Black America Sorely Needs Real Icon Like Pacquiao

[IMDAZED]

That's the 1st thing I thought homey.

I mean, seriously...

[Caxcan]

that's the problem with the black community- they lack sports stars some of these writers only bring up pac's name because it'll mean 100x more hits as their article is passed around every pinoy site

[JmH Reborn]

The author was talking about boxing folks, not politics, NFL, NBA and other sports/medium. I guess if time was taken to read the article you would have seen his points he made. I don't think he was putting anyone down.

He's merely suggesting/correctly stating that there are currently no black fighters that inspire fans on a surreal level like previous greats have done.

Its undeniable that there is no one right now that has that aura that Ali or Suger Ray had about them. Where they made even the most common man talk about him, regardless of race. Someone who transcends the game

@Bea5t

Lebron, Kobe and Dwayne are hardly 'icons'. They are just the best in the game right now. They don't transcend the game of basketball. Right now I don't think they have any 'icons'. Nobody in the NBA is an inspirational force for fans. NBA is in need of a savior of sorts in the worst of ways, moreso than Boxing honestly. Of course that is my opinion.

[baracuda]

lol You ****in flips are ******ed...

They got other athletes aside from boxers, and you got one guy that beats on stiff bodies. lol You need to save this dumb **** for your own lil websites.

maybe but that 1 pinoy beat all of your mayan warriors.......lol

[Deja_Vous]

Black America sorely needs real icon like Pacquiao


June 25, 7:12 AM





See many black faces in the crowd? I sure don't

You want Pinoy boxing fans?
We got them although I’m worried about losing most of them when Manny Pacquiao retires. We’ll have to hope the fan retention rate is higher than I think it will be or that another big Filipino star will have emerged to magnetize the Pinoys.
No, there will not be another Pacman in this generation but two or three Nonito Donaires would not hurt the situation.
You want Latino fight fans?
We got them, especially when it comes to Mexico and Puerto Rico and their ring heritage is rich and deep. I don’t think MMA can steal them away from boxing.
How about older white Americans such as your author? They’re still around albeit a literally dying breed. Call it the Just For Men hair coloring crowd.
But someone has got to ask this somewhat rude question and it mine as well be me.
Where did the black American fight fans go?
Where are the urban idols we used to have such as Thomas Hearns from Detroit and Sugar Ray Leonard from the Baltimore-D.C. area? They were real national icons who resonated with fans of all races and nationalities but especially with black Americans.
Black fans used to pour into Las Vegas and elsewhere when Ray and Tommy fought big fights. They put their money where their mouths were for these two and others.
Sure, Floyd Mayweather has a deep base of African American fans. It doesn’t hurt that he pals around with popular rap star Fifty Cent.
But what about other US born black boxers?
Sugar Shane Mosley is popular but not wildly so and he seems to be liked by fans of all races and creeds. It makes sense since he isn’t playing the affable guy role as he’s just being himself.
But, outside of Mayweather, where is a single black American boxer who stirs the pot nationally in terms of ticket sales or PPV TV buys?

I was at the Mayweather-De La Hoya bout at the MGM and the arena was not exactly overflowing with African Americans supporting Money May.
Don’t mention Cory Spinks because he’s a jab and move stylist who can sell thousands of tickets in hometown St. Louis but means zero anywhere else. He can turn The Lou into a boxing zoo but draws a blank outside of the old hometown.
The black American superstars of boxing are geriatric.
Bernard Hopkins was never a live gate lure and he’s just looking for a cashout bout against some noncompetitive opponent.
Roy Jones is talking about going to Australia to fight Danny Green. Outside of Pensacola and maybe Biloxi, where is His Royness a hot item?
It would be fascinating to know how many American blacks bought a ticket to see Hatton-Pacquiao or paid the PPV freight.
Or maybe I can just name them individually, it might be quicker.
I come from the closed circuit TV era when the big fights were shown at theaters and arenas on Monday nights.
Superstars like Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier galvanized African American boxing fans and they and some others drew support from their own community.
I just don’t see that happening circa 2009, do you?
We always talk about boxing losing younger potential fans to MMA and that is a rising tide that worries me. But what can be done about it?
Nate Campbell and Timothy Bradley fight on Showtime Aug. 1. This is a better than average matchup and a rarity because it pits two black American fighters against each other.
Other than the run of the mill ESPN bouts, how often do you see that?
But their bout is in the Palm Springs area, where Bradley comes from, at a local casino.
There’s no black urban population base to sell tickets to in Palm Springs and the fight is not so compelling that African Americans will come in droves (droves who drive?) from the LA area.
You ask me who the most popular or most interesting black American boxing figure outside of Mayweather is and I may shock you with my answer.
He’s about to turn age 80 and his name is Don King.
King made his fistic fortune promoting in the beginning promoting Ali, Frazier and George Foreman. Then he crashed the Latin market with such superstars as Wilfredo Gomez and Roberto Duran.
Pinoys may wonder if there will be another Manny Pacquiao.
Black America either needs Mayweather to start electrifying that boxing market or for their own Manny Pacquiao to come along.
Some say we’ve got no great black American heavyweights but I’m asking if we have any great black American fighters at any weight.
In the meantime, in between time, you could do worse than lending some support to quality fighters named Soupy Campbell and Timothy Bradley.
You know, I just realize my self-written headline is deceptive, God forbid.
It's so much black America that needs its own massively popular fighter along the lines of Manny Pacquiao.
It's boxing in this country that needs it.
American boxing needs it like oxygen.



http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m6d25-Black-America-sorely-needs-real-icon-like-Pacquiao

It would take pinoys a million years to produce as many great fighters in as many weight classes as Black America.

Manny is ALL YA'LL HAVE.


How many gold medals have pinoys won????

Were is the pinoy Kobe???

Were is the pinoy Ryan Howard??

Were is the pinoy Terrell Owens??


NFL...NBA...MLB...

Where ya'll at???


Hip hop..Be Bop...Jazz...Soul.....Rock n roll.....Gospel...

Where ya'll at??


Ali...SRR...SRL...Archie Moore...Bob Foster...Marvin Hagler...Tommy Hearns...

Where ya'll at????



Surely 150 million pinoys can at least keep up with 30 million Black Americans.

[2501]

first off, the dude says he's white. not pinoy. second, he's talking about BOXING. not politics, not culture, not religion, but BOXING. READ people.

[Deja_Vous]

The author is talking about BOXING. not other sports.

The author still can't say ****.

Look at the boxing hall of fame..

[Roxas]

let me ask you this people.....If Pacquaio was black....whud he be as big and loved as he is now?

[Sin City]

I never knew Barrack boxed..

[Spray_resistant]

let me ask you this people.....If Pacquaio was black....whud he be as big and loved as he is now?

A star by who's standard? He is to his own ppl, I am presuming you mean in America.....No matter what color he was if he had done the same things in his career and was American he would be an even bigger star.