"European Fighting Style"

[Top Cat]

Isn't this just a nicer way saying "White fighting style"?

Why do people say this and nothing is ever mentioned about it afterwards? This is thinly veiled racism.

It's usually said in a way to make a particular fighter out to be inferior, from the same people that will call any white fighter a '"robot" or any hispanic fighter a "punching bag".

I've heard it plenty of times over recent months, most notably from Ward and Dirrell, the new faces of black power.

Is it ok to racially abuse white people? It seems so.


Sincerely,
TC

[Team Money May]

Because it's just describing a style.

It's like using the word slick - doesn't mean they are black, its just the term.

[paulsinghnl]

so nicolino locche fought a black style i'm guessing, tyson got taught a black style by a white man, same style that jack dempsey used. they just mean the straightforward boxing in line, instead of sideways movement etc., i think..

they're not being racist, at all..

[Spray_resistant]

Because it's just describing a style.

It's like using the word slick - doesn't mean they are black, its just the term.

Who are we kidding here

[Dan...]

Who are we kidding here

Sergio is slick.

[Spray_resistant]

Sergio is slick.

He sure is, guess we learned something about Sergio today didn't we?

[jonesy]

Who are we kidding here

Who are you kidding? The average african-american is 20% european.

[F l i c k e r]

"Lucian Bute is the slickest southpaw I've ever seen" - Harold Lederman.

Wow, that's a huge claim. Seeing how Pernell Whitaker is a southpaw.

Did he really say that?

[Spray_resistant]

Who are you kidding? The average african-american is 20% european.

Apparently I am kidding you, as long as 1 of us is in on the joke I can live with that.

[Hannibal Barca]

Yes. Mike Tyson had a white grandfather from Ireland, his father was mulatto. His mother may have had some white ancestors too. Ali had a white great-grandfather, and had some white ancestors on his other side too. Roy Jones and George Foreman appear to be mixed ancestry too.

Every single African American living in the states has traces of European ancestry. Most simply don't embrace it.