First off this kid has a beard, we all saw the clean shots he took from con the artist haha and Danny has a warriors heart. I can't help but be a little scared for him its just never good to take those kind of shots and he takes big shots in just about all his fights. Good for the fans bad for him. I really like this kid he's like rocky "the movie" I Now Garcia has something Margarito didn't have and that's very good timing with those bombs. DANNY SWIFT is dangerous!
cause you know what the **** you're talking about.
danny's throws his punches wider then a margs did. marg's mo was walking you down throwing the jab to get inside. danny wings his crosses and hooks from the outside.
*blushes* I'm glad he has since improved.
By your own standards half the people on the island don't qualify! haha!
Que tu dices? Aqui en PR todos pueden contestar esas simples preguntas. Aqui todos pueden entender lo que Huracan y yo estamos diciendo. Vivir aqui no me hace mas boricua que tu. Y me alegro que tengas orgullo de tus raices. Sin embargo yo me educo en las cosas de mi tierra. Mi cultura no se limita a Hector Lavao, a una parada o a Preciosa. Yo honro a Betances, Ruis Belvis, Albizu, Muñoz, Ferre, Barbosa, Hostos, Bracetti, Lola, Power tanto como honro a Clemente y al Gran Combo. No voy a tener una parte de PR sin tener la otra. Yo estoy en mi tierra luchando por la patria, sudandola y haciendo lo que tengo que hacer. Y no es un nivel de boricua mas alto que el tuyo, pero yo si represento al jibaro puertorriqueño. Ustedes alla, que hacen?
ELHURACAN58,
Entiendo tu punto de vista pero pichea' el tema. Obvio q ser boricua es mucho mas q levantar la bandera pero no creo q aqui es el sitio adecuado para eso. Y ademas, la culpa se les debe hechar a los padres en no educar bien a sus hijos sobre la cultura e historia cuando deciden irse de la isla.
Vamos con Orgullo para los juegos olimpicos!!
Jokes aside, pa' todos mi manitos Boricua in this thread
If you want to bring clarity to the question of Self-Identity among the Puerto Rican community, at home and abroad (or our family en los Grandes Antilles as a whole, porque en realidad, por sangre, historia y voluntad..todos somos unos)....start by taking the time and educating your brothers instead of demeaning them and berating them for being ignorant to certain things. You weren't born with this information, so it does not belong to you.
Start by identifying what it really means to be a Boricua...give them political education, arm them with the information they need for self-determination, create solidarity for the fight for INDEPENDENCE of Borinken, advocate for environmentally sustainable practices like our ancestors did (so called "Tainos", which isn't even a real Borinken term ANY f**kin way)...Educate them about the proud and rich history of the island, teach the truth...about its history of colonialism, U.S. Imperialist occupation, about slavery, about the exploitation and POLITICAL manipulation of the RELIGION many of YOU still claim...About Campos & Filiberto....
it's deeper than a dish, a dance, or an accent. And it's CERTAINLY deeper than arguing about a Puerto Rican boxer born in Philadelphia on a boxing forum.
So Borikua...PONTE PA'LO TUYO......
y pa'lante con la independencia de Borinken.
While it's important to know the culture and history of your ancestors, it doesn't define who you are as a person and you definitely don't have to like it or support everybody who comes from the same country as you. Nationalism is just a form of tribalism, about as primitive and irrational as religion.
I do think you should know how to speak spanish and I try to teach my kids. But even the little little kids that don't speak it you can still see the spanish in them.
Yeah see, thats all Im saying. You should also teach them the anthem and at least what happened in November 19, 1493.
Dont confuse me with one of those anti-nuyoricans that say "Well if you where born in the US and not on the island you are not puerto rican."
Im one of those people that says Tony Croatto was more puerto rican than most in the island, and he was an italian-argentine who had no puerto rican blood. He came here, fell in love with our culture and stayed here until his death. In that time he learned things about Puerto Rico half of the island didnt even know about, and I consider him puerto rican.
Again, Im not telling you to become the next "Boricuazo" and know every single aspect of the island, but guys like you and Danny should at least learn basic things every puerto rican knows about IF you want to rep us.
I do think you should know how to speak spanish and I try to teach my kids. But even the little little kids that don't speak it you can still see the spanish in them.
I'm simply saying if you do have french in you no body can tell you that you shouldn't be proud or have pride in that.
But then it would be very humiliating for me to go to France without knowing the language, their history, their cusine, etc.
How would I be french? Just because I have their blood, a french surname, and some kind of "pride"?
I wouldnt, would I? And Im sure the way french would feel about me is the same way many puerto ricans feel about stateside puerto ricans.
