How RACIAL is Boxing? (2007)

[El Jesus]

You tend to like the guys you can relate to, especially in boxing. For example I relate to Ricky Hatton who has suffered from the same dispiriting and crushing gloom and disappointment as I have, being a lifelong supporter of Manchester City Football Club...

And that feeling will continue for at least the next 20 seasons. Sorry.

[squealpiggy]

Serena Williams is still one of the most popular athletes in tennis.

The two most popular athletes in the sport of Tennis by some margin are Maria Sharapova and Annan Kournikova. I can't understand why...

[squealpiggy]

And that feeling will continue for at least the next 20 seasons. Sorry.

So it's YOUR FAULT!

I read recently Sven Goran-Eriksson is interested in managing the blues... That would be pretty good.

[EliteSoldier]

shannon briggs aint white....

Shannon briggs sucks though

[Tha_Greatest]

yea american fans want a white american champ. the reason there arent that many white american boxers is well...for the most part white kids really arent training to be boxers cuz they feel its a black sport. its sad but its true. and in Europe, they dont give a **** about race and thats why u see a lot of euro champions and a lot of hot prospects from there. If ur good, ur good, race has nothing to do with it.

In L.A its extremely diverse in here, i knew so many black kids in high school, they dont really know squat about Floyd at all except he beat Oscar recently,i know many blacks, not one likes boxing, In fact they dont even know who pacquiao is, not joking, I knew many white kids ,none of them liked boxing at all as well, only Latin kids like boxing, i talked football and basketball with black and whites. The LA Times doesnt cover boxing at all. La Opinion newspaper does. Local English channels dont have boxing televised at all. Spanish channels do like boxing fights on Solo Boxeo on channel 34, when fights are in LA, you see a latino audience, this is why Mexico has so many champs, kids today idolize boxers so they want to become boxers while white kids talk about Tony Hawk, use skate boards and watch Jackass. Black kids idolize their basketball and football heroes. Thats why those sports are dominated by blacks

[realheavyhands]

many white americans are too soft to be boxers.. there a bigger pool in other countries

[El Jesus]

So it's YOUR FAULT!

I read recently Sven Goran-Eriksson is interested in managing the blues... That would be pretty good.

we see now, Sven wasnt so bad, when you look at Mclaren now, Sven is looking like a genius.

[Tha_Greatest]

Im A American but This is the truth,

Reasons we dont put Calzaghe or Hatton in our top 10 p4p are they arent Americans



Just like i posted 3 or 4 posters ago, black and white kids in America dont like boxing, America dont dominate Boxing and when they have a good fighter,theyovereact like with Floyd, calling him greatest of all time cause hes undefeated, or Shane Mosley ,Vernon Forrest calling them at one point
#1p4p because one big fight. Every time i hear some American journalist putting a Chris Byrd, Samuel Peter, James Toney, Calvin Brock ,Hasim Rahman, ranked ahead of W.Klischko until Klischko beat most them American fighters or they lost to some Euro. I never seen Vitali or Wladimir in anyones top 10 p4p slots but ive seen Americans James Toney , Chris Byrd, Calvin Brock, In fact ive never seen even undefeated Euros like Hatton or Calzaghe in top spots but in American posters on this site would put Zab Judah, Corey Spinks, Tim Austin, Derick Gainers on their list, I dont like soccer but i know America doesnt dominate, England has good teams year after year so Americans hate soccer. My U.S team in soccer is not very good as it should be so we bash it. Baseball is now dominated by latinos so we dont watch it with passion as if it were the American pastime anymore. Hockey is basically few Americans and mainly foreigners so we dont watch it at all. We watch Americans watch Basketball and Football because its dominated by Americans. Basketball is supposedly not watchable as it used to be. I always hear on T.V, basketball is on a downfall, the sport is getting worse,is it really, no, its not, basketball only has too many foreigners coming to the NBA. The new stars which are foreiners are all supposedly not marketable, thats not true, its just that we dont want to market foreign players. Football is filled with Ameicans so its now Americas pastime.

[The Troll]

Larry Holmes on the subject. Famous 'Rocky can't carry my jockstrap comments.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32495vIK7l4

[The Troll]

Pretty jagoff thing for Larry to say.