Comments Thread For: Peterson: Black Fighters Get Little Support From Black Fans

[brick wall]

interesting stat.

i'm black.

i have at least 8-10 black boxing fans that i keep in constant communication with. funny thing is, only two of them like mayweather. the rest are pac or neutral fans.

so i guess you need to widen your lens of perception a bit.

i'm talking about the ones that i know are blacks...you can see them in peds/ost threads.

[Michael Hall]

i'm talking about the ones that i know are blacks...you can see them in peds/ost threads.

well you shouldn't generalize if you're only specifically talking about the so called african americans that post in ped/ost hreads.

its highly insulting to black fight fans such as myself who has shelled out thousands of dollars over the years to see fighters of all races box (tito, bhop, floyd, morales, barrera, jmm, pacman, dlh, etc...).

[ox805er]

Paul Williams is exactly what you described. He fought the tough fights, he worked his way up the ranks, he's not loud and flashy and he's an offense first kind of guy.

Yet, he still had no FANBASE.

I'm telling you it's more about economics than anything else.

paul williams could of been great, after the close win vs margarito, but that's if quintana would have not exposed him.. cause look at williams/quintana 1.. it was the blueprint to someone with more power to lay him out the way he was laid out.. and what better way to lose your fanbase than getting KO'd.. His best win is margarito, cintron took a dive, martinez was jobbed.. and quintana 2 was far from unexpected.. winky was old..

[brick wall]

So black fans beat their wives (I MEAN BABY MAMAS) and go to jail to? Do they also make it rain like floyd @ the club with fake hundred hundred dalla bills yaaaaalll....

Your ******ed.

lol stfu moron...how did that run to your head based on what i posted? did i mention about floyd's domestic violence? i was talking about floyd the boxer not the baby mama slapping floyd or the guard face poking floyd.

[brick wall]

well you shouldn't generalize if you're only specifically talking about the so called african americans that post in ped/ost hreads.

its highly insulting to black fight fans such as myself who has shelled out thousands of dollars over the years to see fighters of all races box (tito, bhop, floyd, morales, barrera, jmm, pacman, dlh, etc...).

well you can exempt yourself if you want. why do you dislike floyd if i may ask?

[JoeDaWg]

you're supposed to rely on support for national heritage, NOT racial . . . mexicans don't distinguish between black and white. look at mexican and PR - they have people who are white as can be, to basically black! they don't distinguish, why should america?

So true, we're never gonna get anywhere in this country until people start looking at themselves first as americans and second as a member of a particular race. It's really sad, we live in the greatest country in the world and we can't all get together and just get passed all this racial bull****. If people only knew how lucky they are to live in such a country maybe it would change. I've travel the world pretty well and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, u really don't understand how lucky u are until u see how ****ed up the rest of the world is.

[King Ju-Ju]

HAHA...yah...he kinda of is but he tells it how it is...

Against Tito: Fak puerto rico, USA!!! (Throws little puerto rican flags to the floor)

To Calzage: I will never let a white boy beat me!

and their is others_____________----------------

U put haha, do u find that stuff ammusing???

[anthonysoprano]

A permanent statement on race and support in boxing that will be forever permanently etched in my mind was when I went to Las Vegas for the Mayweather-Hatton fight... The weigh in specifically struck me as an indictment like none other as it relates to African American support of PBF. Ricky Hatton, of Manchester England has the support of an entire nation that flew over an entire ocean to PACK the MGM Grand to the point they had to close off the weigh in an hour early because they had reached capacity... Floyd's support that day, in the city in which HE RESIDES, was a class of about 2 dozen 10 year olds who's teacher brought them to the weigh in to support him for charitable work he had done at the school. It was an embarassing indictment on how little support Floyd and African American fighters garner, even as the pound for pound best fighter in the world - I will never forget that day

[Kagami Taiga]

So true, we're never gonna get anywhere in this country until people start looking at themselves first as americans and second as a member of a particular race. It's really sad, we live in the greatest country in the world and we can't all get together and just get passed all this racial bull****. If people only knew how lucky they are to live in such a country maybe it would change. I've travel the world pretty well and I can say without a shadow of a doubt, u really don't understand how lucky u are until u see how ****ed up the rest of the world is.

im tired of ppl with this picture perfect ideal world ish. where are u idiots when the mexicans and the puerto ricans are arguing over the greatness of their fighters?? nowhere to be found. whenever someone mentions the proverbial "black fighter", then its u shouldnt care about race, blah blah blah. well guess what, in america race still matters. only a fool would be ignorant to say otherwise.

**** an example of how much it matters Barack ***** is considered black. Is he black, not really no...was he raised in a black household, not really no. so why the hell do majority of Americans consider him black???

[studentofthegam]

Can black fighters just STFU with the black thing? Just fight.. you never heard **** like this from the fighters from the 80's and 90's why? Cause they didn't talk so much ****

You didnt hear it because they had more support.

Even ali didn't get support from black america on a national level. There hasn't been a personification of a truly great black role model in boxing since joe louis

That my friend is a huge stretch. There's been SRL, Holyfield, Hearns, Hagler and some others who weren't "thugs" or "gangsta" and did great things in their communities. Joe Louis was loved because he was considered safe by white America and what happened when he couldnt fill a stadium anymore? Throw dirt on this ******.

i don't know about black communities in general but based on boxingsene community and other boxing forums, 99% of black posters are floyd fans...and majority of them will most likely defend floyd when somebody says something negative about floyd.

I dont believe thats true simply because a lot of black people I know personally are on the Pacquiao bandwagon.

I love to hear white people talking about "race isnt an issue" and the strange thing is it isnt for YOU. If you pay close attention to the world you live in and try to wear those shoes a minute then your views will change. I cant defend all black people either because over the years we as a whole stopped trying to equal out the playing field and instead just wanted to fit in and get our little piece. As far as boxing goes race will always be a part. I like Peterson pray for a day black people support their own in the sport again. Every other race goes all out even defending their "so,so" fighters. Stop idlizing these rappers who arent even real. Boxing is the best reality TV.