the increse in racial anomosity among boxing fans is due to recent matchmaking....

[GhostofDempsey]

And the day after that, many of those same rallying 'fans' would have had Joe Louis and anyone who looked him arrested had he tried to use the same public accommodations as them or walked through the front door of the vast majority of any hotels, restaurants, bars, or stores that those same adoring 'fans' frequented and/or used.




And yet, those same hometown 'fans' would build a statute and celebrate the legacy of a fictional Philadelphia boxer (Rocky Balboa) ahead of one of the best HWs in history.




You can't have it both ways.

The exact same thing could be said for Floyd Mayweather. Yet you seem quite comfortable pinning the 'racism' in boxing on his Black 'hip hop' fanbase.

This is also ironic considering White folk are ubiquitous consumers of Hip Hop's (your words) "culture of disrespect, money-grabbing, and treating women like possessions".

Again, history disagrees with you.

Hip-hop culture as it is known today isn't about black or white, it's about corporate greed and marketing. There is no "soul" to hip-hop in the 21st century. It's auto-tuned pop music, no different than Top 40. It sells an image to those who are simple-minded enough to buy into it.

But you choose to harbor hate and bitterness and see the world through your own biases, while accusing me and millions of others of doing the same. You are unable to look at race and boxing objectively.

[sicko]

I kinda think back and LAUGH at Arum Rant about how UFC is Racist and have a bunch of Skin Head Fans:



To see boxing fans behave WORSE than UFC fans now is kinda Ironic! To be honest, it is mostly this forum and the few losers who have no live so they spend their pathetic days bouncing from Social Media to this forum with their BS but these same people would never ever spew their BS at a Live Boxing Even. It is great that no much incident happen at boxing events because the Cowards don't leave their homes

Easy to be Big, Bad, Tough and Racist over the Internet! Anybody can do that!

[Sweet Jones]

Hip-hop culture as it is known today isn't about black or white, it's about corporate greed and marketing. There is no "soul" to hip-hop in the 21st century. It's auto-tuned pop music, no different than Top 40. It sells an image to those who are simple-minded enough to buy into it.

But you choose to harbor hate and bitterness and see the world through your own biases, while accusing me and millions of others of doing the same. You are unable to look at race and boxing objectively.

This is quite rich coming from someone who believes 'racism' in boxing started with 'the Mayweather Era'. Oh, the irony.

Again, the WELL DOCUMENTED history of the sport disagrees with you.

[Dean_Razorback]

what? you started a thread with coherent sentences? wtf?

[Madison Boxing]

no, its because theres white europeans being talked about in a pound for pound sense and it makes your lot insecure. so your insecurity manifests itself in hatred.

[BoxingFan85]

back in the days it would be pretty rare for a white boxer to fight a black boxer,,it would only happen very rarely on a large scale,,

think about it,the biggest fights involving a high profile white vs black was pavlik vs hopkins and froch vs taylor,,,these fights would happen but it would be rare and they only took place when absoluteely needed.

but now a days they got kovalev vs ward, kovalev vs ward II, GGG vs Jacobs, Loma vs Walters, crawford vs postol, wlad vs jacobs, wilder vs povetkin. it's constnatly white vs black over and over again,,they just trying to separate everybody by putting out this fake race war!!

u ppl need to see past that and stop with racismt!

wlad vs jacobs !!?

I knew it! I knew it! GGG was facing a HW in Jacobs that night & that's why he couldn't KO him...

Stax can you loan me your Oxnard dictionary, I need to brush up on my TOEFL..

[GhostofDempsey]

This is quite rich coming from someone who believes 'racism' in boxing started with 'the Mayweather Era'. Oh, the irony.

Again, the WELL DOCUMENTED history of the sport disagrees with you.

I didn't say it started with Mayweather, but it certainly has picked up some steam over the years since his fight with De La Hoya. Fans weren't this racially divided during the mid-80's, 90's and early 2000's. Not sure how old you are, but I lived through those years as a fan and I can attest to how it is now versus then. Racism will always exist, but if you think it is all one-sided, then you need to wipe the fog from your glasses.

[Beercules]

Down with whitey

[Kuyukut]

it's whitey's fault!

[Sweet Jones]

I didn't say it started with Mayweather, but it certainly has picked up some steam over the years since his fight with De La Hoya. Fans weren't this racially divided during the mid-80's, 90's and early 2000's. Not sure how old you are, but I lived through those years as a fan and I can attest to how it is now versus then. Racism will always exist, but if you think it is all one-sided, then you need to wipe the fog from your glasses.

Really, then please explain in what other way should should this be interpreted? (LINK TO POST):

Actually, blacks and whites fought one another even more decades prior. Going back to the days of Joe Louis, Ray Robinson, Henry Armstrong, Emile Griffith, Marvin Hagler, Bob Foster, and all of the old time greats. It hasn't become a problem or a divide until the Mayweather era, where a certain cluster of black fans (mostly casuals) had an arrogant, ****y, very wealthy black man to live through vicariously. An unapologetic racist who disrespects his opponents, built upon the hip-hop culture of disrespect, money-grabbing, and treating women like possessions. That's not to say that all Mayweather fans are inherently racist, because they are not. True boxing fans, regardless of race, are able to give credit where credit is due and will cheer for the fighter who is most entertaining or skilled.