I was sort of young when Floyd came up so I didn't witness the insanity around forums like this, but I'm starting to see what some of the racialized YouTube channels are talking about. (Although i think they generally make **** content)
This kid is getting a lot of hate for no reason at all. And he's knocking everybody out while being fairly respectable. He's also been avoided by the so called "top guys" for at least two years now b/c they know they have little chance to beat him.
I don't like playing the race card but I checked the likes/laughs/frowns on a few Spence articles and almost every single negative impression came from either a Latino or a European fan (this assumption is based on their profile names). That was very telling to me.
I believe that two things are at work here: (1) there's a fairly large portion of Latino fans that are TopRank/Bob Arum/GBP groupies and support whatever fighter they think is in that camp while religiously arguing against Al Haymon guys; and (2) some people are truly just racist/nationalist and that bias leads them to making themselves sound and look ******
You'd think they'd stop and wonder why all these writers and boxers are so deferential to this kid lol obviously they know what's up.
He's in the p4p top 10 according to all credible publications for a reason lol (Ring #7, ESPN #5, and TBRB #10)
This kid is getting a lot of hate for no reason at all. And he's knocking everybody out while being fairly respectable. He's also been avoided by the so called "top guys" for at least two years now b/c they know they have little chance to beat him.
I don't like playing the race card but I checked the likes/laughs/frowns on a few Spence articles and almost every single negative impression came from either a Latino or a European fan (this assumption is based on their profile names). That was very telling to me.
I believe that two things are at work here: (1) there's a fairly large portion of Latino fans that are TopRank/Bob Arum/GBP groupies and support whatever fighter they think is in that camp while religiously arguing against Al Haymon guys; and (2) some people are truly just racist/nationalist and that bias leads them to making themselves sound and look ******
You'd think they'd stop and wonder why all these writers and boxers are so deferential to this kid lol obviously they know what's up.
He's in the p4p top 10 according to all credible publications for a reason lol (Ring #7, ESPN #5, and TBRB #10)
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