Comments Thread For: Teofimo Lopez Rails Against ESPN Commentators, Accuses Top Rank of Preferring Black Fighters

[shawnkemp804]

I'm still not getting it. What is racist about what Lopez said? If you think about it, he's accusing ESPN/TR to be racist towards Latinos and they're favoring blacks.

Don't PBC fighters like Spence say the same like TR favoring Latinos over blacks? Crawford even sued Arum.

This is confusing.

The last time I checked this country wasn't Mexico or Puerto Rico. It is like me a black person going to China and complaining that China favors Chinese people over me.

[joseph5620]

I'm still not getting it. What is racist about what Lopez said? If you think about it, he's accusing ESPN/TR to be racist towards Latinos and they're favoring blacks.

Don't PBC fighters like Spence say the same like TR favoring Latinos over blacks? Crawford even sued Arum.

This is confusing.

The difference is that Spence and Crawford said it in an intelligent way. Teofimo did not. Also, Spence was referring to Golden Boy I believe.

There is absolutely nothing to suggest Top Rank favors black fighters. All you have to do is look at their roster to know that's absurd.

[Brutus1]

Teo was a fighter I was excited about, but he became a perfect example of someone who got blinded by their own ego. He wouldn't have lost the fights he did if he had some humility. He hasn't been anything to write home about since the Loma fight and he has sadly been disappointing.

I hope this pompous twat gets knocked out so that he can come back to earth.

He could have been an exciting star to keep your eyes on. Now he is neither exciting to hear about, nor is he exciting to watch.
He squandered that Lomachenko win. His journey to stardom had only started, but he was acting as if he had already arrived and behaved like a complete diva.

[Lance98]

Black fighters like haney and shakur overcame the odds and put themselves out there. This is nothing but a racist rant that is unnecessary and ******. Ward and bradley did not show any favouritism and gave credit where it is due, and if anything joe tessitore was the one who was constantly undermining black fighters like haney, and no one said anything about that because everyone here likes what he did. No one said anything about HBO's jim lampley disrespecting black fighters like mayweather when mayweather was with HBO.

The fact is that many dumb casuals don't know **** about boxing and love to get behind their hype jobs who were not blacks, and when the hype jobs have to face a talented black fighter, they post every negative thing about the black fighter. This has been going on for many years, so stop acting and face the facts. The jig is up. Many people love to be racists, but don't want that label attached to them.

[joseph5620]

Black fighters like haney and shakur overcame the odds and put themselves out there. This is nothing but a racist rant that is unnecessary and ******. Ward and bradley did not show any favouritism and gave credit where it is due, and if anything joe tessitore was the one who was constantly undermining black fighters like haney, and no one said anything about that because everyone here likes what he did. No one said anything about HBO's jim lampley disrespecting black fighters like mayweather when mayweather was with HBO.

The fact is that many dumb casuals don't know **** about boxing and love to get behind their hype jobs who were not blacks, and when the hype jobs have to face a talented black fighter, they post every negative thing about the black fighter. This has been going on for many years, so stop acting and face the facts. The jig is up. Many people love to be racists, but don't want that label attached to them.

Absolutely. Its funny how that works.

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ESPN/Bradley/Ward do suck and are terribly biased but Lopez is a nut job and an imbecile for these statements.

[Dakuwaqa]

Teofimo is a sensitive oddball

[Hotsauce91]

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[Combat Talk Radio]

No one said anything about HBO's jim lampley disrespecting black fighters like mayweather when mayweather was with HBO.

That's because Larry Merchant was holding down that job for years.

Larry Merchant was dismissive of Floyd on commentary for MULTIPLE fights, despite personally witnessing him decimate fighter after fighter - and after the Ortiz fight, Floyd had enough.

Even Manny Steward was dismissive of Floyd - I remember clearly Steward making the outrageous claim that Sharmba Mitchell would walk through Floyd.

HBO did not have that man's back. They just took his checks.

[just the facts]

Spoken like a true *** pro black racist.

will charlos "melanin" win against Benavidez? Cuz he sure acts like it won't.lol

that Melanin sure does make them act scared rehydration clause, ring size, ducking, refs.

you stay "proud" tho. Lol

Dude, you should never, under any circumstances EVER call someone a racist. Again, EVER.