Name one black fighter who has a following

[Motofan]

Fishing thread. Nobody could be ****** enough to believe it. One word...Tyson. Two words...Roy Jones...three words...Real Deal Holyfield. I can go on ALL day.

[βetamax]

I don't agree with that. Many professional athletes that endorse products are black. Has a white athlete ever had had shoe named after him? Why hasn't 1 white basketball player gotten on the list below when 5 blacks did?

Also 6 of the Top 10 most endorsed athletes are non-white, 5 are black.

According to CNN Money - Fortune, these are the top ten athletes in order of money made from endorsements in 2007:

1. Tiger Woods - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $100 million
2. Phil Mickelson - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $47 million
3. LeBron James - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $25 million
4. Dale Earnhardt Jr. - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $25 million
5. Michelle Wie - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $19.5 million
6. Kobe Bryant - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $16 million
7. Jeff Gordon (tie) - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $15 million
8. Shaquille O'Neal (tie) - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $15 million
9. Peyton Manning - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $13 million
10. Dwyane Wade - 2007 endorsement income (est.): $12 million

http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/5...in+Sports.aspx

My question to you is what white basketball player(s) deserves to have a shoe over these athletes?

I'm not saying that black athletes don't get endorsed because they obviously do. A great black basketball player will almost always get endorsements over an average white player. You have make the consideration with all things equal. So if hypothetically we have two athletes who are the exact same from personality to skill chances are the white athlete will be favored. There are of course exceptions to the rule but a majority of the time this is the case.

[Bobby Shaw]

Fishing thread. Nobody could be ****** enough to believe it. One word...Tyson. Two words...Roy Jones...three words...Real Deal Holyfield. I can go on ALL day.

Those guys had a following
We want to hear about a black fight who has a following.

[Sonny Palermo]

Tyson is quite popular with the Clark County Detention Center guys . . .

[JAB5239]

So then you should be able to easily explain why Shane Mosley was treated the same way floyd was when it came to endorsements? Shane was p4p number 1, Shane was once seen as nearly unbeatable. You wanna explain that?

Shane had the PERFECT additude and it didint matter. What kind of additude did Barry Bonds have? Before the steroids thing, he had all KINDS of endorsements from equipement with his name on it to shaving products. You are living in a fantasy world. lol @ you thinking companies look at additude when many pro players have a rap sheet much bigger than floyds non-convictions.

Shane, if you will pardon the expression, is vanilla. Bonds was aruably the greatest hitter ever in this country's most historical sport. He was a face we saw on tv and the front pages at least 6 months a year. And as sullen as he could be with the media, outside of baseball he led a pretty clean life.

Actually you should be laughing at yourself for thinking companies don't believe in apearences. Sure, there are plenty of guys with endorsements with worse records or sheets than Floyd. How any of them are considered the face of their particular sport or the best at it? In case you have forgotten my friend, boxings reputation isn't and historicly hasn't been anything to write hme about.

Blacks havent cared about boxing since the decline of Roy Jones jr and Tyson, its just a fact. They dont cover boxing like they used to, american fighters PERIOD do not have a huge following unless they start thowing another countries flag on their shorts.

It has nothing to do with color or race. As soon as another (sincere) and charasmatic fighter with skills comes along the public will be captivated. Granted, that seems t happen fewer and farther in between these days because of the sports decline in popularity (at least in the US),but it wil inevitably happen again. Sponsers just have to be more finicky about who they decide to represent amongst a much saller fanbase.

Corperate america is about MONEY and nothing else, so long as it can be marketed, theyll do it.

So long as it can be marketed and it doesn't come back to bite them in the ass, they'll do it. Not for nothing, but outside of boxing Floyd isn't all that marketable. He's part of a sport that hardly gets any coverage on Sportscenter, and he's got a lousy attitude. Why would any cmpany want to invest in a risk where the would be a greater chance of less return? Baseball, basketball, football.....they got plenty of guys to fall back on if someone screws up. Boxing doesn't. THAT is why the endorsments aren't there.

[JAB5239]

Can anyone blame some black fighters like Hopkins for playing bad boy

I don't blame any fighter for doing what he has to do to earn a buck. But at the same time I can't play deaf, dumb and blind when the MAJORITY of America is turned off by those antics. Im not saying its right, but it is how it is. No?

[dfwtx]

News to me - I was always behind Holyfield.

Never figured him as a catcher but I'm not one to judge.

[DaTrooth]

the people who support the black fighters usually watch the fight over their homies house on PPV.....we don't really like going to the arenas, first of all.....there's no smokin' allowed.....and we black men can't watch a fight without puffin' on some trees.......just like most white men can't watch a baseball or football game without havin' a beer, same ****!.....plus MOST blacks are into the NBA and NFL happenings........if we wanna talk boxing in the black community, we gotta go to the barbershop, but we can find a NFL or NBA conversation any where.......its all about Kobe, LeBron, T.O., and Larry Fitzgerald in the black sports talk.....believe it or not, not many blacks watch boxing!

WRONG! black people love fighting. I had 3 black guys at my place last night and they were going crazy! I know more than a handful of black guys that love boxing.

[mexican boss]

back in the day people would pay to see mike tyson **** in the ring...

[Vasyl’s dad]

We're not talking about Floyd either, the question was black fighters with a following, if Floyd can't sell out arenas like you say he can't why bring him into the thread

Stay on topic son

Uh, he is on topic. Mayweather is Black, and can be used as an example. The truth hurt your feelings so you retaliated with a ******ed comment about something irrelevant.