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My dear yanks and fellow English language speakers (you speak the fake version, tho), come in here and let it all out.
No holds barred.
No holds barred.
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You guys are the best but most delusional boxing fans on the planet. I had many of y’all on twitter telling me about khan and brook are gonna beat Canelo and GGG respectively. I was willing to place wagers vs them on it but was not met with the same energy. -
Honestly? I pick on you because you make threads like this. As far as I'm concerned it's an opening for a joke. If you were Ethiopian I'd call you a crybaby too.
The **** you doing coming to America to cry about Americans?
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We don’t we love you guys pause, in fact the only British boxing fan i hated in my lifetime was jimmy savileComment
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Because of you guys love for Hearn and the overrated Joshua.Comment
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Because Americans want to be the only obnoxious ignorant loud mouths...they don’t like the competition.Comment
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Many Americans are hyper critical of everything and don’t have tribal ties to sports teams or individual athletes.
Some of the greatest athletes from this country never really go the respect they deserve from fans in our country. They get criticized in their prime and get thrown away when they’re shot.
Just look at boxing: There isn’t one big American star right now. Mayweather was the last one but only because he was hated and everyone wanted him to lose. I think the last insanely popular and well-liked American boxer was Evander Holyfield. Maybe I’m missing someone but it seems like most of boxing’s biggest American stars are anti-heros people show up to to root against.
The average English fan on this board is the exact opposite of that non-tribal hyper-critical American fan. Their boxers can’t do anything wrong. They’re held up as all-time greats well before they can be judged that way or described as the best in the division despite a lack of proof. They also hold everything against every fighter who isn’t British. Many of you guys on this board love your fighters and hate everyone else and it’s annoying.
Examples:
The average British fan on this board will say Joshua is great and give a million excuses why he lost to Ruiz. In the same breath they’ll criticize Deontay Wilder for almost anything. He has fought fighters better than Ruiz and is still undefeated.
They’ll excuse Dillian Whyte’s and Tyson Fury’s failed drug tests, while they won’t excuse Povetkin, Ortiz or other boxers for their failed drug tests.
Dillian Whyte is held up as the top contender of the division because of everyone he’s fought by these fans yet they trash Deontay Wilder who has fought two boxers who are head and shoulders above everyone Whyte has beaten.
In short: Many Americans hate and criticize everything, even their own. Many Brits on this board will pretend anything from their country is the best thing ever. It’s a natural conflict.Comment
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Tea is for ****sexuals.
Joking, I love the McLaddies.
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To be fair I think it’s probably our fault.
We’re used to competing internationally in team sports and there is that hangover in boxing.
Sport in general for the British in particular is a proxy war even within the Island itself. Scotland are s.hit at everything but any sporting event against the English can evoke memories of ancient battles. Our true sporting rivals being the ones we’ve had literal wars against.
Orwell knew the score yonks ago.
Yanks don’t really have that. They compete against themselvesComment
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