Comments Thread For: Bernard Hopkins: Black Fighters, We Are Built Differently

[SplitSecond]

he's right, but i wish he'd steer away from all this racial crap, i can't even call anyone racist in this thread(even with the monkey comments etc), no one is going to accept being called inferior and they should'nt

[Uturn]

Hopkins is an uncle tom really.

[Yaconcha]

bernard hopkins is a 20th century great but, and i do mean BUT,
i have never heard anything like it.
****.......WHAT A ****.
there are many comparison that can be made that contradict what the **** is saying and everybody knows it.
what a ****.
p.s. does that mean "white boys" (like our jc) are better than african "americans"? or is it that us brits are just better anyway than any americans? statistically we are anyway.
certainly in terms of volumes being equal we are and have been more sucessful at everything.

[amayseng]

According to Hopkings, "There's no secret that we are built differently. There's no secret that we have things that other cultures don't have..."

I think Hopkins showed us how honest he was to himself and to the people...May be, he's always looking at the mirror every second every minute trying to answer questions why he looks different to other races, why he has that black skin, why he has that curly hair, why he looks like a monkey, why he thinks differently from others...Of course some holds true and some are not...When it comes to looks yes it's true, when it comes to sports it depends of how they're inclined to such interests and discipline...So I want to ask Hopkins how blacks fair in tennis, in swimming, in football, in gymnastics, in skiing, in ice skating, in volleyball, in baseball, in mix martial arts, in cycling, in judo, in sumo wrestling, in wrestling, etc...
Particularly in boxing where Hopkins generally raised that argument, how many black boxers in the top ten pound for pound list only 2 Floyd and Bradley...Why today in heavyweights the Klitchko's were at the top for a long time...
Why in Heavyweight only 2 black boxers in the top 10
Cruiserweight only 4 blacks in the top 10
Lightheavyweight where Hopkins belongs 5 blacks
SuperMiddleweight only 4 blacks
Middleweight only 1 black [Williams]
Jr. Middleweight only 2 blacks
Welterweight - 5 blacks
Jr. Welter - 4 blacks
Lightweight - only 2 blacks
Jr. Lightweight - only 1 black
Featherweight - no black boxer
Of course lower weights dominated by other races other than blacks...

If Hopkins really thinks right, why black boxers can't dominate the top 10 boxers in every weight division...It only shows how ignorant Hopkins was...

this is an excellent point.

as is the one i made with the best basketball team is duke, lots of white guys

best pitchers in baseball history are white

best hitters in baseball are white

best qb;s in football are white

best shooters in nba history are white


am i racist no, but i do understand some PEOPLE are built differently

bernard is built differently

brett favre is buit differently

nolan ryan is built differently

floyd has defensive reflexes and timing above most

its not a race thing its an individual person thing

even calzaghe had fast as **** hands at 37 years old

different genetic gifts for different races..

[xAUGUSTUSx]

Well Bernard those good old genetics you talk about come from slavery. During Slavery in America they bread the biggest and strongest ****** with each other so they would have bigger better ******. I know it sounds harsh but it's plain and simple fact. You don't see Africa winning in the Olympics. You don't see 9 foot tall Africans. But in the US almost every black man is athletic and big.

[bestboxingonly]

Blacks dominate most of the best sports, everything happens for a reason though.

[Mr. Philadel]

[Pu$$yKiller]

To some extent what he mentions is true. African Americans and other blacks that can trace their lineage to West Africa have naturally lower body fat percentages and subtle differences in skeletal structure. This is why Jamaicans (apart from sprinting being ingrained in the culture) and other black sprinters can run sub 10 and a white male is yet to do it.

On the other hand you won't see a black man do what Michael Phelps did at the Olympics either.

Depends on the sport......certain physical traits may make some black boxers faster (more quick twitch muscle fibre) but at the end of the day boxing is equal opportunity and it's skills and other aspects (styles) that win you fights. The ***s and Italians no longer send the hundreds of contenders to the ring they once did, so circumstance plays a part too.

Very good reply.

[Pu$$yKiller]

How many chinese dudes are in the NBA or NFL?

Er 1?

I dunno, but when did I say they were in there dumbnuts

[chav]

imagine if a white swimmer (Michael Phelps for instance) came out and said "us whites are superior at swimming then the muscle bound blacks, who pretty much sink and struggle in the water, we are gentically superior"

oh my lord, there would be an uproar.

who remembers Eric the eel at the olympics? lol