Brit boxers have TRUE GRIT...IMO

[!!! Beowulf !!!]

There certainly are many great African-American/English fighters ... just didn't feel the hyphen was necessary, just like I didn't think hyphenating Italian-American was necessary for Marciano or Basilio... ;^>

Roy Jones Jr isn't African. Rocky Marciano isn't Italian. They're American. You also wrote African next to Asian, and there aren't too many "Asian-American" fighters of note, so I think you weren't exactly being anywhere near clear.


You Yanks are ****ing obsessed with ancestry, it's almost laughable.

[Ted The Bull]

Roy Jones Jr isn't African. Rocky Marciano isn't Italian. They're American. You also wrote African next to Asian, and there aren't too many "Asian-American" fighters of note, so I think you weren't exactly being anywhere near clear.


You Yanks are ****ing obsessed with ancestry, it's almost laughable.

Naw, not really. At least I don't think we are. Give me some examples so I can understand where you are coming from. If you mean we make a big deal about whether we are Italian Amreicans vs. just being Americans, I have to agree with you.

[Exige Jr]

Show me where I insulted you...

I'm waiting...........

[Tysonisgod]

i was puttin oliver in it because he had beat lewis, i didnt mean for it to come out like i was sayin he was from the uk, thats y i said he had grit for still fight, sorry for the mess up

[Tysonisgod]

Irish does not = British, well british is that not the full of the UK, scotland england walse and the irish

[Ted The Bull]

I'm waiting...........

I all ready pointed it out from a prior post. "Now I just wish that people would stop judging people by factors that mean **** all."

Really? Exactly what is that supposed to mean. I think the implication is that I took a myopic view. Now I don't have thin skin, but Boxing is not a safe haven for the polically correct. That's one of the reasons I like so much. My comments were staright forward and my subsequent posts were clear. Each country in the world is unique and I believe that the style of fighters of each country reflect some of that uniqueness. Mexican fighters are known for their machismo. You can accept that or not, but each main evenyt in Mecxico starts with these word from the announcer. Es Macho? Quien es macho al noche?

I already have made some comments about fighters from the different countries in Africa.

But too the point. I have always like the Brit fighter's toughness in the ring. Billy Shewer was and is a friend and he demonstatred this to a fault. But that's my personal opinion. If you feel it implys some negative issues associated with "the celebration of diversity" you own that...not me. It is what it is and it's an opinion.

[Ted The Bull]

Excuse my typos

[Holly McCall]

Brit boxers have TRUE GRIT...IMO, too. Macklin and Moore...my God.

[Tysonisgod]

lets jst say that ALL BOXERS hav true grit, cos they box?

[Ted The Bull]

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