Are you a boxing racist?

[ThaHorseman]

This is one of the biggest problems in America. Everyone wants to be treated equally, yet nobody wants to be treated the same. Its sad to me to see **** like this out there. I'm white, my roommate is Black, my three other best friends are: 2 Black-White mixed, and 1 Mexican. I live in a neighborhood with about 60% Hispanics, 20% Black, 20% White. So I think its safe to say that I have an unbiased view of this. It's sad because it happens all the time. The world will be a better place when people start looking at each other as one race: the human race.

HAHAHA sounds like a line from a really bad movie, but its true.

[FeelTheA-Force]

i always root for the poorest guy. the person thats had the hardest time in life. i hate snobish rich ***ers that box

[Kid Achilles]

I will root for the guy who is most similar to myself in terms of personality. I have to admit, I am biased against someone like Judah who tries to cultivate a "gangsta" personality but someone like Lamon Brewster who is black but also very down to earth or Hasim Rahman who is a funny guy are cool with me.

You get a guy like James Toney who's constantly talking **** about white fighters and of course I'm not gonna like the guy. I'll be honest, I'd love to see Toney get his ass kicked by a white Wladimir Klitschko or Oleg Maskaev because of all the **** he's said about european heavyweights.

In a fight between two fighters I'm unfamiliar with, I'll usually root for the guy with the more aggressive style or the harder puncher. I almost always root for the puncher.

[Banderivets]

Right off the bat if I see that the guy is Ukrainian I will root for him. Because he is my countryman. And it just so happens that 97% of Ukrainians are Slavs.

However if I see a Russian fight an African or an African American you can bet your ass I'll most likely root for the dark guy.


As for superiority of blacks in sports I think it's simply a North American social issue. I never felt that way. I grew up in Europe watching football, and that was never even a topic. If a player was of black colour no one even brought the whole concpet of "colour". Henry of France for example. Me and my friends big fans of him backhome, and I can assure you that his colour was never part of any football converstation.

This whole black vs white thing I only discovered when I immigrated to Canada...and to be honest I was shocked.


Anyway its a dumb topic. Show me a good African Strong Man, now show me a good European sprinter...Different genetics, body types favoring different sports...


Anyway I personaly think its ****ed up when someone roots for someone just cause the way they look.

I just root for my countryman, as long as he/she is Ukrainian I couldnt care if they are black, white, asian or martian.

[Super_Lightweight]

I root for only my Armenian fighters. Everyone else is either an enemy or a potential enemy.

Hell no im not racist, im damn sure nationalistic though, and there is no problem in being proud of who you are and where you come from.

Anyone that dont like it, **** them.

I do enjoy other great fighters and love to watch all fights, but i just watch because i love boxing, not because i want one or the other to win.

I'm tired of your bull****. Why don't you just cut to the chase for once and stop being so vague?

[VanesBoxing]

I'm tired of your bull****. Why don't you just cut to the chase for once and stop being so vague?

WTF, how much more could i cut to the chase??

What is it exactly you dont understand, tell me and I will S P E L L it out for you.

[AllEyesOpen]

Personally speaking, If I know nothing about who's fighting, I tend to root for the underdog, the guy everyone else thinks is gonna get ****ed up, or the guy who seems to be having trouble, I like rooting to see the favorite get KTFO, no race involved for me, as long as your the underdog, you can be Cambodian & I'll root for you.

[butterfly1964]

It's funny how Joe Louis, a "Black Man" that so many people disliked based on his color, and so many people rooted to lose against their fellow "white-man", changed their mind when Joe Louis fought that "****" bastard Max Schmeling.
I think sometimes it breaks down to more than just color

Max Schmeling wasn't a ****.

[GunStar]

Right off the bat if I see that the guy is Ukrainian I will root for him. Because he is my countryman. And it just so happens that 97% of Ukrainians are Slavs.

However if I see a Russian fight an African or an African American you can bet your ass I'll most likely root for the dark guy.


As for superiority of blacks in sports I think it's simply a North American social issue. I never felt that way. I grew up in Europe watching football, and that was never even a topic. If a player was of black colour no one even brought the whole concpet of "colour". Henry of France for example. Me and my friends big fans of him backhome, and I can assure you that his colour was never part of any football converstation.

This whole black vs white thing I only discovered when I immigrated to Canada...and to be honest I was shocked.


Anyway its a dumb topic. Show me a good African Strong Man, now show me a good European sprinter...Different genetics, body types favoring different sports...


Anyway I personaly think its ****ed up when someone roots for someone just cause the way they look.

I just root for my countryman, as long as he/she is Ukrainian I couldnt care if they are black, white, asian or martian.

This is a good post, the only part I disagree with you is the homer part! My sig reads American Pride and I root for American boxers most of the time, but I don't always root for Americans!

Once I'm a big fan of a boxer I don't care if he's fighting my countryman!

[joenypr]

Depends. Im puertorican, i usually root for a puertorican fighter, especially if im chillin with my mexican boyz and its pr vs mexico. It just makes it more interesting. But when i lived in PR, i would always root for whoever is fighting the PR fighter. At the end of the day, its all good, someone has to lose.