Look at one of our members in the national basketball team: Daniel Santiago, dude was born in Texas, and before joining the NT he spoke no spanish. Look at him now, he speaks spanish with an american accent, but he learned because he wanted, and that is all we can ask from him. He doesnt have to go and tatoo PR on his body like Balkman did, and some others. He actually took time to learn something we puerto ricans do, and that my friend, is a true puerto rican.
Then you are basically telling me being puerto rican to you (and for the quarter) is like me being french.
Just because I have the blood and support the french national soccer team (only because ours isnt at the world level yet), I should consider myself french.
If thats the case most of America's Hispanics are spaniards and most of America's northamericans must be british, if they want to represent them, cause its in their blood.
Thank you for the clarification.:omfg:I'm simply saying if you do have french in you no body can tell you that you shouldn't be proud or have pride in that.
You miss under stand me my point is if you test everyone in PR same 5 questions at least a quarter would fail. I respect your educated doesn't mean everybody else is.
Then you are basically telling me being puerto rican to you (and for the quarter) is like me being french.
Just because I have the blood and support the french national soccer team (only because ours isnt at the world level yet), I should consider myself french.
If thats the case most of America's Hispanics are spaniards and most of America's northamericans must be british, if they want to represent them, cause its in their blood.
Thank you for the clarification.:omfg:
On another note: Can you answer these questions 7 year olds know? Can you even google them to at least so I can know Im teaching a "stateside puerto rican" a bit of our island? Do you even speak spanish?
Man you keep misunderstanding me. Ok I will leave you a few questions every puerto rican should know. Lets see how much you know about Puerto Rico.
1)In what month day and year was PR discovered?
2)Who is the current governor and to what is his political party?
3)What is the name of the puerto rican anthem?
4)Who is our current abanderado in the 2012 Olympics?
5)What islands do we have to our North, South, East, and West?
Five painfully easy questions for you to answer and I give you 30 minutes.
You miss under stand me my point is if you test everyone in PR same 5 questions at least a quarter would fail. I respect your educated doesn't mean everybody else is.
Jokes aside, pa' todos mi manitos Boricua in this thread
If you want to bring clarity to the question of Self-Identity among the Puerto Rican community, at home and abroad (or our family en los Grandes Antilles as a whole, porque en realidad, por sangre, historia y voluntad..todos somos unos)....start by taking the time and educating your brothers instead of demeaning them and berating them for being ignorant to certain things. You weren't born with this information, so it does not belong to you.
Start by identifying what it really means to be a Boricua...give them political education, arm them with the information they need for self-determination, create solidarity for the fight for INDEPENDENCE of Borinken, advocate for environmentally sustainable practices like our ancestors did (so called "Tainos", which isn't even a real Borinken term ANY f**kin way)...Educate them about the proud and rich history of the island, teach the truth...about its history of colonialism, U.S. Imperialist occupation, about slavery, about the exploitation and POLITICAL manipulation of the RELIGION many of YOU still claim...About Campos & Filiberto....
it's deeper than a dish, a dance, or an accent. And it's CERTAINLY deeper than arguing about a Puerto Rican boxer born in Philadelphia on a boxing forum.
So Borikua...PONTE PA'LO TUYO......
y pa'lante con la independencia de Borinken.
Thanks but talking to these statehood wanters, coupon having fVckers is like talking to a wall, because they only go where there is less chance of having to work.
My mother is PNP and my father PPD, I had to educate myself to learn what I am and Im sure these brainwashed dumbasses are big enough to educate themselves too if the at least try to.
Im pretty sure they're parents told them "Uh yeah mijito I went to US because there is work here and in Puerto Rico there isnt".
And then we have to praise a West Side Story movie where Rita Moreno spends her time insulting the island.
Wow bro I new you were a hater when I read your first post. You try to sound smart but what you said actually shows how ignorant you really are you think we don't know those songs and do parandas and drink coquito how the fvck do we fit in with these americanos doing parandas... please bro we have way to many puerto ricans over here reppin the island for you to be saying that sh1t. If it wasn't for us there wouldn't be any Spanish day parade a matter of fact your welcome we (us puerto ricans) own the most popular city in the world go there and you'll see the affects of the spanish culture. So STOP HATING!
Man you keep misunderstanding me. Ok I will leave you a few questions every puerto rican should know. Lets see how much you know about Puerto Rico.
1)In what month day and year was PR discovered?
2)Who is the current governor and to what is his political party?
3)What is the name of the puerto rican anthem?
4)Who is our current abanderado in the 2012 Olympics?
5)What islands do we have to our North, South, East, and West?
