Comments Thread For: Alexander's Trainer on The Pacquiao-Black Fighter Debate

[ghost deini]

can we please stop this debate it's totally pointless!

for one no one should ever pay any attention to anything Bernard Hopkins says to the media he's just trying to get people talking and create a **** storm

besides there aren't many slick black fighters around besides floyd and bhop so who does pacquiao fight berto lol c'mon man i think we all know what would happen there

[FloydTBE]

KC talks alot of ****, hes gunna eat it soon

[tanginamo]

GAYWEATHER Jr. is The BEST,,, The SLICKest,,, The TOP NOTCH African-American fighter... i want to change the Question... when will GAYWEATHER Jr. face a TOP NOTCH ASIAN..???

[leegeelee]

Bernard Hopkins is certainly as controversial as he is outspoken. His observation about Manny, however controversial, states a fact: Manny has never fought a top African American fighter. The statement infers that Manny would have trouble with the style of Black fighters and has therefore avoids them. I don't think Bernard meant anything more sinister than that. If Manny's choice of Shane Mosley as his next fight was an attempt to address Bernard's contention I think it fails to meet the challenge. Mosley, once a great fighter, can no longer rise to the level of even being competitive with Manny IMO. Pacquiao's decision to take on the aged strapless Mosley who is comming off two piss poor performances instead of the young champion Berto who is comming off two impressive kayos has nothing to do with skin color. It has to do with minimizing risk. Arum’s ‘explanations’ notwithstanding, the Pac camp clearly recognize that risk is multi-racial, defeat does not discriminate.