American Boxers claiming countries other than USA

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Beat me to it. The only one that stood out to me was Garcia with the PR thing. Not a different 'country' but for a Philly boy to be waiving the PR flag when his only relationship to PR is genetics, it's pretty phony, IMO.
I don't really care all that much, it just jumps out as being corny and pandering.

He never represented the PR flag as far as I can remember. The whole time was Philly this and Philly that. Then the Morales fight came around and he wants to pull out the PR flag simply because he wants to sell himself to an audience that he never really cared about.

Does it really matter? I mean he's only reppin his heritage. I'm sure growing up in Philly Garcia has always identified himself as a Rican.

It bothers me because if he really cared about his heritage and representing then he would had been doing so from the very beginning of his career.

[La_Vibora]

Roy Jones Jr. becoming 100% Russian and even rooting for his "countrymen" Kovalev over Ward is what that tweet is referring to.

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The US used to be a nation but doesn't really fit that definition anymore. It's still a country but not a "nation" or "nationality".

No central culture, practically non-existent borders. I like living in America but you can't pretend you don't understand why boxers wouldn't want to feel like a warrior for a specific culture instead of a big melting pot trading port people stop by, piss on, leave.

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Only a Trump supporter would think like that dumb b**ch and that punk Spence, . Just because they're culture-less scum they want everybody else to be too.

I am a Trump supporter and walk around knocking out hippy & hood rat teeth just for fun. Cry son.

[siablo14]

Who does that? Rarely seen that done to be honest but she is around the sport more than us and see what is going on behind the scenes since she does PR. Not really a big deal though, if guys are American but also represent the country their Parents are originally from Haiti or Cuba or Mexico it is nothing wrong with that. Spence Jr Parents are Jamaican I seen his dad with a Jamaican flag during his fights

Thanks for pointing that out. His grandmother has a home back there. Jamaicans pop-up everywhere though. Floyd Mayweather Jr's grandfather was Jamaican too.

Lennox Lewis' mom is Jamaican
Kell Brook's dad is Jamaican

[Bigg Rigg]

Peter Quillin, Willie Monroe - Cuba
Danny Garcia, Gabe Rosado - Puerto Rico (not another country, but...)
Oscar DelaHoya, Brandon Rios, Victor Ortiz - Mexico
Paulie Malinaggi - Italy
Micky Ward - Ireland

Danny Garcia is a good ol' American because he's a Famous Boxing World Champion. If he was in jail or stuck in the hood in Philly hustling, he would just be a Puerto Rican. Let's not kid ourselves.

[sicko]

Beat me to it. The only one that stood out to me was Garcia with the PR thing. Not a different 'country' but for a Philly boy to be waiving the PR flag when his only relationship to PR is genetics, it's pretty phony, IMO.
I don't really care all that much, it just jumps out as being corny and pandering.

I don't now about that, Angel ranted about this during the build of Lucas Matthysse fight years ago about how everybody want to be everything else but AMERICAN

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Forget fighters lets talk about FANS claiming not just Countries but an entire REGION OF THE WORLD they're not from, never been to and really have no type of Cultural Connection with but they're pilling on Eastern European Bandwagons it is A LOT of that going on now that is VERY FUNNY!

[ΣNΣMY]

It means nothing.

The USA (what you should be calling what you call "america") is a nation made up of immigrants, who often are as attached to their origins if not moreso than loyalist sentiments towards the USA.

I am an amateur boxer and I am a first generation estadounidense, and I would represent Colombia before the USA if I turned pro, if i'm keeping i 100 like a C-note, and i'm also a US Army veteran who did tours in Iraq and the Ghan.

How do you like dem apples?

stolen valor!

[Kigali]

It's always the Mexican-American fighters. Puerto Rican American sometimes too. But it's mainly the Mexican-American.

It's embarrassing because it's just pandering. They have little ties to Mexican culture. They don't listen to Vicente Fernandez, yet they choose his music as their entrance song to pander. They're not keeping it real.

You're an American. You pay taxes in America not Mexico.

You mean they cheat taxes in America not Mexico.

[Golden Boi 360]

Floyd's grandfather was Jamaican? Never knew that