Let me make my little rant

[Hype job]

The way you hate one any fighter that has some semblance of melanin in their skin is the way people hate on GGG. Don't you..........find it ironic that the tables are turned?

[Weebler I]

How do you know the demographics of posters? You don't.
You also hate ward but are wlads biggest fan when he's the king of clinching. And since when does fight location matter? Vegas is the boxing capital. People come here to prove themselves, not some shltty city in europe

Everybody knows the "demographic", they're notorious in boxing circles.

Btw, how are you going to knock beautiful historical European cities with cheap trashy Las Vegas?

[Ray*]

I don't get why poster cry when he gets criticise or hated on as well, I always laugh when i see their posts. I see boxers who have accomplish more in a few years gets absolutely smashed by posters on here. So you shouldn't be shocked or offended when someone like GGG gets ragged on.

[Weltschmerz]

About GGG haters/bias and racism in boxing

It’s not unheard of. Just like white America had a massive collective hard-on for Jack Johnson back when the heavyweight championship was the biggest prize in sports (and the sole domain of white-skinned pugilists), once boxing’s most coveted title became the domain of African Americans, prideful black fans learned to be antagonistic to white heavyweight contenders during Muhammad Ali’s reigns (and beyond). One of my earliest boxing memories is of a lady in church going off on Jerry Quarry (her tirade shocked and confused me because of its intensity and because I had no idea she followed boxing – she really wasn’t a fan, she was black and proud and Ali had become a cultural hero by the 1970s). Black boxing fans I knew in the 1980s and ‘90s did not have nice things to say about Gerry Cooney or Tommy Morrison (who I liked and supported, which many of my black friends found annoying). They more I cheered for Morrison, the more they booed his white ass. And, man, when he would get knocked out (which happened, often in brutal fashion) there was a celebration. LOL.

The hate/racial bias for GGG (which is real) seems out of control because of social media. It’s like all of the s__t talk about a fighter that used to be confined to barber shops and locker rooms has been put into a very far-reaching public forum. The backlash against GGG is, in my opinion, a product of his fast rise to prominence (in both the media and the sport), his HBO affiliation/support, and his look/demeanor.

Golovkin, who was unknown to most of the fans who rip him today prior to his HBO debut in September 2012, climbed the middleweight rankings (and eventually the pound-for-pound lists) during a time when the sport’s two most talented African-American boxers Ward and Mayweather were struggling (Ward with his inactivity; Mayweather with general public acceptance). Mayweather and Ward carry the mantle of black pride for a significant number of African-American fans because they are undefeated, dominant champions, and were, at one time, Nos. 1 and 2 in the mythical pound-for-pound rankings. Being a middleweight, Golovkin is a potential opponent for Mayweather, who was the junior middleweight champ, and Ward, the former super middleweight champ. That gets fans talking about potential fights, which sparks arguments when Golovkin fans opine that their man can beat the two best black boxers in the sport. (Plus Mayweather and Ward’s diehard fans are already miffed that GGG is rated ahead of Ward on most P4P lists.) Of course, arguments on social media can easily and quickly turn ugly, and racial epithets are never far behind.

Adding fuel to the GGG hate is the media love for the Kazakhstan-born fighter. He’s the darling of the boxing press (as Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez have discovered). I was looking at BoxingScene.com’s homepage on Tuesday night (about 10:45 p.m. PT) and found NINE headlines with Golovkin’s name in it. Any news about Golovkin, it seems, is fit to post. LOL. This media love and HBO’s usual marketing push for a contract fighter has created an added backlash from GGG haters because they feel like he’s being crammed down their throats.

And finally, although mixed with Asian (and hailing from a country in Central Asia), Golovkin’s skin is white and he’s got a clean-cut look – short hair (sometimes with a part in it), no tattoos. He’s also polite and respectful outside of the ring. He just smiles, offers his sound bites and stays out of the usual mud-slinging between rival fighters, promoters and managers. This drives cretins crazy. (Trust me, I’m an expert on a__hole boxing fans.) They want the fighters they hate to engage with them, sink down to their level. GGG won’t do it, and it pisses a lot of them off. They actually like it when a white-skinned fighter they piss on spews some s__t back, which is one of the reasons Krusher Kovalev isn’t as hated on as much as GGG.

By Doug Fisher, Editor of ******

^^^^^ All of this, in a ****ing nutshell.

[Daddy T]

I have a question, why do people get mad when GGG gets hate?? why do posters act like he is not allowed to be hated on? I have been on this forum for almost 10 years and have seen fighters who have accomplished more be torn apart. So why the surprise when GGG gets slammed?

The same posters who get mad at people for slamming GGG sit on here and slam other fighters left and right. So what is the real issue at hand here? Honestly i just want to see the man in better fights, but i troll certain posters because they praise him like he has an alt resume or accomplishments when he doesnt. But fighters who do have great resumes and accomplishments get slammed and their accomplishments ripped apart.

I knew this would be about Golovkin before I even opened the thread. Why are you so obsessed? What is the issue here?

[Mike D]

I don't get why poster cry when he gets criticise or hated on as well, I always laugh when i see their posts. I see boxers who have accomplish more in a few years gets absolutely smashed by posters on here. So you shouldn't be shocked or offended when someone like GGG gets ragged on.

As I said earlier, it's not the criticism of 3G. The criticism is fair. I do consider myself a Golovkin fan to an extent -- I root for him and enjoy watching him step into the ring -- but at the end of the day I'm a boxing fan first and foremost. I, like most, just wanna see him in with the best competition possible. And if he was to get his ass beat I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Like I said the criticism of his lack of opposition is valid. But the board has been completely taken over by him. Like seemingly damn near 90% of the threads are related to him. The **** is out of control. I think motherf**kers are quitting their jobs just to make threads about this dude.

This is Boxing Scene, not Golovkin Scene.

[stuff jones]

I have a question, why do people get mad when GGG gets hate?? why do posters act like he is not allowed to be hated on? I have been on this forum for almost 10 years and have seen fighters who have accomplished more be torn apart. So why the surprise when GGG gets slammed?

The same posters who get mad at people for slamming GGG sit on here and slam other fighters left and right. So what is the real issue at hand here? Honestly i just want to see the man in better fights, but i troll certain posters because they praise him like he has an alt resume or accomplishments when he doesnt. But fighters who do have great resumes and accomplishments get slammed and their accomplishments ripped apart.

Because a) its almost exclusively from fans of black fighters and b) he's not a wife beater ******* who deserves to be hated on like Mayweather.

Plus most of the hate is irrational.

[Weltschmerz]

I knew this would be about Golovkin before I even opened the thread. Why are you so obsessed? What is the issue here?

He should be obsessed with Kovalev who's a threat to his current hero.

[Mr.Gif]

[Jedi Vader]

And get banned again?

Your black privilege permits you to say "white racists" even if it's not true, but I can't say "black racists" when it is true.

I'll tell you what I think of you to your face when we meet up in Vegas in 2 months time.

How is this allowed???