Comments Thread For: Anthony Joshua Refuses To Get Involved in Sportswashing Debate

[ShoulderRoll]

Not everybody has to be the righteous, virtue signaller u crave in the sport, I wouldn't give a f either tbh, Arabia has been that way for thousands of years, and their not gonna just suddenly stop cos AJ told them it's bad, look at the big picture, and stop thinking every athlete has a duty to bring up political issues, there should never be any politics involved in sport, if Saudi wanna host events, as long as there not throwing any g*y athletes off buildings, I have no problem with it!

So if Saudi was throwing g*y athletes off buildings then you would care?

[chepboxingking]

It’s not an athlete’s job to change the world. His job is to be an athlete. It’s cool when they do get involved, but not getting involved is okay also. People expect too much from celebrities.

[LAchargers373]

Sport washing is somewhat a laughable claim. That would mean soccer in Italy Could be considered sport washing at one point. Any sport in Japan or germany could be considered sport washing. If we want to get technical america took in **** war criminals after WW2 and gave them new iden****** many of whom were founding members of NASA. This was known as operation paper clip. Is any sport in America considered sport washing? England is the founding member of the commonwealth of nations a group of countries they once claimed sovereignty over. Is any sport in Britain called sport washing? These are all valid questions. My point is that all regimes have committed human rights atrocities at times in their existence. Saudis are no different. They should not be held to different standard than the countries I mentioned tho

[REDEEMER]

There isn’t a fighter today that would turn this opportunity down.

It’s a sports event ffs

Pipe down already

That poster is probably the most ignorant poster on the forum ,sadly everything some type of race card with him or shifting focus on an individual who’s successful .

I have a friend who’s a sports manager in strength events and owns a huge media business and he moved to Saudi last year from the U.S and thinks that’s the best place he’s ever lived and might not come back to the U.S . What’s more funny we probably actually got less rights over here under a FREE country ?

[alexjust]

Anthony Joshua cares more about getting paid than he does about human rights.

Don't expect him to take a stand for justice like Muhammad Ali did. That made Ali a great man, but Joshua isn't cut from the same cloth.

Neither am I. Neither are you. You'd sell your grandma for organs if they offered you half of what AJ is getting paid for the rematch with Usyk. And looking at the state of the world we are in - I say %$# it. Nobody cares about anything anyway.

[ShoulderRoll]

Neither am I. Neither are you. You'd sell your grandma for organs if they offered you half of what AJ is getting paid for the rematch with Usyk. And looking at the state of the world we are in - I say %$# it. Nobody cares about anything anyway.

That's why the world is in the state it's in.

Because not enough people speak out or take a stand.

[_Rexy_]

Ali lost years of his prime due to his stance on the Vietnam war.

It cost him to stand by his principles but he did it anyway.

If human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia were brought to his attention then I have no reason to believe he would just accept them.

Im a huge Ali fan too, but let’s not act like he didn’t fight in Zaire or Manila during their dictatorship

[baroidi]

Yeah, it's lame for big sports to help the Saudi's whitewash their image, but it's hypocritical for the Western press to point fingers at these entertainers. They are small fry, when Western governments are so friendly to the Saudis and sell them billions of Weapons of mass destruction, while they they wave their fingers at their geopolitical enemies about "human rights".

[P to the J]

Will just say that while I agree with most re: needing to boycott Saudi Arabia, Russia, or wherever, that if all of these principles were applied consistently, then America and Britain should have attracted centuries of press outrage re: sportwashing and the whole world should be lining up to boycott our sporting events.

[hhh1200]

is sports washing a woke term?