Are African Americans not allowed to be great?

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  • TheUptownKid
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    #91
    Originally posted by Rockin'
    Only with the fans is it an issue. It's funny, as a fighter I never gave a sheet what race you were. And neither did my fellow fighters. Either you fought your ass off and gained respect or you did not. It had nothing to do with race, with the fighters........Rockin'
    Sounds nice until you think about how many of your fav fighters have been talked about like thugs, then ended up in jail. Now one doesn’t lead to the other, but perception can definitely impact reality.

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    • Rockin'
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      #92
      Originally posted by TheUptownKid
      Sounds nice until you think about how many of your fav fighters have been talked about like thugs, then ended up in jail. Now one doesn’t lead to the other, but perception can definitely impact reality.
      Few fighters come from college or an etiquette training. A fighter will generally come from tough times, it is what it is.......Rockin'

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      • The Big Dunn
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        #93
        Originally posted by GhostofDempsey
        Actually, Floyd fans praised his win over JMM as one of his best. Boasted about it for years. So when Loma beat Rigo...who many Floyd fans predicted would school Loma, suddenly it was a bad win over a smaller, older opponent. The circumstances were different. Floyd agreed to a catch weight and then didn't bother to make weight, and refused to be weighed on the day of the fight. Rigo could have had the fight at 126, but played himself by pricing himself out. There was only a seven pound difference between them on fight night.

        When Teo won against Loma, all of the sudden Floyd fans came out of the woodwork to celebrate and ride Teo's ****. That comes from Loma hatred, and more importantly, Eastern-Euro hate. They did the same things with GGG and Kovalev. There is a distinct pattern of bias against EU fighters.
        Posters like you created these ridiculous standards and nuances to denigrate hof black boxers.

        When they are used against Eastern European boxers, you claim it’s hate.

        That simply doesn’t make any sense.

        Loma fought cowardly and lost and got clowned. You guys have spent years creating memes and gifs when prominent black fighters lose. Why are you whining when it’s done to a fighter you like?

        Maybe if you had shown some more respect to guys like Floyd, Roy and bhop rather than constantly denigrating their achievements then the forum would operate differently.

        You and posters like you brought this to the forum. Don’t cry foul when the guys you like are subjected to the crap you created.

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          #94
          Originally posted by The Big Dunn
          Posters like you created these ridiculous standards and nuances to denigrate hof black boxers.
          Bullsheet... The ridiculous standards came from know nothings believing that the know the sport and posting their BELIEFS on the forum. The Ghost of Dempsey knows the sport. Do you?...........Rockin'

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            #95
            Originally posted by Rockin'
            Bullsheet... The ridiculous standards came from know nothings believing that the know the sport and posting their BELIEFS on the forum. The Ghost of Dempsey knows the sport. Do you?...........Rockin'
            Yes people like ghost of Dempsey are who you’re talking about.

            Example, he constantly denigrates Floyd’s resume.

            Cool so posters take all the stuff he’s posted over the years and apply it to Loma and ggg and other Eastern European boxers.

            How is that hate for Eastern Europeans?

            If you put The same microscope on an Eastern European boxer’s resume as guys like him did prominent black boxers, what is the problem?

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            • icha
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              #96
              Originally posted by Larry_Rushmore
              Hispanics root for their boxers

              Eastern euros get praised by whites


              Historically and even now we have more african american champs and yet they get trashed when they win over and over again...
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              When African Americans win there is always so damn excuse..and when they lose this board celebrates like they just won the damn lotto

              but let African Americans do that with a Hispanic or an eastern euro and we are called racist...


              THEY LITERALLY STILL TRY TO ATTACK FLOYD WHEN NONE OF THE FIGHTERS THEY SUPPORT HAVE DONE 1/10TH OF WHAT HE HAS DONE.
              it comes with the territory, once they become relevant both hype and hate grow fast, for all races...
              look at canelo, he is hispanic snd also gets a lot of hate, but thats what you get at certain level and is all good, is all part of the game...
              by the way the hate towards floyd is big part of his success and im sure he embraces that..

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              • STREET CLEANER
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                #97
                Originally posted by Larry_Rushmore
                Hispanics root for their boxers

                Eastern euros get praised by whites


                Historically and even now we have more african american champs and yet they get trashed when they win over and over again...
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                When African Americans win there is always so damn excuse..and when they lose this board celebrates like they just won the damn lotto

                but let African Americans do that with a Hispanic or an eastern euro and we are called racist...


                THEY LITERALLY STILL TRY TO ATTACK FLOYD WHEN NONE OF THE FIGHTERS THEY SUPPORT HAVE DONE 1/10TH OF WHAT HE HAS DONE.
                I expect better from you Larry.

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                • hectari
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                  #98
                  Originally posted by Larry_Rushmore
                  Whining??? who is whining??? im calling out biased and clear racism
                  The majority of recognized legends are blacks, you know a lot of those Pro black boxing channels on youtube were calling manny pacquiao an honorary white man and said pacquiao represented white supremacy lol.

                  Thats when i started laughing.

                  They also said you are racist if you support loamchenko and golovkins

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                  • Inspired
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                    #99
                    'are we not allowed to be great'

                    Eddie Hearn's Mount Rushmore of boxing, his top 4

                    Ali, Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard and Pernell Whittaker


                    no one has hated on eddie hearn more than the american black online boxing community.


                    no one asked for this










                    adrien broner
                    tank davis
                    jermell charlo (jermall seems ok for now)




                    meanwhile you get a guy like anthony sims jr do a few interviews and suddenly british boxing fans LOVE the guy
                    (no idea why he has vanished from boxing right now, i want to see him make a comeback after his loss)

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                    • Marchegiano
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                      #100
                      Dude you're asking a bunch of racists if they're racists.

                      You already know the answer bud. All I can say is my eyes never saw it. The worst and most egregious act I have ever done as a boxing fan was being a fan of Mayweather, Ward, and Wilder. Through them I learned what hate really is.



                      Obviously I am a fan of other fighters too and others all have, had, and will have their detractors but it's nothing even close to what Mayweather, Ward, or Wilder have. I don't get anti-Rock **** like I do anti-Wilder ****.

                      They are nothing like one another, they fight, act, dress, conduct themselves, all very differently. Only two things they have in common are they are black and they are hated.

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