Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather Fallout: Video Won’t Kill This Media Star

[Laborer]

How can ali say something to offend all blacks when he is also black? This sentence is very interesting. If I am understanding you floyd is racist because he said something about a non black. So if Nonito Donaire said the same thing floyd did its not racist?

Don Miguel stop it. To answer your question, either the words are racist or they are not. It doesn't matter who says it. Again, inferring from your post you don't have a problem with what was said just who said it. Is this correct?

First off, stereotyping is a form of discrimination and racism. Period.

"To answer your question, either the words are racist or they are not. It doesn't matter who says it." Of course it does! Have you seen Woody Allen movies, or Sasha Baron Coen's. They're what you will call Self-Deprecation. I don't want to waste my time explaining them to you but here's my own cut-and-paste:

...whereas a ***ish joke told by a non-*** may be considered anti-semitic and offensive, the same joke told by a *** may be taken in good humor. The ability to laugh at oneself and the absurdities in one's own culture is often considered a good character trait... Self-depreciation can also be used to better oneself in social situations.

So there.

[davetheone]

Reverse Racism

The backlash against Floyd Mayweather Jr. are from people who are racist against African Americans and Hispanics.

Why is it ok and why is it acceptable to call pacqiou the Mexicutioner? Executioner of Mexican boxers. That is insulting to Mexicans and insulting to hispanics in general.

Floyd never directly said anything racist. The comments he made actually brought racial stereotypes out of actual racists. How else would anyone who isn't a racist themselves know that any reference to eating cats or dogs has to do with stereotyping Vietnamese people?

On another note; Manny Pacqiou should be ashamed of himself for granting an opportunity to a boxer that was caught cheating. I'm not paying to watch a cheater fight, in fact people may very well be paying to watch two cheaters fight eachother.

The word needs to get out about not supporting this fight for so many reasons. All boxers should boycott Top Rank for allowing a cheater back into the sport; no one should agree to fight Margarito. And all boxers should boycott Manny Paqiou unless he agrees to random urine and blood testing.

Would anyone be wrong for bootlegging this fight? Using illegal means of receiving the broadcast or downloading the fight from a ******* site a day after? How is it any different than paying your hard earned money to watch a boxer who had his hands wrapped with plaster? That's a rip off! Miguel Cotto's loss against Margarito should be reversed out of respect to Miguel Cotto and out of respect for the sport. Miguel Cotto should be granted a rematch with random blood and urine testing with paqiou. That sounds ridiculous; right? But it's not as ridiculous as granting a red handed cheater a license and opportunity for a big pay day and have the audacity to charge people to see it. I would love for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to turn the tables and promote a fight with Miguel Cotto and start the boycott of both Margarito (cheater caught red handed) and Paqiou (cheater until proven otherwise with random urine/blood testing).

I never thought I'd say this; but really, boxing sucks and November 13th is going to be the biggest black eye this sport will ever see.

[Laborer]

The backlash against Floyd Mayweather Jr. are from people who are racist against African Americans and Hispanics.

Why is it ok and why is it acceptable to call pacqiou the Mexicutioner? Executioner of Mexican boxers. That is insulting to Mexicans and insulting to hispanics in general.

Floyd never directly said anything racist. The comments he made actually brought racial stereotypes out of actual racists. How else would anyone who isn't a racist themselves know that any reference to eating cats or dogs has to do with stereotyping Vietnamese people?

On another note; Manny Pacqiou should be ashamed of himself for granting an opportunity to a boxer that was caught cheating. I'm not paying to watch a cheater fight, in fact people may very well be paying to watch two cheaters fight eachother.

The word needs to get out about not supporting this fight for so many reasons. All boxers should boycott Top Rank for allowing a cheater back into the sport; no one should agree to fight Margarito. And all boxers should boycott Manny Paqiou unless he agrees to random urine and blood testing.

Would anyone be wrong for bootlegging this fight? Using illegal means of receiving the broadcast or downloading the fight from a ******* site a day after? How is it any different than paying your hard earned money to watch a boxer who had his hands wrapped with plaster? That's a rip off! Miguel Cotto's loss against Margarito should be reversed out of respect to Miguel Cotto and out of respect for the sport. Miguel Cotto should be granted a rematch with random blood and urine testing with paqiou. That sounds ridiculous; right? But it's not as ridiculous as granting a red handed cheater a license and opportunity for a big pay day and have the audacity to charge people to see it. I would love for Floyd Mayweather Jr. to turn the tables and promote a fight with Miguel Cotto and start the boycott of both Margarito (cheater caught red handed) and Paqiou (cheater until proven otherwise with random urine/blood testing).

I never thought I'd say this; but really, boxing sucks and November 13th is going to be the biggest black eye this sport will ever see.

i agree with everything you said, well except the Mexecutioner bit. It's not Peduiao's fault that the media called him that, and beside if anything it should be Peduiao who should be insulted, but of course we knew he's OK with it.

[LeadUppercut]

first of all this is the fight game you sensitive ma****as.

Ali did bring race into it. He called Joe an Uncle Tom, and called him a gorilla in that racially charged time. He knew exactly what he was doing to promote the fight.

And people saying that if Tiger, or a basketball or baseball player said the same thing they would get crucified by the media. Well of course you idiots, but who watches ****in golf? Its a different crowd than the fight fan crowd. Fight fans get off of this ****, hate it or love it. Boxers get a pass for their behavior, when compared to other athletes from other sports.

Now it'd be different coming from Manny because his carefully cultivated image is one of humility, social awareness, and constraint. Going against that would go against what his fans have come to know him as. But Floyd is a notorious foil, and he thrives on controversy. He hasn't deviated from what made him big in the first place.

So cry about it... or go watch golf. ****

I don't think that I'm gonna get into this thread, racism is just so fkn ignorant that it barely qualifies for discussion.

Mayweathers comments were very borderline, at least.

I dont understand that black and white shi7, I am very lucky where I live.

But I agree with you that rightly or wrongly, the fight game plays by different rules.

[olbanarts]

Racist Philippino's EXPOSED!

youtube.com/watch?v=MHmpZXISdYk

[JSS]

Yes yes, its only been said a million times..

So the President is a clown...When since has he been a champion for African American Rights... He is the American President not the Black American President..


and this Video will make Floyd Bigger and Sell the fight more. Hate it or Love it.

Sell what fight? Did Fraud say he was fighting Manny? I thought Fraud is taking a vacation, so he's not going to fight anyone soon!!! So what fight is Fraud hyping up? Fraud will never fight Manny, Fraud will find another reason to duck the fight. *****'s kill with their moronic explaination on why their god Fraud Gayweather being racist. And "...oh he can't be racist b/c he's black...black people can't be racist." Bull****!!! anyone can be racist no matter what cultural background they come from. IDIOT!!!!