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

[TrueBoxingFan23]

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

Your biased opinion vs all pro trainers and boxers who call him great

[texasboi15]

Conor is cool and an icon. The dude is charming like hell

Floyd is a serial woman beater, vile and not charming one bit.

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[texasboi15]

hey fraud, you dont suck because youre black. You suck because you are a moron...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.

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[TrueBoxingFan23]

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.

Hell No! You guys have a messed up perception! I know a lot of black people that can't stand him. My father included! I don't condone abusive men being that my mom was a victim, but I respect the fighter! Personally he's not intellectual and has some screws loose, but we all fall short! I respect his hard work and the skills he posses! Skill wise, I think he is the best ever. Now whether he's the greatest boxer of all time is debatable but he's in the conversation! You talk about women beating! Did you know MMA has the highest rate of domestic abuse. That beats, boxing, football, and basketball! Mma is a predominantly white sport! I don't hear fans bashing them

[NaijaD]

Hell No! You guys have a messed up perception! I know a lot of black people that can't stand him. My father included! I don't condone abusive men being that my mom was a victim, but I respect the fighter! Personally he's not intellectual and has some screws loose, but we all fall short! I respect his hard work and the skills he posses! Skill wise, I think he is the best ever. Now whether he's the greatest boxer of all time is debatable but he's in the conversation! You talk about women beating! Did you know MMA has the highest rate of domestic abuse. That beats, boxing, football, and basketball! Mma is a predominantly white sport! I don't hear fans bashing them

I think you got the wrong guy with your reply lol.

[texasboi15]

Floyd is a well known demestic abusers who can't read.

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[TrueBoxingFan23]

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

Wow! Great post

[TrueBoxingFan23]

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

The thing is, boxing is one of the few sports where you can earn it and still not receive the reward that you would if you were a different race. (Ward, Rigo) for example! Rigo demolished Donaire the cash cow, top 3 at the time P4P and he got black balled for it! Explain that

[texasboi15]

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..He could have gone out of his way to help combat demestic

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[WesternChamp]

The thing is, boxing is one of the few sports where you can earn it and still not receive the reward that you would if you were a different race. (Ward, Rigo) for example! Rigo demolished Donaire the cash cow, top 3 at the time P4P and he got black balled for it! Explain that

Rigo cant even spell his own name in english. How the f u suppose to be a star in the US if u cant speak a word or make an effort to learn it? Name any other fighter who is not black that cant speak a word in english but is getting all this special treatment??? Not to mention, Rigo doesnt have any followers, his fan base is like what 30 people? His own people aint even rooting for him. And if u are complaining that he's not getting the shine he deserve, ask his manager, the one who is overlooking his career. When was Ward's last fight again????? How do u expect these guys to be ranked or held any higher if they lack the tools to get them there, in ward's case, not putting in enough work to show the people. What i sense from Floyd and his followers is that all black fighters should be held at the highest standard, doesnt matter about skills, etc.