Religion and boxing. Is it cool or not so much?

[Jayseen]

Deal with it there's nothing you can do...if you don't like it don't watch it. Maybe you can try to poke your eyes out that might work

[Mikhnienko]

thats why northern euros suck at sports - theyre just not blessed.....on top of that your not athletic....

They do very well at strength based sports and are some of the strongest people on the planet.

Watching a post fight interview turn into an infomercial for a ***ish's zombies magical powers always sucks.

I want to see someone who wins a fight vs a jesus freak thank satan for their win, just for fun to see the other guys reaction.

[Frighteous]

I want to see someone who wins a fight vs a jesus freak thank satan for their win, just for fun to see the other guys reaction.

never gonna happen on the world level

probably already happened on the low level

due to public relations guys advising their fighters of what to do

[Bennett]

keep it out. chris byrd would have been so much cooler if he wasnt so hyped on jesus and god. he might have had more of a killer instinct if he dropped that crap.

[bestboxingonly]

Id be surprised to know if some boxing champ/great would bow down and worship his money after winning a fight instead

[Pullcounter]

In this past weekend whilst being utterly bored by Ward vs. Green I came to think, that I’m really no fan of Andre Wards name “Son of God”

Maybe not so much the name itself, but more the fact that I hate the display of religion, that his name conveys.

I dislike his bowing down and praying in the corner and his use of the sign of the cross on his chest as well. I’m disliking what I hear, when he praises the Lord or whatever…

This thread is not about Ward and what he does or does not. It’s not about me disliking display of religion, because I’m no different than most other northern Europeans. We’re not really too keen about it and probably we not too keen about religion all together.

But what do you think? Is it cool to change your name, because you decide to become a ******? Is it cool to pray in ones corner before a fight? What about boxers having to state all the time the gratitude they have towards God and what he has given them.

Why even box if you leave it all in the hands of God.

Let’s discuss it and maybe even get some names of boxers who were strongly religious.

nothing wrong with what ward does. a real atheist ignores that stuff, not be offended by it.

[Pullcounter]

Id be surprised to know if some boxing champ/great would bow down and worship his money after winning a fight instead

floyd mayweather jr does that

[knn]

I love it when boxers come with some "Jesus T-Shirt" or similar voodoo.

It always reminds me of the correlation between education and religion: The more educated people are the less religious they are. Thus these boxers effectively tell us "Look at me I am uneducated" or "I have a disrupted background" (prison etc) or similar.

Higher education correlates to lower levels of belief, the survey showed. 52% of college graduates are religious compared with 54% of people with a high school education and 70% of those who completed only primary school.

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/46.htm

and

Among the sample of 137 countries, only 23 (17%) had more than 20% of atheists, which constituted “virtually all the higher IQ countries.” The authors reported a correlation of 0.60 between atheism rates and level of intelligence, which is “highly statistically significant.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence

Now in Muhammad Ali's case it's even more severe: Not only that ALi _IS_ uneducated (he was bottom %1 at the High School) but also he gave up his name "Cassius Marcellus Clay" (who was a slave liberator) and then changed it to "Cassius X" (hahaha, wtf, a boxer who wants to be a ****star?) and then to "Muhammad Ali".

That name "Muhammad Ali" is basically a constant and neverending self-ownage.
Not only because the original Muhammad Ali was a slave capturer and owner. But also because Elijah Muhammad (Nation of Islam leader) gave it to Clay. Thus in Ali's case we are constantly reminded of Clay's radical roots in that racist UFO religion. It's as if someone would change his name from "George Washington" to "Adolf Hitler" because Rael said so. Ali won't get rid of that name anymore, I am afraid.

[AllEyesOpen]

Fighters can praise whichever god they wish, Why any merciful god would help a man brutally pound another mans face in til he submits is beyond me though.

[KingTito]

What? What's wrong with these fighters being religious? This is a bad thread.