Let's be real here...(warning, more racial ****)

[Real King Kong]

I would. Look at the HW division, for example. Who are the top 10 fighters of all time? I might sneak Dempsey in there. All the rest are black.

Top 20, maybe you throw in Marciano, too. But 18 of the other guys are black.

Forgetting weight classes and going P4P, you start seeing somebody like Duran (a non-black, non-white) in the top 5 or so, but again...same story, most of your top 10, top 20 are black.

And the black population in the USA is around 13% or something....

Well if you look at the rings 80 best of the last 80 years...the top 20 is 50/50 black and non-black. Either way...my point is more about some black fans being unwilling to accept non-black fighters as being top fighters in this era. All you ever hear is unskilled, euro bum...blah blah. Time to wake up and look at the last few olympics. The rest of the world is catching up.

[GGG Gloveking]

I think an interesting barometer to measure this would be to compare Golovkin fans (since people seem to want to consider a half Soviet, half Korean fighter 'white') with Wilder fans. Both have similar resumes of KOing anybody in front of them, while not necessarily getting the best fighters in their respective divisions in the ring. How many white GGG fans are also fans of The Bronze Bomber, vs how many black Wilder fans are also fans of Golovkin?

Im white and a fan of both.

[The Comic DON]

Exactly!

Green K sir!

Aldo is that you? I think you gave yourself away.

[Hype job]

I'll be honest in what I see. People of other races/nationalities are more open to admire black boxers than some black people admiring boxers from other places/races.

This!

The hatred and projection in this post is obviously showing signs of hidden feelings that needed to burst out some day. What you say is false, and actually all races have nationalistic fans, but the most racist one's are obvious and they are us (latinos) and the whites. Black fans can easily counter what you said with the fact that boxing was predominantly a white sport (***ish, italian, irish) for the poor white people and now you are jealous because ever since poor blacks and latinos took over they had more ATG's in a shorter period of time, and latinos jealous because blacks have more ATG's than them. But they shouldn't be jealous because blacks have been boxing for longer than us

This is my take as a neutral fan who is not American, white, or black

You're not fooling anybody, you're a mixed race man with black ancestry with origins from a largely black/mixed country. And you're not "neutral" you're probably subscribed to Dontae's boxing Nation.

[Motorcity Cobra]

No just the best individual in his sport. Point being whites have spent billions on air Jordan's and it had nothing to do with the bulls.hes still the highest paid by nike.

So you completely missed the whole point of my post. Why even bother to quote me if you didn't read it? I specifically pointed out individual sports. Your answer to that is to name a player on a team sport. In my post I even explained why what I said differs in individual and team sports. You're so quick to try to dismiss a point I'm not even trying to make

[Doritos]

Disagree with this 100%

The reason black fighters are more prevalent is because sports being a way out of poverty is generally something for those of a lower status. When the Irish were poor in America they had more boxers. When the Polish and the Germans were poor they had more fighters.

The plight of the black community contributes to the lack of education and means of getting out of poverty and most of representation they have is sports.

You can disagree all you want but you haven't refuted anything I've said, just added a different reason to what you believe contributed to it.

The plight of the black community is caused by themselves in this day and age.

[al-Xander]

It's not even about skill. Lomachenko, for example, is a boxing technician. Yet the Floyd fanboys hate him. Guess why.

[GGG Gloveking]

... Why even bother to quote me if you didn't read it? ...

I had somebody do that to me the other day. Starts calling me names, then I dumb out on him as usual, lol, then he has the nerve to say , I didn't read your whole post.. WTF?!?

[stuff jones]

People relate to those who look like them. Boxing is a sport where you don't root for team colors so you root for your color. The same can be said for other individual sports. Maria Sharapova got more endorsements than Serena Williams not because she was the better player. But the sponsors used her to sell their products to people who look like her. Tiger Woods made it clear from day one that he didn't identify as Black. He wanted to make sure he could be used to sell products to people who didn't look like him. If he identified as Black, Phil Mickelson would've been the highest paid player on the tour.

That's nonsense. Sharapova was considered more attractive. Serena is jacked like a man. Especially in women, attractiveness sells. That's why Anna Kornakova was so popular despite being a bad player.

Enough with everything being about race. ****, the world must be so simple through your eyes.

[Lester Tutor]

I thought it wasn't allowed to create race bait threads....