Can the Euro Bum Myth Die Now?

[Sweet Pea 50]

Oh no. The American and Euro boxing scenes are solid. The Asians are as well. It's a sport that is always shifting and I like it. The more diverse the better for the sport.

It truly has become a global sport.

I'm going to pull for the people that come from my country the majority of the time. Just how I was raised, and probably my age.

But I respect and admire fighters from elsewhere as well.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

The Eastern Euros are beasts, the Western not so much.

Calzaghe was unreal. Loved watching him. I like Frampton a lot, too. But yeah. Kovalev, Golovkin, Lomachenko. The Eastern Euros have been killing it.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

It truly has become a global sport.

I'm going to pull for the people that come from my country the majority of the time. Just how I was raised, and probably my age.

But I respect and admire fighters from elsewhere as well.

Oh no doubt. Many people feel that way and I totally get it.

I can't say I'm the same though. I really look at each fighter and decide who I like just based on their style and if I enjoy watching them as to whether I'll root for them. I like busy fighters but also talented, not just throwing punches to be throwing them. Every move must have a reason behind it or they'll get took. A lot of action though is what I prefer to see.

[KillaCamNZ]

Yeah, I've finally come to understand it's all BS with him. I do wonder why in the hell he does it. Attention?

Yep - just the same as any other troll here. Boxing is secondary to having their nonsense validated.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Yep - just the same as any other troll here. Boxing is secondary to having their nonsense validated.

LOL. It's a very strange culture. I don't get it.

[low blows]

White Americans are the ones who popularized that phrase when describing western Europeans. It's weird how they relate to Eastern Europeans more than Western Europeans. And not just in boxing. Kessler gets more love than Froch. There used to be a time when you could put the name "Irish" on any white fighter and he'd get support. Now you got people saying Loma had a better year than Frampton. You got Joe Smith Jr coming off an impressive KO and he's about to fight Hopkins but he's getting no love. That kid Sosa is a hell of a fighter and improving but he gets no love. I don't know if promoters messed it up by pushing so many great white hypes but seems like white Americans don't support white American fighters or white Western European fighters.

Sosa is White? I thought he is a White Latino of PR background? That's not White in America(too political).

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Sosa is White? I thought he is a White Latino of PR background? That's not White in America(too political).

I pretty much count white as European ancestry and features. Sosa looks the part of obviously Canelo does. Hispanics can very much be white. That's my definition though. Everyone has a different one.

[low blows]

Yes I know that but the dumb media and the average meathead fan doesn't. Similar to Sammy Vasquez the Blonde welterweight.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Yes I know that but the dumb media and the average meathead fan doesn't. Similar to Sammy Vasquez the Blonde welterweight.

Haha. Well, you're right about that. There are many meatheads too.

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It's not a myth, its just resentment

When everything from MW-HW was solidly european titlists those guys suddenly decided there's no skill in the heavier divisions and pretended to be obsessed with (insert name) flyweight prospect

if every belt in boxing were in eastern euro hands these guys would suddenly love MMA

Plain old resentment from people who wish the "baddest man on the planet" was still some guy from down the tracks because it makes them feel tough by association