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

['b']

Francis ngannou will put a halt to the great white hype!..who's your pick?

Except Stipe isn't hype, he has proven himself against top opposition. Francis has the tools to beat Stipe for sure, but we'll see what happens if it reaches round 2

[SugarRaRobinson]

Exactly! that's why fighters like Tyson, Holyfield, Leonard, Hagler, Mayweather hardly made any money and got no respect, it's racist white people who are to blame.

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 !

['b']

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 hater 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 !

Same for Mcgregor, people hate ****y guys on the top and pay to see them lose.

[SugarRaRobinson]

If he wasn't black he would get even less coverage. Fighting nothing but unranked bums and yelling out bomb squad when you should be yelling out bum squad isn't going to get you a lot of media coverage except from the casual fan who doesn't understand that you are fighting bums, they think you are doing nothing wrong.

PLEASE stop omitting the relevant facts like how Wilder was ready to kick Povetkin's azz in Russia but he got caught trying to cheat too !

[chrisJS]

It may have something to do with the fact he's fought nothing but bums his whole career and has next to no skill.

If he was white or European he'd have no fans.

['b']

PLEASE stop omitting the relevant facts like how Wilder was ready to kick Povetkin's azz in Russia but he got caught trying to cheat too !

His point still stands though - Wilder isn't popular because he has fought only bums - even if the reason is because his opponents cheated and the fight never happened

[vitali1999]

It's because of non stop voluntary defenses. Three years, one title, one mandatory. Look at what Tyson accomplished in 3 years compared to you. Your doing the exact opposite of what Tyson did. Tyson cleaned out the division and wilder is letting Joshua do that, while he fights BUMSQUAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SinderellaMan]

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.

[SugarRaRobinson]

Ali while fighting white boxers used to call them “cracker”, “
honkey” “white devil”. how about those apples ?

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

[KingHippo]

What difference does it make? Both combat sports, both with Americans at the top, both not getting any promotion and both are of different races.

I think it says a lot more than you think.

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.