Old bones Ian wrote:Tye Fields is white??
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Yes. Here he is towering over an opponent.
Old bones Ian wrote:Tye Fields is white??
Your logic is very poor and largely unstructured. Your Kelly Pavlik example is both presumpsory and irrelevant to the question at hand. The white hope thing was in the Johnson era and not since - the only people who talk it up are journalists who take the easy path to an article. I'm not saying race doesn't feature in boxing, it does.....but to pretend there's some conspiracy to find a white heavy champ mthese days is laughable.Shirow wrote:E have they switched to decaf in the office?
Surely you're aware of the holy grail of the Great White Hope. What you're reading about here is more the satisfaction of watching the product of a cynical boxing manager fail rather than the boxer himself.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone on this forum who enjoyed Kelly Pavlik almost getting KO'd by Taylor in their first fight because despite a black boxer dropping the white one the circumstances were completely different. Closer to reversed in fact.
Jaysus with each post it seems your IQ lowers..... They were heavies....who clearly were white...but at this time there was no concerted political movement to find a 'white hope' to beat a black champion....this only happened in the Johnson era.overhand_right wrote:I never realised Jerry Quarry, Gerry Cooney and Tommy Morrison competed in the Jack Johnson era!
Keep on teachin', E...
Are you deluded or just completely misinformed?E wrote: overhand_right - I will say this as nicely as I possibly can; but you are resembling someone swimming against a too-strong tide, but still, against all reasoning and out of pride, refusing to give in. But ultimately you will drown.
ooooh i bet you're happy with your puerile play on words...I bet you're rubbing yourself up in peanut butter and trying to eat yourself.Collins2000 wrote:E, I'm not sure which of your traits I find least amusing. Your arrogance or your ignorance.
However, throw them together and they make a wonderful clown.
overhand_right wrote:E wrote: overhand_right - I will say this as nicely as I possibly can; but you are resembling someone swimming against a too-strong tide, but still, against all reasoning and out of pride, refusing to give in. But ultimately you will drown.
Are you deluded or just completely misinformed?
Go teach Larry Holmes your theories about the white hope myth. He might have a tale or two about the racial hatred he experienced prior to his fight with Gerry Cooney -- or the direct line to Cooneys dressing room from the White House to congratulate Cooney if he were to win. There was no line to Holmes dressing room.
This last sentence is a corker, given that everyone on this thread gets the joke other than you.
E= we all think you're a t-w-a-t.
oh shite you've beaten me...... I am going to descend to crude insults rather than rational discussion..... Ok... so your dead grandmother sucks your dad's tired dick when he's trying to sleep...but he still comes as he's a fvckwit just like his son... enjoy, prickoverhand_right wrote:Are you deluded or just completely misinformed?E wrote: overhand_right - I will say this as nicely as I possibly can; but you are resembling someone swimming against a too-strong tide, but still, against all reasoning and out of pride, refusing to give in. But ultimately you will drown.
Go teach Larry Holmes your theories about the white hope myth. He might have a tale or two about the racial hatred he experienced prior to his fight with Gerry Cooney -- or the direct line to Cooneys dressing room from the White House to congratulate Cooney if he were to win. There was no line to Holmes dressing room.
This last sentence is a corker, given that everyone on this thread gets the joke other than you.
E= we all think you're a t-w-a-t.
Yes but would he beat Wong Wesult?Terry D wrote:We should put all this behind us and get behind the latest big white hope, Sergey Ilakkapunch. He could go far, Germany at the least.
If you can't believe thatE wrote: They were heavies....who clearly were white...but at this time there was no concerted political movement to find a 'white hope' to beat a black champion....this only happened in the Johnson era.
The era of the modern 'white hope' is a myth.....excreted by lazy journalists. I mena look at the facts - the biggest earning heavies of the last 20 years are all black - Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis...... The klits, Valuev, Chagaev, Morrison etc earned considerably less.
To repeat myself - race DOES mean something to some people but is not the sole, overriding factor..... for example Calzaghe has earnt far less per fight than Benn, Eubank, Hamed despite being a superior fighter by most accounts.
E wrote:ooooh i bet you're happy with your puerile play on words...I bet you're rubbing yourself up in peanut butter and trying to eat yourself.Collins2000 wrote:E, I'm not sure which of your traits I find least amusing. Your arrogance or your ignorance.
However, throw them together and they make a wonderful clown.
But to put you straight - my so-called arrogance is born of being brighter than fvckwits like you...and my ignorance? There is none.....ignorance is just a word that idiots like you paint on a person when they cannot actually grasp the essence of their opponent's argument.
Have you decided yet?
Asian heavyweights Enoch? - lemeseeE wrote: And you bitch about white heavies - but I bet you wouldn't say anything about Asian or Oriental heavies who have achieved precisely nothing.....
Please specify exactly what racist comments Larry Holmes made about Cooney or Marciano?E wrote: Oh Larry Holmes good example...... the same multicultural open minded man who made racist comments against Mrciano and Cooney?
Carlos-Wigan wrote:Asian heavyweights Enoch? - lemeseeE wrote: And you bitch about white heavies - but I bet you wouldn't say anything about Asian or Oriental heavies who have achieved precisely nothing.....
Valuev is a Russian with Tartar/Asiatic mix - which would mean he is mixed race
Chaegev is also Tartar (Asian who are direct descendants of Ghengis Khan) and Muslim!
Ibraimaghov is a Chechen (Asian) and a Muslim.
Oleg Maskaev was born in Kazakhstan (which is in - yup Asia)
Because a fighter is Russian does not mean he is a white European - if you look at fighters like Yuri Arbachikov, Kostya Tsyzu,
Vasiliy Jirov - they are obviously of Asian descent.
Itll be interesting to see the rankings for the big 4 now Barrett has had this win. In the heavyweights it seems it doesnt necessarily matter who your fighting, you just have to be active and winning and you'll be ranked pretty well, while he hasnt fought in a while now (I dont think, I havent checked his record in a while) Kali Meehan is a good example of this. I expect Williams will be in some of the rankings too if he beats McDermott convincingly.EddieShredder wrote:Barrett is calling out Haye on boxingtalk.com... (note, G.Leon who runs the site is his "advisor")