Comments Thread For: Sulaiman Comments on Racism Rant From Floyd Mayweather

[Progrssive_Jedi]

a "special needs guy" has generatred over 1 buillion in revenue. how much have you generate4d for your community, fam, yourself..

go stand in the sun

Floyd has so much power and influence, he could be doing so much good. He could give 10% of his money and impact so many people.

I once read Floyd gave less than $50,000 dollars to charity his entire career. I'm not sure if that is true, but I don't believe he is a giver. Not to the poor. He gives to his friends, etc.

If it's anything under $30 mill, it's pathetic. The man made $150 mill in one fight.

Floyd is a well known demestic abusers who can't read. That's a product of his environment. But...

He could have turned this into a lesson to help others. A high profile situation where Floyd learns to read, showing young people that reading is vital, because 99.9% of everyone isn't gonna be rich. No, Floyd didn't use that opportunity. He could have gone out of his way to help combat demestic

No, he focuses on a faux problem within boxing.

Is there bias, yes. And I'm sure a small part is race. (Not that Floyd didn't brilliantly use it to enrich himself, which was awesome. I loved it.). Just not his ring work.

But most the bias is style based. People like fighters who come to put on a fan friendly show. To fight. Not hold, clinch, run and jab.

And don't give me that sweet science BS, stick and move is great.

Tap, run, grab arms, clich, hugg, etc is painful to watch.

Floyd, Ward, Rigo, won't ever get fans to love that style of boxing. Not outside of some hardcore fans.

People will love GGG's style.

People will love what Spence appears to bring to the table.

These two come to fight.

[licketysplityu]

The worst racist is Mayweather who continually throws it up in the face of the white world what an outrageous run he's made by fooling him with his non-boxing...boxing. He's a piece of sh***t

[licketysplityu]

..."him/them"...

[firstborn]

Conor is cool and an icon. The dude is charming like hell, and is funny when he trash talks.
Floyd is a serial woman beater, vile and not charming one bit. Floyd is rightly hated. The man's an embarrassment to black people.

It is sad to see so many black people look up to an illiterate woman beater.

McGregor is definitely funny but I'm not sure if he's considered charming. I follow MMA too and the majority of his peers think he's obnoxious. In regards to Mayweather, aside from the few anonymous people on this forum, how many black people do you know personally that look up to Mayweather? I don't know many......

[Manic Shot]

Bark Bark Bark!

[NaijaD]

McGregor is definitely funny but I'm not sure if he's considered charming. I follow MMA too and the majority of his peers think he's obnoxious. In regards to Mayweather, aside from the few anonymous people on this forum, how many black people do you know personally that look up to Mayweather? I don't know many......

To be honest I don't get it either, seems like if you're black and have anything positive to say about Floyd then you must be a struggling black brotha looking up to Floyd and living life through him. Guys like him probably watch Worldstar hiphop and think that it represents everything about black people. The stereotyping is unreal lol.

[Bronx2245]

Floyd's charge of racism is invalid, however there's a lot of double standards in boxing, and a lot has to do with media politics, namely HBO vs. Haymon and Showtime. HBO loved Mayweather when he was on HBO, and quickly became hater #1 when Mayweather left! HBO won't say anything negative about GGG while GGG is fighting there. They won't call out GGG for demanding a catch weight for Ward, mainly because they favor GGG, and because Pacquiao was the "Catch Weight Champion" of the world! HBO never had much to say about the "suspect shakes," but they have a lot to say about "Saline IVs." HBO portrayed Mayweather as "ducking" Pacquiao, but had nothing to say about "scared of needles," "need an outdoor stadium," etc. HBO has spear-headed the "Hate Mayweather" campaign, and the worse example of their double standards is this:

The HBO blow-by-blow announcer asserted in his final comments on “The Fight Game With Jim Lampley” that there’s no place in boxing for Mayweather’s increasingly boorish behavior and added the sport’s pound-for-pound king couldn’t retire soon enough. Boxing fans and writers have denounced Lampley’s assessment as an agenda-driven attack because Mayweather, once HBO’s flagship fighter, performs exclusively on Showtime as part of a six-fight, 30-month contract he signed with CBS, Showtime’s parent company, in February 2013. Critics also have lambasted Lampley as a hypocrite because he mentioned Mayweather’s repulsive reaction to besmirched Ravens running back Ray Rice’s season-long suspension and alluded to Mayweather’s 61-day incarceration following a September 2010 domestic violence incident. Those critics have pointed out Lampley pleaded no-contest to violating a restraining order in February 2007 that was issued following his arrest in January 2007, when his then-fiancee, Candice Sanders, alleged he attacked her at her apartment in Encinitas, Calif. Lampley was sentenced to three years of probation and 40 hours of community service, fined and admitted into a domestic violence counseling program after he pled no-contest to violating the aforementioned restraining order. Charges were not filed against Lampley, however, based on Sanders’ allegations because investigators didn’t find sufficient evidence to support her claims.

http://www.boxingscene.com/hbos-lamp...iticism--82260

Floyd has a legit beef with HBO, but he shouldn't pull the race card!

