Comments Thread For: Peterson: Black Fighters Get Little Support From Black Fans

[brick wall]

Tells everything needed to know about your comments on this subject.

i'm talking about black boxing fans not black people in general. what better way to get an idea of what black boxing fans feel? go to black communities or boxing websites/forums?

[ThePrince]

LLS Roy Jones never portrayed the role of what dumbass people think is a thug or gangsta and was loved. Mike Tyson was loved cause he was knocking people the **** out in just seconds. Tyson got more attention from media when he starting acting a fool cause that **** sold papers and showed people another black man acting a fool. Its not about crossing over. Its about getting a fanbase the correct way and these fighters now a days are not doing that. That is why they have little to know following. Boxers today are not visable. Basketball and Football players go to kids schools and sponsor summer camps for they sports. I have never seen or heard of a boxer going to a school to speak to students or sponsoring a summer camp so kids can learn the basics of boxing. Why do so many people want something for nothing? **** don't work like that!!!!!!

Some good points here but look at Sugar Ray Leonard. He was the most popular fighter in the 80s besides maybe Tyson and it wasn't because he acted a fool or made negative headlines. He was a crossover star because of his skills and his marketability. I think it'll take a concerted effort by promoters to push African American fighters like they once did, but they have made unveiled efforts to focus on Hispanic fighters and capitalizing on their fanatic fan bases.

Arum said this about Tim Bradley recently:

After Arum confirms that he plans on doing business properly by not fishing for Bradley while he's swimming in another promotional pond, he reconfirms his desire to sign the undefeated American.

"But if you asked me if we would want Tim Bradley to become a Top Rank fighter, the answer, certainly is yes."

Arum also made a slight knock on the job Gary Shaw has been doing with Bradley.

"Tim Bradley is an excellent fighter, and he's a very articulate, clean-living young man. We would do a full publicity blitz on Tim Bradley to make him known to the public. We would not do what's been done with him."

Fact of the matter is, there's a lot of overpaid, incompetent 'promoters' who have talented and marketable Black fighters but they have no clue how to push them on the public. The ones that have the ability, they'd rather focus on the Hispanic market. But Arum sees something in Bradley and wants to make him a known commodity and with Top Rank's infrastructure and connections, it's very possible.

[brick wall]

Dude do you really not understand how ****ing ignorant it is of you to make a generalization about black people based on internet boxing forums? Seriously?!?!?!

stfu already...this topic is about black boxing fans not black people. i'm not generalizing black people idiot.

[Guerrero360]

I Think it should be, American fighters dont get enough support from americans. Cause likes its been said before me, The rest follow nationality not race.

[brick wall]

Dude do you really not understand how ****ing ignorant it is of you to make a generalization about black people based on internet boxing forums? Seriously?!?!?!

He just went on my ignore list.

shove that ignore list up your ass fruitcake.

[tredh]

i'm talking about black boxing fans not black people in general. what better way to get an idea of what black boxing fans feel? go to black communities or boxing websites/forums?

Actually going to black communites cause on a internet forum a person can be whoever the hell they want to be. How can you not see that? A skinhead can pretend to be black on the internet and tell you anything and then you gonna repeat it and tell us you spoke to some black people on the internet. Come on man the **** you on is ******!!!

[withoutthee666]

Blacks, like most Americans, are not fans of boxing. They are football/basketball/baseball fans like every other American. Boxing is not a top sport in America. I don't think some of the foreigners on this site understand that boxing gets no press at all. It is never on the news, never in the newspapers, nobody follows boxing in America. If it wasn't for avenues like the internet and Boxing Scene, we would literally have no boxing talk in America at all.

[Guerrero360]

Also, There are a lot more black Star athelets in other sports for blacks to follow then in boxing. I dont see Mexicans, Phillipinos or to an extent Ricans in the NFL, NHL OR NBA.

[tredh]

stfu already...this topic is about black boxing fans not black people. i'm not generalizing black people idiot.

Damn never knew black people and black boxing fans are different. So black football fans are not black people!! Learn something new everyday!!! So mexican boxing fans are not mexican, Puerto Rican boxing fans are not Puerto Rican. Got you!!!!

[mananimal]

because black isn't a nationality.

It's your own fault really.

Black people should've listened to Malcolm X and not MLK. You know how you're feeling gutted for not taking that career high pay day for fighting Amir. That's how old black people feel for not siding with Malcolm X.

first off, i will always side with Abraham's son, whom the Lord God Promised, Issac, over his servant Hagar the Egyptian's son, Ishmael, whom all the Arab nations have come from. In the end you will see , who the God whom you serve really is..Anti-Christ..end time stuff, etc.... #2, All of this support of other fighters by their skin kin, is born out of Nationalism, and its ill's, so African Americans should be happy, in a way, to be so Individualistic, yes fractured, but still smart enough not to assume, that your skin color makes you a brother or a friend, lol. #3 Black Fighters, by in large, no matter which country they represent, dominated the sport of boxing, since its inception, so theres always been a standard set apart, a higher standard, due to genetics, naturally the more gifted athlete. these days , that isnt the case, but theres reason for that too, but w/o going too far down that rabbit hole, will just call it the ever changing social/economical/political wind fall through the nation for the last 30 years or so. ....to produce Socialism, and all its many ills. .....wake up , and smell the ashes.