Billy Joe Saunders throws a chicken at Wilder in Nando’s

[caldo2025]

BJS is now my favorite fighter. If this wasn’t staged then it’s the best thing I’ve seen in a long time. Especially if that really is Wilder slipping on the chicken grease like he’s in a cartoon. Genius, either way.

[caldo2025]

Wait....I just realized that the chicken thrown may have been racially based and if that’s the case then it’s not really funny. I’m hoping that it just happened to be what Billy Joe had on his plate. Way more funny

[apollo creed]

Peri Peri Chicken for Mr. Wilder rapidly served by chef Billy .

[boybrooks]

All sorted!

[dagilechia]

All sorted!

Wilder's wearing is hilarious and he's obviously drunk and/or stoned

[jamamb]

Wait....I just realized that the chicken thrown may have been racially based and if that’s the case then it’s not really funny. I’m hoping that it just happened to be what Billy Joe had on his plate. Way more funny

why is it racially based. wilder was at a chicken restaurant, is there some unbreakable racist implication in chicken? you know lots of races eat it

lol ppl just so quick to pull the racism card

[gp.]

Wait....I just realized that the chicken thrown may have been racially based and if that’s the case then it’s not really funny. I’m hoping that it just happened to be what Billy Joe had on his plate. Way more funny

What else is he going to be eating at Nandos?

[gp.]

Nando's is posh?

Admittedly, I've never been.

But looking at the video and comparing it to the places I eat at, Nando's appears to be 5 star worthy.

It's one step above KFC. The video is VERY blurry.

[Best Coast]

BJS is now my favorite fighter. If this wasn’t staged then it’s the best thing I’ve seen in a long time. Especially if that really is Wilder slipping on the chicken grease like he’s in a cartoon. Genius, either way.

Wilder's ability to laugh it off as being "good for the promotion" leads me to believe it may have been staged, but like you say, it was genius either way.

But that doesnt appear to be Wilder slipping on the chicken grease because his outfit was black. The guy who slipped on the grease wearing an all-red track suit was not Wilder. (Despite Michael Benson misidentifying him as Wilder in the text below the video.)

Here's the guy in the red track suit standing next to Wilder as they crashed the Fury-Pianeta weigh-in:



I have a hunch the lead-up to Fury-Wilder is going to have LOTS of craziness and could be one of the most entertaining pre-fight promos in a long time!!

[dagilechia]

It's ridiculous how some people see racism literally everywhere

[jamamb]

It's ridiculous how some people see racism literally everywhere

lol i know right

[caldo2025]

It's ridiculous how some people see racism literally everywhere

lol i know right

If you were American or clicked on more than boxing news and Pornhub, you’d realize that a white guy hurling fried chix at an African American is more probable to be an act of racism than not one. If done in America by 2 top athletes, it would cause a huge stir.

I’ll give u 2 a blunt explanation as to why this COULD be misinterpreted as racist. Actually, nah. It’s actually pretty cool that u guys don’t see it as racist so maybe we’re finally advancing so I’m not going to perpetrate it. Forget I said anything.

[jamamb]

they were at a chicken restaurant you snowflake, and how do you even know it was fried chicken lol

your the one with racism on your mind, great job brining it into the mix

[caldo2025]

they were at a chicken restaurant you snowflake, and how do you even know it was fried chicken lol

youre the one with racism on your mind, great job brining it into the mix

No one but you goofy Brits knows what a Nandos is you dope. You think that they are on every corner around the world? Lol. You Brits will eat anything as long as it’s fried. Lol.

Will one American please chime in here and tell these dopes why a white guy whipping fried chicken at an African American could be considered racist?

It’s like throwing Dental Floss at a Brit. Sort of.

[jamamb]

[caldo2025]

Lolol

[candyslim]

This is what happens when the general population isn’t allowed to own / carry guns

[SenorPipino]

they were at a chicken restaurant you snowflake, and how do you even know it was fried chicken lol

youre the one with racism on your mind, great job brining it into the mix

No one but you goofy Brits knows what a Nandos is you dope. You think that they are on every corner around the world? Lol. You Brits will eat anything as long as it’s fried. Lol.

Will one American please chime in here and tell these dopes why a white guy whipping fried chicken at an African American could be considered racist?

It’s like throwing Dental Floss at a Brit. Sort of.

I don't even understand the Brit/dental floss connection.

I suppose if you want to spend the time, you could suspect some racist reason was behind the chicken-throwing chaos caused by a white guy and aimed at a black guy.

But when I learn that Nando's is a chicken place, then it seems pretty innocuous. Apparently shrimp is not available there for throwing.

Of course if Saunders had tossed a watermelon at Wilder, then a lot of alarms might be triggered.

And if the whole thing is strictly a staged promotional stunt, then who really cares?

[candyslim]

The dental floss remark is having a pop about the Brits reputation for having poor teeth. That's an amusing stereotype which plays on Brits being more concerned with the health of their teeth than whether they are all gloss-paint white, and all line up in perfect symetry all neatly gleaming like dentures.

Substance over style one might say, thereby summarizing national psyche differences in microcosm.

[SenorPipino]

The dental floss remark is having a pop about the Brits reputation for having poor teeth. That's an amusing stereotype which plays on Brits being more concerned with the health of their teeth than whether they are all gloss-paint white, and all line up in perfect symetry all neatly gleaming like dentures.

Substance over style one might say, thereby summarizing national psyche differences in microcosm.

Thank you for explaining this UK dental mystery for me.

I'll have to start looking closer at the teeth of British fighters to see if there's any truth to the stereotype.

[Best Coast]

BOTTOM LINE: If Deontay is cool with it and can laugh off the chicken-throwing as part of the promotion then it doesnt matter WHOEVER else might call it "racist", since HE was the "target"...

[Ilya Muromets]

Boxing morphs into WWE "sports entertainment" wrestling.

[gilgamesh]

BOTTOM LINE: If Deontay is cool with it and can laugh off the chicken-throwing as part of the promotion then it doesnt matter WHOEVER else might call it "racist", since HE was the "target"...

If they're just gonna shake hands, and be all buddy-buddy a week later. What was the point of it all in the first place though?

I mean they couldn't fight each other anyway so was the point just to grab a ridiculous headline, and make more people interested in who Deontay Wilder is by pulling some sort of jackass stunt?

[candyslim]

The dental floss remark is having a pop about the Brits reputation for having poor teeth. That's an amusing stereotype which plays on Brits being more concerned with the health of their teeth than whether they are all gloss-paint white, and all line up in perfect symetry all neatly gleaming like dentures.

Substance over style one might say, thereby summarizing national psyche differences in microcosm.

Thank you for explaining this UK dental mystery for me.

I'll have to start looking closer at the teeth of British fighters to see if there's any truth to the stereotype.

Anything to help Pip. The teeth whitening and straightening thing does seem to be making inroads into the UK as do most things American eventually. Nowadays we even get "trick or f*cking treat FFS"

[SenorPipino]

BOTTOM LINE: If Deontay is cool with it and can laugh off the chicken-throwing as part of the promotion then it doesnt matter WHOEVER else might call it "racist", since HE was the "target"...

If they're just gonna shake hands, and be all buddy-buddy a week later. What was the point of it all in the first place though?

I mean they couldn't fight each other anyway so was the point just to grab a ridiculous headline, and make more people interested in who Deontay Wilder is by pulling some sort of jackass stunt?

Most of the outrageous stuff that goes on outside the ring in boxing is a "jackass stunt."

Those kind of things don't happen in the real world. Unless the real world is the WWE.