If you always root for your countrymen, how can you claim you're a fan of the sport?

[baya]

Baya, I think I told this story before.

I was in a house full of Boricuas when Oscar fought Tito. I had a total of $450 on the fight with like 4 different vatos.

At the end of the fight (this is the honest to God truth) before the decision was announced, they ALL pulled out their money to give it to me because they thought Oscar won that fight.

When they decision was announced, they told me I didn't have to pay because it was a BS decision. I paid anyway because that's the way I am, you pay your bets no questioned asked.

Then a few months later, they denied ever saying Oscar won and were praising Tito for such a great victory....hahaha

They were all my homeboys so it was all good.

yeah, thats a fight where there were no winners. tito looked like an amateur against oscar's combos as well as jab and oscar bowed out of his biggest fight of his career up until that point like a chavala in the championship rounds.

the boxing public lost that day because "the fight of the millenium" ****** balls.

.... my boy and i literally, in san jose, put the pr flag on the whip and rode down santa clara blvd and alum rock rocking that thing and the entire time thinkin' "damn, is this really an astute thing to do" lol

[baya]

dude, when the fight happened, i was in the bronx with my girlfriend and her family, everyone was puerto rican, i was the only dude going for oscar. before the final bell even rang i had a huge smile on my face and everyone was all serious. her uncles were reaaaal quiet and didn't want to face me lol. when the read the score crads i did a facepalm and the whole house erupted into a huge salsa fest lol. i couldnt believe it. i was so down that night. i got sooo wasted/joked on allll night. i must have been 18 or 19. long time ago. good times.

that shiz made me LOL

[Bushbaby]

Amen bro,I like boxers from everywhere.I couldn't care less where their from.If a fighter fights with courage,doesn't cherrypick & seems to care about the sport & its fans more than Money,U can bet Ur a$$ I'm a fan of him.

[BorderPatrol]

[QUOTE=Hyacinth;10305268]

I root for my countrymen every single time. I am a bigger fan of Puerto Rico than I am of boxing. No apologies.

cool. no one probably took your boxing critic serious anyways.

Not a problem... I am critic/observer of human behavior first and foremost. We already have 5000 boxing analyst here.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

dude, when the fight happened, i was in the bronx with my girlfriend and her family, everyone was puerto rican, i was the only dude going for oscar. before the final bell even rang i had a huge smile on my face and everyone was all serious. her uncles were reaaaal quiet and didn't want to face me lol. when the read the score crads i did a facepalm and the whole house erupted into a huge salsa fest lol. i couldnt believe it. i was so down that night. i got sooo wasted/joked on allll night. i must have been 18 or 19. long time ago. good times.

Yea, that's the way it goes sometimes. Funny thing is, to this day they won't admit Oscar won....we always joke about it and they make little comments to me...hehe

yeah, thats a fight where there were no winners. tito looked like an amateur against oscar's combos as well as jab and oscar bowed out of his biggest fight of his career up until that point like a chavala in the championship rounds.

the boxing public lost that day because "the fight of the millenium" ****** balls.

.... my boy and i literally, in san jose, put the pr flag on the whip and rode down santa clara blvd and alum rock rocking that thing and the entire time thinkin' "damn, is this really an astute thing to do" lol

Damn, isn't that the truth. Oscar *****ed out, was so disappointed.

Rockin that flag there was ok, but I wouldn't attempt that in Boyle Heights or Watts...hehehe

[jpunieves]

Call me modern, soul/pride-less, unpatriotic or even an infidel if you want. i think it's pretty lame to always root for your countrymen. makes no sense. if you're mexican, puerto rican, african american, filipino, white or whatever else, it's not like you had a choice in the matter. maybe because there isn't a venezuelan/ecuadorian champ our there is why i feel this way. highly doubt it though. i'm a fan of boxing, not of dudes who i share some similar physical characteristics with.

it makes no sense if you do not root for your country men...

call yourself whatever you like: guardian of boxers, sole boxing fan, boxing fanatiko or whatever... but why be butthurt with other people rooting for dudes who they share some physical characteristics with? why shout to the world you are an unbiased boxing fan and whine why people like their own?

why not root for your country men? you should put some lube down that hole so that it'll slip in better for you to accept.

[UglyPug]

Call me modern, soul/pride-less, unpatriotic or even an infidel if you want. i think it's pretty lame to always root for your countrymen. makes no sense. if you're mexican, puerto rican, african american, filipino, white or whatever else, it's not like you had a choice in the matter. maybe because there isn't a venezuelan/ecuadorian champ our there is why i feel this way. highly doubt it though. i'm a fan of boxing, not of dudes who i share some similar physical characteristics with.

Well you can still be a fan of the sport, despite always supporting your countryman, if you watch fights that do not involve your countrymen, and you cheer for/follow other fighters who aren't from your country. It's just that if that guy you like from another country, happens to be fighting the dude who you share heritage or whatever with, you no longer root for him. . .

The two aren't mutually exclusive. you can be both. a hardcore supporter of your countrymen, and a hardcore follower, and supporter of boxing as a whole.

[UglyPug]

but i agree - you shouldn't be "proud" of what a boxer accomplishes, and somehow act as if that accomplishment reflects ON YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL. lol all cause "insert fighter" is "insert ethnicity" and you are "insert ethnicity" DOES NOT mean you are anymore like that fighter then someone of "insert ethnicity". hahahaha if that makes sense. I feel ya for real, take pride in what U ACCOMPLISH AS AN INDIV

[Spray_resistant]

National pride makes me sick, I am better than you if you have national pride and will say you are not a real boxing fan if you ever in your life root for someone from your nation.

[fcastro1]

nothing wrong with supporting your fighters and being a boxing fan. i support pac and donaire but dont really care to much for fighters like viloria and nietes. you can be both.