H8Usernames wrote: ↑27 Jun 2021, 17:52
Contendeh wrote: ↑27 Jun 2021, 12:22
How does Fury benefit from white privilege?
What is far more apparent from the Wilder v Fury fights is how difficult it is for many African Americans to acknowledge that an African American was beaten, and soundly, by a white fighter.
The “glove conspiracy” is so fabricated, so based in a fantasy world, it’s hard to explain.
If Wilder is beaten (for arguably the third time, but certainly again), he will most likely be written off by “his community” as a bum (as he largely is now).
Should Wilder win, it will be a vindication of baseless conspiracy theories.
I don’t see that as privilege. It’s pretty much a lose lose for Tyson Fury.
I'm a white guy and I think that some of Wilders theories such as displacing the glove are true. Can I claim to be "black on the inside" because of that?
The displaced glove theory is so idiotic it still irritates me to this day. As a kick boxer, I can remember hearing stories about fighters who wanted their glove down their wrist as possible to increase their reach and score points. It didn't increase their power, it just meant they could touch their opponent easier. I also remember Bas Ruten telling stories about how he used 'bone strikes' when he fought in Pancrase
https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/street ... e-strikes/ which seems far more likely the way Fury used strikes in the Wilder fights than him hitting people with his finger knuckles inside the gloves and purposefully breaking his hands like brain damaged morons such as Wilder and Steve Cunningham suggest. Are strikes like that legal? Well, nobody disputes the first round knockdown from Roy Jones against Calzaghe even though it was with the forearm rather than the fist, do they? If people were talking about the more realistic ways that Fury 'bends the rules' like, he slaps with power, then I might have more time for them. To me, it's obvious what he's doing. Cunningham said something along the lines of, well if you know you're going to break your hand in a fight it doesn't matter because you're so full of adrenalin you won't feel it" which is unbelievably stupid. Didn't Hagler and Hearns go to absolute war to KO each other because Tommy broke his hand and Hagler got cut and neither could fight on much longer?
If Wilder fanboys were saying "Fury heeled Wilder" I'd say yeah, I think you're right. They're not. They're saying he loosened his glove so he could punch with the knuckles on his fingers and break his hands on purpose" and that's beyond stupid. Just hitting somebody with your knuckles in a glove is far more damaging.
The heeling thing I can totally go with, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I DO. So I can see he beat up Wilder with a combination of heels, closed hand punches and slaps. SLAPS. grow up and deal with it. The other theories are beyond stupid.