********, always obsessed with the color of people's skin.
Odd how people always play the race game in boxing, when in fact boxing is the only sport that has been integrated almost from day 1. While football and baseball were still keeping blacks from playing, Boxing had a black heavyweight champion in Jack Johnson. Boxing has been all-inclusive as a sport for as long as it has been a sport. The race game doesn't fly with boxing, the way it can in other sports. Boxing has always had an abundance of white and black fighters, and hispanic as well...and that is true even today (although Europe-Russia tend to provide more of the white boxers than the U.S. now).
Jackson should be talking about Top Rank, not Pacquiao. Bob Arum has only been concerned with hispanic fighters for some time now, and even managed to dig up a hispanic middleweight to fight Pavlik. Arum and King both marginalized boxing to the point of driving away many casual fans. Arum in particular has made no secret that he pretty much only cares about hispanic boxers at this point, at the expense of everyone else.
In Pacquiao's previous weight classes, all the best matchups were against tough Mexican boxers. The Marquez, Barrera, Morales, those were the big money fights at the time...that weight class didn't have many 'big money name' black boxers. Mayweather was too heavy back then, and still is currently (even at 147lbs, Mayweather would be way too big and fast for Pac), Nate unfortunately lacks the ppv buy power at this point in Pacquiao's career, when he will be only looking for the super paydays.
I can't imagine HBO coughing up millions for Pacquiao to fight Campbell on their channel for free, the way they paid Floyd Mayweather $2.75 million to pound faded Sharmba Mitchell.
Odd how people always play the race game in boxing, when in fact boxing is the only sport that has been integrated almost from day 1. While football and baseball were still keeping blacks from playing, Boxing had a black heavyweight champion in Jack Johnson. Boxing has been all-inclusive as a sport for as long as it has been a sport. The race game doesn't fly with boxing, the way it can in other sports. Boxing has always had an abundance of white and black fighters, and hispanic as well...and that is true even today (although Europe-Russia tend to provide more of the white boxers than the U.S. now).
Jackson should be talking about Top Rank, not Pacquiao. Bob Arum has only been concerned with hispanic fighters for some time now, and even managed to dig up a hispanic middleweight to fight Pavlik. Arum and King both marginalized boxing to the point of driving away many casual fans. Arum in particular has made no secret that he pretty much only cares about hispanic boxers at this point, at the expense of everyone else.
In Pacquiao's previous weight classes, all the best matchups were against tough Mexican boxers. The Marquez, Barrera, Morales, those were the big money fights at the time...that weight class didn't have many 'big money name' black boxers. Mayweather was too heavy back then, and still is currently (even at 147lbs, Mayweather would be way too big and fast for Pac), Nate unfortunately lacks the ppv buy power at this point in Pacquiao's career, when he will be only looking for the super paydays.
I can't imagine HBO coughing up millions for Pacquiao to fight Campbell on their channel for free, the way they paid Floyd Mayweather $2.75 million to pound faded Sharmba Mitchell.
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