Five painfully easy questions for you to answer and I give you 30 minutes.
There actually should be a standard, cause the same problem we have with nationalities now is the same problem we have with religion.
Now everybody is catholic without everybody being. "Oh yeah Im a catholic, but I like banging every girl I see without listening to the commandments. I also shoot anybody who gets within a 100 yards of my property, and masturbate 2 times a day at least, but yeah Im a catholic, Padre nuestro que estas en el cielo santificado sea tu nombre..."
"Oh yeah Im a puerto rican, but I dont know in what year the island was discovered, I dont know the anthem and who wrote it and I know ish about the country's politics, so dont ask me who the current governor is, but yeah Im a puerto rican.. Oh say can you seee...!!!."
By your own standards half the people on the island don't qualify! haha!
Man you dont have to eat guineos if you dont like them (though I wonder if you really mean guineos and are not confusing them with platanos), and like I said, being puerto rican isnt just about what you eat, its a combination of knowledge and customs.
Do you know who is Luis Muñoz Marín? Luis A. Ferré? Gilberto Concepción? Do you know whats going on in the island right now?
There is no such thing as a true puerto rican by blood cause we come from various races and indigenous blood is but a small sample in most of our genes.
What separates a true american, a true puerto rican, a true dominican, is knowing and showing what you are. Do not forget your culture, your customs that make you different from other nationalities.
Telling me Danny is just as PR as me if not more is offensive and shows what you know. Ive actually gone to other countries and have taught people of what we are when they asked, I never went to them to tell them: "Yo, do you know about Puerto Rico?". I dont even bring a flag with me or a shirt that says Puerto Rico.
I do enough with learning songs like "En mi Viejo San Juan", "Amanecer Borincano", "Lamento Borincano", etc, besides knowing about things a puerto rican should know about.
Its funny cause I went to Argentina and had a geography teacher put Puerto Rico next to Cuba. I of course corrected her
If Danny is asked, he probably says: "Yeah its an island somewhere in the Caribbean next to Cuba and Dominican Republic... somewhere between Jamaica."
Hell I would give all my points to the guy who could see how much Danny actually knows about the island.
Wow bro I new you were a hater when I read your first post. You try to sound smart but what you said actually shows how ignorant you really are you think we don't know those songs and do parandas and drink coquito how the fvck do we fit in with these americanos doing parandas... please bro we have way to many puerto ricans over here reppin the island for you to be saying that sh1t. If it wasn't for us there wouldn't be any Spanish day parade a matter of fact your welcome we (us puerto ricans) own the most popular city in the world go there and you'll see the affects of the spanish culture. So STOP HATING!
Yeah but if there is a standard, than that is not you and its not me. because no one really knows what that standard is. So who are you to set the standard? The way i see it, if you are not proud of it, you won't represent it. There are plenty of people who are ashamed of their race, who deny their race and at least this guy is proud of his roots.
There actually should be a standard, cause the same problem we have with nationalities now is the same problem we have with religion.
Now everybody is catholic without everybody being. "Oh yeah Im a catholic, but I like banging every girl I see without listening to the commandments. I also shoot anybody who gets within a 100 yards of my property, and masturbate 2 times a day at least, but yeah Im a catholic, Padre nuestro que estas en el cielo santificado sea tu nombre..."
"Oh yeah Im a puerto rican, but I dont know in what year the island was discovered, I dont know the anthem and who wrote it and I know ish about the country's politics, so dont ask me who the current governor is, but yeah Im a puerto rican.. Oh say can you seee...!!!."
I have five nephews living in the state, 3 of them were born there. One of them have a tattoo of a PR flag. They all have been in PR plenty of time. But like them and many others they dont know our history. Eating arroz con gandules, pasteles and parrandeando doesn't make you Rican. And I'm not saying that all Ricans raised there dont know our culture. My two older brother and sisters live there their whole life but they know PR, they know our culture, they speak Spanish better than some kids in the island and they are proud of it everywhere without carrying a flag or going to the parades.
Si Danny se siente boricua, Good for him. But fans, specially us rican fans who are effin sensitive due to our effing chauvinism, shouldnt been crowning him as a rican when Danny himself claims Philadelphia before PR. That pride is nothing like LaPorte or Benitez.
Yeah but if there is a standard, than that is not you and its not me. because no one really knows what that standard is. So who are you to set the standard? The way i see it, if you are not proud of it, you won't represent it. There are plenty of people who are ashamed of their race, who deny their race and at least this guy is proud of his roots.
Khan can bang??
Back to the subject of the post..... exactly who has Khan stopped and hurt at 140???
Salita??
I'm sure Danny does have a good chin but Amir is not a good gauge