Comments Thread For: Deontay Wilder: If I Wasn't Black - I'd Get More U.S. Media Respect

[OnePunch]

You are just another example of people who cry racist the most being the most racist.

Cool bro, way to negate any and all of your opinions on the matter - the fact is if just 10% of the black fans who support Mayweather came out to support Wilder, he'd be much, much more famous. But I suppose they are racist against Wilder too

BOOM. /end thread

['b']

what white hw is getting our attention

Dunno, but I wish CW Usyk was getting anywhere near the attention he deserves being that he is a gold-medal Olympian and set a record for achieving a world title

[vitali1999]

It is odd to hear all of "Wilder has only beaten bums" line when the obvious part is that very few want to fight him. Not the most aesthetic style, but Wilder doesn't just knock you out, he destroys you. Pov, Ortiz, Parker, & Joshua, even Wlad, do/did everything they can to not step in the ring with him. Forget the sparring stories from his baby days, I am talking 10-12 3 minute rounds. He will catch you. He has excellent recovery abilities, his jab is polished, and he sets traps in a very subtle, almost unseeable fashion. I have seen him fight live & I've seen him spar & as a huge fan of both he & AJ, I'm telling you that Wilder is the diamond in the rough of boxing. All of Hearn's garbage about "realistic" pay outs is nothing more than a blatant and cowardly duck. Wilder KOs AJ inside of 6 rounds when/if they fight.

AJ kos wilder within 2. Easy. But wilder is 🐔 ****. He will never fight AJ and you know it. When it comes time for wilder to fight a non bum, Povetkin, Ortiz, they magically pop. But the unranked bums, Arreola, drummer boy, spilka ect.... None of them popped, jee I wonder why.......

[SugarRaRobinson]

Whites, principally Americans, have an inferiority complex when it comes to boxing. Black athletes have dominated the heavyweight division for years, which has been, and still is, seen by many as the pinnacle in fighting sports. If Wilder was white, there would already be a cult forming around him, no doubt about it. He's too much of genetic freak not to have been. Whites Americans will go crazy for any white fighter that shows the slightest show of promise since they have something to prove.

At the end of the day, it's all tribal. Boxing is very primal and divided among ethnic lines. People out of tribal instinct will always have more of an affinity and sympathy towards those they see as belonging to the same group.

Great Post, filled with unapologetic truth !

They had Jack Johnson fighting till almost 50 so they could finally watch him take a L.

And his fights films were barred from crossing state lines by presidential mandate.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Very different era! Back then, being a white racist boxing fan was pretty much an oxymoron. If there were any white alternatives back then, the same thing would've happened. Leonard would be accused of being a runner, Holyfield would be called a hypejob and a duck for not fighting the designated euro fighter du jour, Tyson would be a bum who only fought tomato cans, etc....

Great post. Green K.

[Elroy The Great]

Dunno, but I wish CW Usyk was getting anywhere near the attention he deserves being that he is a gold-medal Olympian and set a record for achieving a world title

if a person wants to languish in the ''people wont notice me because im...'' bin, oh well.

some people are insecure or reach for reasons why shlt is the way it is.

when wilder accomplishes something of note, he will be given attention.

['b']

I have a feeling you one of those c0on$ who think Whites are perfect. Ethnic bias is real, this isn't racism, that's reality.

No, I even said that.

Whites in the USA have 4x the population of USA blacks.
Mexicans / Hispanics have a much larger population in the USA and Mexico (US border) than blacks

Naturally fighters of these groups will have a larger potential fanbase (More Mexicans would be De La Hoya fans than fans of Mayweather). The point is though it isn't the fault of racism, just the fault of numbers of these groups' respective populations.

It's why Eastern European fighters aren't popular in the west - not because people are racist but because there isn't really a target population for them to appeal to.

Ethnic bias isn't racism in my opinion, although it does suck that it exists - but humans, like animals, are programmed that way.

[MrShakeAndBake]

As Mike Wallace so eloquently put in his 1959 PBS documentary; "It was the hate that hate produced"

So it why is Wilder complaining
then, hate produces hate... Racism produces racism

[KingHippo]

BOOM. /end thread

Lol, how does that disprove my point. Blacks are much less fanatic then whites. A fighter like Wilder is nothing new to them. Whereas to White Americans, he would be like a unicorn. You're delusional if you think he white man could have the physique of Wilder and ko guys like he does without being a star in America. W

[BoxingIsGreat]

Money really has not much to do with it dum dum.

As a matter of fact, if your a black fighter in the U.S. the more u make is usually a barometer for how hated u really are.

Look at Floyd for example, while he's the richest ever, it's because soooooo many white racist haters paid for the opportunity to see him lose.

It's a great example of how racist hate backfired, and made a Black man very rich !

The Truth.