Black people use the phrase "White Boy" all the time, without being racist. They're simply describing someone. LOL.
It's pretty much always racist and these days has the same level of import as the holy n-word.
but what's in a word anyway?
Which people is the persecuted one? japanese? Tibetan? Palestinian? jews? Irish? Scottish? Polish? Basque? Gypsies? Native Americans??
No one is special for having a "history"? No one is owed anything, and thus no one deserves a special sensitivity.
people betting on sultan are getting 700 on their 100 if they bet at the right spot.
those betting on taylor are now getting 170 on their 100.
id say taylors chances are more like 25%, which makes pavlik a deal at -170.
taylor didnt do anything better than pavlik in the first fight, he simply landed a big shot when pavlik got cocky. not gonna happen this time, pavlik is gonna break him down round by round. im expecting a one sided fight along the lines of hopkins/tarver, only pavlik will finish him off.
No, he corrected his error when in the 6th Taylor tried to flurry again. Pavlik nailed him back to the corner, then for the next round and a half Taylor was a deer in headlights
Falliga did not make a good faith effort, he willingly went down every time he was touched.
Mickey you can't blame Lee for being happy, he's back in his home country, home town and he sort of knocked his guy out. It's not his fault
lol lol waiting for kayjay and some other sensitive members of this group who got their panties wet.
I just want to see their reply to this thread, I've just witnessed an ownage.
"If it was the other way around..."
"Hyprocrites"
"If it was a white man saying it to a black man"
Lol. Well here it is.
The people who argued that were all banned. Funny, huh?
So was a racist comment made by Minter then since you want to call Hopkins a racist?
Come on man, when are you going to realize that they didnt mean that shit. Good promotion for a fight thats all.
It's not good promotion, for one.
And Hopkins clearly said it out of anger. He shouldn't have retracted if it were just "promotion."
Your best post ever. It's a hopelessly ambiguous term that gets construed in any way a judge/fan wishes to construe it.
One thing I'll say about your post, though, is that you shouldn't take into account what you think a fighter's territory or style is "supposed" to be. When the opening bell rings, both guys have a blank slate. You can't say "Chavez wants to fight on the inside, so if they fight inside he got his way." That might make for an interesting commentary, but it doesn't belong to the judging of a fight
When it comes Chavez-Taylor is was controversial. But The Knockdown was was real and so was the KO. Besides they had a rematch and Taylor got KOed again.
Isnt it funny the most "controversial robberys" always happen to Whitaker? IMHO he lost agaisnt Chavez and DLH. No doubt about it to me. The question is his style and I guess will always be debated.
That's because these kids in the Floyd era look at fights differently, and judge past fights on their ice-skating standards. They forget the goal is to beat the other guy up.
Remember how badly Oscar was beating Whitaker? A few months back someone posted a gif of Whitaker slipping a few punches, of course without throwing any back, and said look at Whitaker "owning" Oscar. You can't "own" someone in a fight without punching them
Not too many and I see that as a problem. It's like that in other sports too, basketball for example. Some people might call basketball a black sport but the ownership, management, etc. is overwhelmingly white. Even average white players get more jobs after their playing days such as commentary, coaching, etc and it's like that to a degree with boxing as well.
I hope you understand that different skills are needed. The NBA for instance has struggled mightily to get the black ex-players who can speak properly into a booth, but time after time the guys fail.
While you need ex-players in the sport, you also need people who are intelligent and articulate. Here as elsewhere black ex-players have been given more than their fair share of opportunitiy. It's just that most of them are not fit for the jobs.
Edit: take Lennox Lewis for example. This guy is incapable of uttering a precise thought, yet he has a job on TV.
HOW CAN WINKY FIGHT KESSLER??
THE GUY IS 2 DIVISIONS ABOVE HIM FFS!
HE HAS NO CHANCE!
I'm not sure Winky can fight at 154 anymore.
And the Hopkins fans like to claim Winky as a big win, in a fight that was at a weight two pounds above the SMW limit
I find it hard to believe there aren't qualified ex-black players out there. I don't think as much effort is put to get ex-black NBA players as white players. Let's not forget there have been some unqualified ex-NBA players who were white and had no business behind a mic based on their playing career and commentary ability (i.e.Tom Tolbert) when C-level black NBA players are basically never given a chance at all after they're career.
But you see Tom Tolbert was actually good at being a TV commentator. The fact that he was a second- or third-tier player makes no difference. There aren't many black athletes who can speak as coherently as he can. We get people like Magic Johnson on TV. Magic is a lovely human being, but the man's IQ is about in the retarded zone, and his tongue gets in the way of his trying to talk. So Tolbert is more deserving of TV jobs than Magic, even though Magic is an atg whereas Tolbert was an average/sub-average player
no hate.. but he is overhyped in my opinion... I dont even think he is that good..
I really see him getin badly exposed by an average fighter.. I think someone like fulgencio zuniga would ruin him
If you're luck we'll forget this post.
He's in a crowded division is all. It'll clear out in two years and he'll have his shot. But the guys at the top are not even fighting each other this year, so no one is going to give him the fight
I never support athletes who thank God for wins. They can all go to hell, metaphorocally speaking, the uncivilized, unreflective cavemen who think that if there were a god it would care about the outcome of a sporting event.