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

[WesternChamp]

Pretty much said the exact same thing. 95% of the highest paid athletes are blacks but there's racism and double standards with black athletes right......

[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.

Also when you step up in comp you will see a fighter fight smarter. Ggg did it with Lamue as well as many other fighters because if they don't they will eventually lose and probably get TKO'd. Matysse boxed the guy who almost killed Bradley can't think of his name, but that was suppose to be a blood bath but it was a boxing match! And if Floyd would have drained himself like 98% of other boxers and stayed at 135 or 140lbs he would have more TKO's but like I said black fighters are forced to move up

[TrueBoxingFan23]

Pretty much said the exact same thing. 95% of the highest paid athletes are blacks but there's racism and double standards with black athletes right......

Those are the athletes that are dominant and can't be denied. You can't deny Labron, Kobie, Cam, Sereena Williams, depending on the sport. Ask the William sisters or Tiger! They all have faced racism. It's just the way of the world.

[Bronx2245]

February 4, 2013:

During last night's Super Bowl, one professional boxer appeared in a commercial. It was not Floyd Mayweather, and it was not Manny Pacquiao, though they are the two highest-earning athletes in all of sports. It was not any champion of any weight division at all. It was Mike Lee, a mediocre light heavyweight with only 11 fights. Why? Because Mike Lee went to Notre Dame, and because Mike Lee is white.

Boxing has a Great White Hope problem. (It's more of a problem if you're not white.) It always has. It's a cliché with its own Wikipedia entry, for ****'s sake. Since before the days of Jack Johnson, the white businessmen who run boxing have been very consciously on the hunt for white fighters with potential, because they are perceived as gold mines. This is racist. It is clearly and inarguably racist, when you look at the gallery of boxing's champions from the past half-century or so and consider how few white fighters are among them. The very idea of a Great White Hope is an outright dismissal of boxing's real champions. It is a statement that what matters is not success in the sport at hand, but marketing power, based solely on racial identification.

Boxing is elemental. It is a symbolic version of tribal warfare. It is populated by ethnic tribes that support their own kind— Irish fans for Irish fighters, Puerto Rican fans for Puerto Rican fighters, Mexican fans for Mexican fighters, and on and on. The problem, from the perspective of boxing promoters, is that plain old white fans, who have more money than anyone, have few members of their tribe to root for. The number of boxing champions who grew up in the suburbs is frightfully thin. The number of boxing champions who are white in that classic sort of "all-American" way is basically zero. This is not an actual problem; this is a marketing problem, for people whose business it is to milk racial identification for dollars...

Most new fighters, even solid prospects with impressive amateur records, need to win 10 to 15 fights before anyone really considers giving them plum spots on big time undercards, or even on TV. Mike Lee was on the undercard of a pay-per-view Manny Pacquiao match (as big as boxing gets) for his third fight. His third fight...

Bernard Hopkins was in jail at the age when Mike Lee was attending Notre Dame. Hopkins went on to win the world middleweight championship and defend it successfully 20 times. He's still fighting, and announcing, on HBO at the age of 48. There's a mural of him in the prison where he used to be caged up. He's a world-class fighter. Where is his Subway commercial? Andre Ward is an Olympic gold medalist, devoted father, and staunch Christian. He's a world-class fighter. Where is his Subway commercial? Guillermo Rigondeaux, widely considered one of the best amateur fighters in history, left his family behind and risked everything to defect from Cuba to America in order to become a champion and earn a fortune with his own two hands like a goddamn transcription of the "American Dream" entry in the encyclopedia. Where is his Subway sandwich commercial on television's biggest stage?

All of these guys have the type of inspirational stories that should appeal to even the most conservative sporting fans. And all of these guys have something that Mike Lee doesn't: world-class talent. They are boxing stars, in the truest sense of the word. Pound for pound, all of them are much, much better fighters than Mike Lee is or ever will be. But Mike Lee does have one thing that none of these superior fighters has: He is white. And he went to a well-known college with a large fan base. So Mike Lee gets a Subway commercial during the Super Bowl.

http://deadspin.com/5981429/boxings-...owl-commercial

[Bronx2245]

July 23, 2014:

Last night I was asking a friend about Bob Arum's unpopular plan for his biggest star in Manny Pacquiao to fight an unheralded nobody this November and he summed it up by saying, “Boxing is ******, it's awful.” I pressed him, “But why? Why is this fight being made?” And like all boxing fans not related to the opponent Chris Algieri, he shrugged before repeating, “Boxing is ******.”

While the business of boxing might be ******, but Bob Arum is not, so what gives? If nothing else, this decision is a clear message to boxing fans that Arum isn't concerned about pleasing loyal boxing fans, he figures you'll follow anyway...

Boxing is ******.

And the reward could be immense. As an educated white kid from the suburbs with manners who is looking to enter medical school, Arum knows he has a possible Great White Hope on legal PEDs, a story to sell to mainstream America.

“I think Chris Algieri is a terrific fighter and a big talent. It's almost like a return to Gene Tunney," Arum blustered to the press when announcing the fight. "He's a college kid, he's articulate, he could be a medical doctor. Give me those kind of guys in this sport. I see him as the reincarnation of Tunney. I thought he deserved the victory, absolutely. He neutralized Provodnikov after the first round."

It's funny for Arum to compare Algieri to Tunney, the guy who was unable to knock Jack Dempsey out in two fights and won a controversial decision due to the infamous “long count,” because to many, Algieri had no business winning his decision over the harder punching Ruslan Provodnikov. But like Tunney, he did enough to some people, and like Tunney he betrays an education; which is somehow still shocking to so many people that a boxer could be intelligent, nearly 100 years after sportswriters whipped themselves into orgies describing Tunney's training camp bookshelves...

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...-in-on-algieri

[Lou Cipher]

Roid Pedcheater Jr is so transparent with his racial tirades over his failed ventures with his token white boy Justin Bieber at his side. hey fraud, you dont suck because youre black. You suck because you are a moron more worried about how you are perceived than actual success. I'll be slipping you 5 dollar bills for coffee and donuts in less than 5 years just like I used to do for Jeff.

[WesternChamp]

Those are the athletes that are dominant and can't be denied. You can't deny Labron, Kobie, Cam, Sereena Williams, depending on the sport. Ask the William sisters or Tiger! They all have faced racism. It's just the way of the world.

well, if u dont earn it how is that racist and double standard?

[Fangedgrowl]

If Floyd was any other race then his own comments and rants about Pacquaio, McGregor, etc would be considered racism and he would be run out of the sport.

We have to treat him like a special needs child for his entire life though. It's "the rules".

Everything he says is "adorable and special", everything everyone else says is "ignorant and offensive".

So true Real. Why is there such a double standard for one group over others. It 's crazy because Black comedians can make fun of all kinds of other people it is laughed at , cute, ole he is just playing, , yet when any other group says something everyone is offended. That is the standard Floyd is playing around with. Adrian Broner got crucified for saying things against others in his post ring interview.

[WesternChamp]

Those are the athletes that are dominant and can't be denied. You can't deny Labron, Kobie, Cam, Sereena Williams, depending on the sport. Ask the William sisters or Tiger! They all have faced racism. It's just the way of the world.

So what is Floyd crying about then? That all black athletes should get paid the highest even if they suck?

[WesternChamp]

Floyd should be the last to talk about double standards in boxing. This is the same dude that got away with a lot of **** because.. "A-SIDE".