I'm very impressed with Puerto Rico!

[~Lucky13~]

PR is a country it aint ****ing Hawaii, u say that to Puerto Ricans near u and you'll have to duck, its "commonwealth" whatever the **** that is to the United States, Puerto Rico is not a state, we dont vote in those presidential elections, PR would never vote in an idiot as big as Bush...we got OUR flag, our own government our own Olympic team our own everything

I don't mean too sound offensive or anything but why does your flag look so similar to the American one?!
Same colors, both have stars and stripes etc...
Do you know the origin of it?!
I can look it up but I want to hear it from a Puerto Rican!

[Jambo boy]

Isn't Iraq a US state now??
In fact the whole world is, we should just rename the planet the united earth of George Bush.

[Sin City]

Boxing isn't as big in the Dominican Republic.. the power houses are usually places that put much emphasis on the sport.. Contrary to popular belief Mexico isn't big on boxing either.
It's only big in the capital city and some of the northern states.. this is why there isn't much champions from southern Mexico.

[DeymarPR]

so are u assuming the cuban flag has the same colors too right? idiot, the flag of Puerto Rico has different meanings, the light shaded blue triangle version means pro independence, and the blue/dark blue shaded triangle falg means pro commonwealth/statehood, then there's the revolutionary flag....look it up... even for the other poster yea thats cool that you look at it that way but PR is a country and maybe the Puerto Ricans you met are the ones from the states that never lived or know what actually happens or goes on in PR, for example the Vieques issue that happened years ago is one of them...the U.S lies to PR, they say no tax, but then again when you compare prices of things from here and over there, PR is far more expensive what does that say? They still do take tax and pple know what goes on, they think we're ******, and the issue with them trying to bomb Vieques to perform military tests while people were living there and young kids would "accidentally" get killed or bombed, If you don't know what goes on in my country or know anything about it, don't speak on it.

[tito yuca]

I don't mean too sound offensive or anything but why does your flag look so similar to the American one?!
Same colors, both have stars and stripes etc...
Do you know the origin of it?!
I can look it up but I want to hear it from a Puerto Rican!

Actually, our flag is nearly identical to the Cuban flag, but with the colors inversed. The star represents a sole country, independence. Our flag looks that way because it was designed as a tribute to Cuba for reaching their independence.

[Guest]

I'm very impressed wit my own race. I mean for being such a small percentage of the U.S. population most Great American boxers are black kid.

[PR Boxer]

Puerto Rico for being a small island has produced 55 World Champions and will most likely produce a 56th if Juanma Lopez wins the fight on June 7, I think it has to do with our character because Puertoricans have agressive characters, you don't want to mess with a puertorican, honestly we will beat you up. But I am proud of my country for producing so many World Champions in the greatest sports.

Although I would like for Puerto Rico to be considered it's own country (independent, while remaining with a ********ic ideology and allied with the US), Puerto Rico is not a country, it's a commonwealth, meaning that we have our own everything but we still respond to the US in terms of federal funds and military purpuses, so we aren't part of the US but we are not a country either, although that they will come, the day when the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is called the Republic of Puerto Rico will be the day we will be a country.

[shadeyfizzle]

I'm very impressed wit my own race. I mean for being such a small percentage of the U.S. population most Great American boxers are black kid.

You can thank white people for trying to breed "supernegroes" during slavery for your people dominating just about every athletic sport. You could go through the entire continent of africa and only find a handful of guys as big as the average black american

[shadeyfizzle]

Puerto Rico for being a small island has produced 55 World Champions and will most likely produce a 56th if Juanma Lopez wins the fight on June 7, I think it has to do with our character because Puertoricans have agressive characters, you don't want to mess with a puertorican, honestly we will beat you up. But I am proud of my country for producing so many World Champions in the greatest sports.

I thought it was just that Puerto Rico's economy is so bad and people are so poor that the only 3 ways to get off the island are either be a boxer, baseball player, or musician

[raabd]

Boxing isn't as big in the Dominican Republic.. the power houses are usually places that put much emphasis on the sport.. Contrary to popular belief Mexico isn't big on boxing either.
It's only big in the capital city and some of the northern states.. this is why there isn't much champions from southern Mexico.

That's 100% true. I'm the only one in my large family that actually watches boxing. My family in Mexico doesn't even follow boxing. A cuople of my friends are casual boxing fans but that's it. The Northwest states of sonora and sinaloa along with d.f. is where some of the action is. Mexico is a soccer country.