By Alexey Sukachev - One can possibly wonder if patriotism exists only in the U.S. or if this is a common feature for different states all around the world. The answer is obvious – yes, every country has its share of patriots. Actually, the majority of people from any given state is more or less patriotic despite living standards, political or economic issues and the type of government involved.
In boxing the only government, which can be found, is formed of world champions and their trusted (or not so trusted in some cases) representatives (not by various sanctioning bodies as one can probably think). To stay patriotic means to be represented in this virtual board of control, and if your boxing trustees continuously let you down it’s definitely harder to maintain any affection to them. In this case, boxing fans start rooting for foreign stars, which more or less satisfy their boxing views and fickle yet personal standards of pugilistic mastership. That’s why one can find so many Pacquiao/Mayweather/Jones/Lewis/Pavlik/etc fans in every country. In Russia it’s even more than that. Some local boxing aficionados invented a specific term which can be roughly translated into English as “Sovietic pugs” (where the first word is a distorted version of “Soviet”) and describes your most common ex-Soviet fighter with all of his amateurism, lack of determination, excess of apologies and some other bad-looking stuff. Based on your own view/nationality you can enlist almost every person (not excluding K2 Brothers, Kostya Tszyu and some other fighters from the former USSR) here. It sounds weird but proofs can easily be found all around the Ru-net. [Click Here To Read More]
In boxing the only government, which can be found, is formed of world champions and their trusted (or not so trusted in some cases) representatives (not by various sanctioning bodies as one can probably think). To stay patriotic means to be represented in this virtual board of control, and if your boxing trustees continuously let you down it’s definitely harder to maintain any affection to them. In this case, boxing fans start rooting for foreign stars, which more or less satisfy their boxing views and fickle yet personal standards of pugilistic mastership. That’s why one can find so many Pacquiao/Mayweather/Jones/Lewis/Pavlik/etc fans in every country. In Russia it’s even more than that. Some local boxing aficionados invented a specific term which can be roughly translated into English as “Sovietic pugs” (where the first word is a distorted version of “Soviet”) and describes your most common ex-Soviet fighter with all of his amateurism, lack of determination, excess of apologies and some other bad-looking stuff. Based on your own view/nationality you can enlist almost every person (not excluding K2 Brothers, Kostya Tszyu and some other fighters from the former USSR) here. It sounds weird but proofs can easily be found all around the Ru-net. [Click Here To Read More]
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