Floyd: There's no white fighters dominating Boxing, MMA is for white fighters

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White people are such a tiny % of the global population it's kind of amazing that they have any presence in international level sports/athletics at all.

[BrometheusBob.]

White people are such a tiny % of the global population it's kind of amazing that they have any presence in international level sports/athletics at all.

What?

What do you think the percentage of people globally who are White is?

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What?

What do you think the percentage of people globally who are White is?

It's around 10% depending on how strict your definition is.

If you only consider fair northern/western Europeans white, then it's in the low single digits, and they are slated to become minorities in their own countries by around 2050.

If you include mediterreans/northern middle eastern people and slightly mixed people, then it's a bit higher.

Either way, the number is rapidly shrinking.

A lot of Americans don't seem to know this because or our funky usage of the terms "majority" and "minority".

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[BrometheusBob.]

It's around 10% depending on how strict your definition is.

If you only consider fair Europeans white then it's in the low single digits.

The number is rapidly shrinking, too.

A lot of Americans don't seem to know this because or our funky usage of the terms "majority" and "minority".

I would have guessed closer to 15%

Anyway, it's your opinion that it's a surprise a group comprising what you say is about 10% of the global population has any prescence in international level sports/athletics at all?

[boxing_pundit85]

Is this still a prevailing opinion in the Boxing world?

I've heard Bob Arum said some stuff like this in the past too.

(paraphrasing from this video interview)

And this racial comment authored by "floyd" is news today. The same day that showtime aired a california black riot doc. Amistad was aired. 12 years a slave was shown back to back, the black panther movie is being hyped, bet awards are tomorrow ( sure to stir up racial tensions like last year)

Some racial violence/ distraction will happen in july. Theyre making sure.

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I would have guessed closer to 15%

Anyway, it's your opinion that it's a surprise a group comprising what you say is about 10% of the global population has any prescence in international level sports/athletics at all?

Let's revise it to "a significant presence". In theory there should be even fewer white boxers than there are.

Just contrasting the American perspective (black minority is over-represented in sports, whites considered unathletic) to the global big picture (whites, an even smaller minority, are even more over-represented in sports).

[BrometheusBob.]

Let's revise it to "a significant presence". In theory there should be even fewer white boxers than there are.

Just contrasting the American perspective (black minority is over-represented in sports, whites considered unathletic) to the global big picture (whites, an even smaller minority, are even more over-represented in sports).

A curious observation.

I don't know nearly enough about most other sports, especially about sports Americans are not known for competing in meaningfully internationally (Soccer etc), to offer a theory about that difference in racial representation.

[lizard_man]

What happened to the video?

[Mr. 29K]

Well, it all got started with Latinos wrecking shht, er, Brazilians anyway at first.

Royce Gracie = Brazilian
Vitor Belfort = Brazilian
Frank Shamrock = Mexican-American
Tito Ortiz = Mexican-American

Tito Ortiz was the first true superstar of the sport. Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, Matt Hughes were all Caucasian-Americans who ruled in the mid 2000's but it's not like others haven't.

Lots and lots of non-White/non-Americans have been stars & champs in MMA; Kazushi Sakuraba, Minotauro Nogueira, Fedor Emelianenko, Takanori Gomi, BJ Penn, Anderson Silva, Shogun Rua, Rampage Jackson, GSP, Jose Aldo, Cain Velasquez, Jon Jones... on and on... were non-White Americans

The MMA GOAT -- There are only 3 or 4 fighters that have a claim for being the GOAT in MMA and none of them are Caucasian-Americans...

- Anderson Silva = Afro-Brazilian
- Fedor Emelianenko = Ukrainian/Russian
- Georges St Pierre = French-Canadian
- Jon Jones = Afro-American

Aww, how te hell could I forget about Tito Ortiz. Man, those were the days. Green k