is lame.
The Filipinos weren't even watching boxing back when he fought Morales, a quick look at google analytics shows that Philippines only started watching boxing around the ODLH-Pacquiao fight. Yes they spam forums like they have been a nation behind Pacquiao since the beginning, but the actual numbers tell a completely different story. The Pinoy invasion of forums was nowhere to be find prior to two years ago. I would probably call them the most annoying, uneducated, and naive fans (the way they believe anything Arum says)...but I wouldn't really call them the "worst" fans because they do show great passion for boxing.
Lets see.. Ummm... I'm Filipino and must've taken over somebody's account because my join date on this site was way before DLH-Pacquiao... you are an ignorant fool
The Filipinos weren't even watching boxing back when he fought Morales, a quick look at google analytics shows that Philippines only started watching boxing around the ODLH-Pacquiao fight. Yes they spam forums like they have been a nation behind Pacquiao since the beginning, but the actual numbers tell a completely different story. The Pinoy invasion of forums was nowhere to be find prior to two years ago. I would probably call them the most annoying, uneducated, and naive fans (the way they believe anything Arum says)...but I wouldn't really call them the "worst" fans because they do show great passion for boxing.
not true at all. you're clearly ignorant and have never been outside your country. i have philipino friends and they all tell me that they have their own friday night fights long before your grandfather was born. big fights are also seen live via satellite. saying that it all started when pac beat hoya is clearly just to **** on people who are no different from any. it speaks more of the people who focus on this instead of boxing and the players in and out of the ring, who are clearly fairgames. you can **** on pac all you want, same way i do on other boxers, but focusing on race and these fighters' people is clearly just a diversion from your inability to take it.
New Guinea
those fans suck, they rarely support their fighters, and when they do it's all "New Guinea b*tches we dominate...don't hate! why u mad?"
can't stand them!!
I've met some dumbass pactards, and I've met some really smart Filipino fans. The same goes with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.
Every nation has it's stupid ass fans, and at the sametime it has really smart ones aswell.
American fight fans seem to be somewhat easy going. They seem to get behind fighters regardless of where they come from.
Tito, Manny Pac and Miguel Cotto have received a lot of love and praise from American fight fans.
I can't say the same for most other countries.
I never hear Philipino fans rooting for American fighters. Mexicans as I stated earlier are the most biased and racist of all fight fans imo. Followed behind Mexicans are the Klitshko fans.
I kinda just laugh at most of the biased Klitshko fans. It's obvious they are NEW TO THE PARTY as far as heavyweight dominance is concerned.
there are:
bad pinoy fans
bad american fans
bad mexican fans
bad puerto rican fans
bad british fans
but the ts is a race baiting troll who should be banned for starting a hate thread against a particular country/race regardless of where the hell he's from.
pac beats cotto and couple of mexicans, philipinos become the worst fans.
morales beats pac and philipinos becomes friends of morales and mexicans.
yep. philipinos are worst.
i'm not philipino. but you should be banned immediately.
Hundred and one ways Rican fighter can lose and their fans will have a hundred and two excuses. Their dude can never just lose a fight. It's always ****ing something.