One Thing I Noticed About White Champions

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Dont you think Joe Louis from Detroit, Michigan was maybe the most beloved champ of all time? They named the hockey stadium in Detroit after him built in 1968 and it's the oldest building in the NHL (thanks gary)

your just being wierd

Joe Louis didn't act like an idiot like some of these guys today though did he?

Joe Louis did not get to be a name by acting like a punk like many fighters do today of all races. He was pure class all the way.

And honestly, the two most highly regarded fighters are black and Filipino. Don't see how this argument is valid at all.

[LoadedWraps]

how long have u been watchin boxing?

About a week, i'd wager.

[Rostov Papa]

They seem to get more of a stage when they become champ, Im not racist one bit, but I noticed when a white boxer becomes a champ its like America embraces them more and talks about them more and not that they shouldnt, but all should be embraced and talked about as much the same.

There's just as many White champions as black champions today - maybe even more...

Just saying...

Times, they are a changing...

[Citizen Koba]

Joe Louis did not get to be a name by acting like a punk like many fighters do today of all races. He was pure class all the way.

And honestly, the two most highly regarded fighters are black and Filipino. Don't see how this argument is valid at all.

Was there's anything in particular that prompted you to dig up this fossilised thread? It's a fraction younger than my 7 year old son, which probably isn't a record but I doubt is all that far off either.

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I pin it down to handsomeness

[Daddy T]

They seem to get more of a stage when they become champ, Im not racist one bit, but I noticed when a white boxer becomes a champ its like America embraces them more and talks about them more and not that they shouldnt, but all should be embraced and talked about as much the same.

bull**** ... look at the heavyweight champion of the world

[jas]

They seem to get more of a stage when they become champ, Im not racist one bit, but I noticed when a white boxer becomes a champ its like America embraces them more and talks about them more and not that they shouldnt, but all should be embraced and talked about as much the same.

Of course this is the case

Because it gives white people someone to root for

[KillaMane26]

LMAO @ this thread

[soul_survivor]

They seem to get more of a stage when they become champ, Im not racist one bit, but I noticed when a white boxer becomes a champ its like America embraces them more and talks about them more and not that they shouldnt, but all should be embraced and talked about as much the same.

ermmmm...Mayweather is the biggest star in American boxing for a decade, before that it was Tyson, before that Leonard and Hearns....before that Ali, before that Robinson.

What white fighter has transcended those names?

[ИATAS]

ermmmm...Mayweather is the biggest star in American boxing for a decade, before that it was Tyson, before that Leonard and Hearns....before that Ali, before that Robinson.

What white fighter has transcended those names?

This thread is from February 2008 which was one day prior to the Pavlik Taylor rematch. So I'm guessing the TS was overreacting to the huge amount of excitement Pavlik created at the time and making it about his skin color. Truth was Pavlik simply had an awesome freakin fight against Taylor, knocking him out in such brutal fashion and Taylor was never really a people's champ anyway, everyone it seemed wanted Taylor's reign to end. That fight was amazing, certainly one of the best fights in recent years.