[TrueBoxingFan23]

What's absolutely funny about this is, Mayweather was discussing the structure of boxing as related to fighters, promoters, networks, and endorsements, Sulaiman used Mayweathers popularity, or infamy, to argue agaisnt the notion. Simply hilarious, because Mayweathers fame or hate was orchestrated by himself. Look at the way HBO treated DLH and Mayweather in those years before they fought, even though Mayweather was clearly the better of the two and at that time knocking people out, and absolutely dismantling opponents. Its no secret that networks and promoters do not consider black fans a major demographic. outside of the heavyweight devision theres barely even an attempt to connect with a black fan base. So for years it's been rinse and repeat, Mexican, Puerto Rican, other Latin's, the great white hope's, and the black Heavyweight.

I would also say this, these fighters do, and should be getting more support from they're core fan bases. The way black fighters are not marketed and exposed as fervently as other fighters is a travesty, but it is also the responsibility of the fans to demand, and push, its really the only way to affect change.

Ill end with this, how is it that an Island as small as Puerto Rico continues to produce stars, it ain't the promoters.

Good post! The only reason Floyd was treated bad by HBO is because of Jim Lampley and Lederman. They can't stand him, which they are very known but Lampley is very very biased! He's really the only reason I don't like HBO boxing. He's never neutral and announces like a casual fan. The Gatti list is a joke. Hardly any are HOF and uses that list to bash the master boxers of the sport.
But there is racism or biasness in the sport mostly regarding black fighters. Rigo was stripped for not fighting mandatories that didn't want to fight him. If he were Mexican he would be rated #1 in the sport, but instead they praise Chocklatido who is good but hasn't fought anybody because his division is weak. That goes for him and GGG but they praise them. If they were black they would say that they need to move up and challenge themselves!

[Dean_Razorback]

what did arreola say? for what i remember broner didn't say anything racist (if we are talking about the molina fight) it was pretty dumb, like most of the things he say but not racist

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Floyd has so much power and influence, he could be doing so much good. He could give 10% of his money and impact so many people.

I once read Floyd gave less than $50,000 dollars to charity his entire career. I'm not sure if that is true, but I don't believe he is a giver. Not to the poor. He gives to his friends, etc.

If it's anything under $30 mill, it's pathetic. The man made $150 mill in one fight.

Floyd is a well known demestic abusers who can't read. That's a product of his environment. But...

He could have turned this into a lesson to help others. A high profile situation where Floyd learns to read, showing young people that reading is vital, because 99.9% of everyone isn't gonna be rich. No, Floyd didn't use that opportunity. He could have gone out of his way to help combat demestic

No, he focuses on a faux problem within boxing.

Is there bias, yes. And I'm sure a small part is race. (Not that Floyd didn't brilliantly use it to enrich himself, which was awesome. I loved it.). Just not his ring work.

But most the bias is style based. People like fighters who come to put on a fan friendly show. To fight. Not hold, clinch, run and jab.

And don't give me that sweet science BS, stick and move is great.

Tap, run, grab arms, clich, hugg, etc is painful to watch.

Floyd, Ward, Rigo, won't ever get fans to love that style of boxing. Not outside of some hardcore fans.

People will love GGG's style.

People will love what Spence appears to bring to the table.

These two come to fight.

I get what your saying as far as helping the community. But style wise I still think its a race thing, because if those fighters mentioned were white or Hispanic they would get praised. Some has to do with the demographic of the sport, but its a way to bring down a black fighter. It's just like UFC which I also love. They have many styles, and I use to hate the wrestler that just wants to lay on you and wear you down the whole fight or the jujitsu fighter who never wants to stand up but will just lay on the ground to catch you slipping. But as you study the sport you grow to respect every style and learn their purpose. I never hear fighters in the ufc get bashed for styles if their at the top! Why? Because 90% are white or from another country.
Racism is just apart of the world but I respect Floyd for not allowing that to hold him back. He could have easily been a Ward or Rigo