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joelouis1234 wrote:[*]I have to say I'm discusted by some of the 'drivel' 'sour grapes' and libellous threads I've seen posted on here about Amir Khan.Box Rec really need to tighten up their act with regards to censoring what's allowed on here and adhering to certain standards of ethics.To allow threads like 'Amir Khan on a par with Hitler' and 'Khan gives half his purse to Colonel Gadaffi' is not only unethical,but also has legal ramifications with regards to libel,defamation of character and incitement to racial hatred which is illegal in the UK.Amir Khan is British,won an Olympic silver medal for Britain at the age of 17 a tremendous feat for a young person and came back from a terrible KO loss by Breidis Prescott to become a world champion.Let's give credit where credit is due.Khan has shown young people what can be achieved by hard work,discipline and perserverance over advesity ie coming back stronger after his K0 loss.Khan also comes across as very humble and respectful when talking about his opponents and generally conducts himself in a very professional manner.Amir Khan deserves to be applauded for what he represents and has achieved,not hated and slandered dare I state the truth because of his Pakistani origins.Boxing is as a part of sport is supposed to promote International goodwill and cultural understanding between people of different nationalities and races,it would be great if the minority of narrow minded people posting this rubbish about Khan would bear this in mind before deciding what threads to post in future.

joelouis1234 wrote:[*]I have to say I'm discusted by some of the 'drivel' 'sour grapes' and libellous threads I've seen posted on here about Amir Khan.Box Rec really need to tighten up their act with regards to censoring what's allowed on here and adhering to certain standards of ethics.To allow threads like 'Amir Khan on a par with Hitler' and 'Khan gives half his purse to Colonel Gadaffi' is not only unethical,but also has legal ramifications with regards to libel,defamation of character and incitement to racial hatred which is illegal in the UK.Amir Khan is British,won an Olympic silver medal for Britain at the age of 17 a tremendous feat for a young person and came back from a terrible KO loss by Breidis Prescott to become a world champion.Let's give credit where credit is due.Khan has shown young people what can be achieved by hard work,discipline and perserverance over advesity ie coming back stronger after his K0 loss.Khan also comes across as very humble and respectful when talking about his opponents and generally conducts himself in a very professional manner.Amir Khan deserves to be applauded for what he represents and has achieved,not hated and slandered dare I state the truth because of his Pakistani origins.Boxing is as a part of sport is supposed to promote International goodwill and cultural understanding between people of different nationalities and races,it would be great if the minority of narrow minded people posting this rubbish about Khan would bear this in mind before deciding what threads to post in future.

simon fox wrote:A thead does not 'mysteriously' vanish; it may have been taken down by a moderator who felt it overstepped the mark; it's not a conspiracy or mystery.

Maybe it's not properly 'funny' but no one in their 'right mind' believes it or gets uptight about it; it is similar to satire really. If I typed that Manny Pacquiao was saving his millions to fly to Mars to repopulate and be a God would you take it as true? Would it make it more true if I were to say that he was taking Floyd Mayweather with him to open his tomato ketchup bottles and put the toothpaste on his toothbrush?

Some things are said in jest. There are some people who are not that keen on how Amir acts and his media personality. I am sure that Khan can live with that and so can you.

King Geedorah wrote:Well, well. Mr Ambassador, with this rant you really are spoiling us.

G0mez wrote:

observer1 wrote:

G0mez wrote:Epic meltdown.

not as bad as what happened to you in the other amir khan thread...

Read it back in a laid back, couldn't give a f*ck stylee and absorb how it was intended : :

mugabi wrote:I agree the racism boxrec has allowed recently is disgusting and has lowered the respect this website used to have.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Just to add my twopenneth, even though it's already been said, the irony of the OP is that those threads were deliberately started to highlight how ridiculous the criticism of Khan is/was after he beat McCloskey.

It is an old fashioned thing called satire.

If you look on BoxRec News, there's an excellent article by Martin Williams about Khan getting an unfair slagging.

This is the best moderated forum as regards boxing. Not perfect but better than the others I know.

oliverfennell wrote:

mugabi wrote:I agree the racism boxrec has allowed recently is disgusting and has lowered the respect this website used to have.

Not only allowed it but even discouraged criticism of it - for example when I pointed out how a certain title-level British professional had written on Facebook about how he wanted to punch out Muslims and throw their children to paedophiles to get raped, and it was deleted. I don't know why or by who, it just vanished, but if it isn't fair comment to criticise publicly-published outbursts of such nature, then I don't know what is.

oliverfennell wrote:

mugabi wrote:I agree the racism boxrec has allowed recently is disgusting and has lowered the respect this website used to have.

Not only allowed it but even discouraged criticism of it - for example when I pointed out how a certain title-level British professional had written on Facebook about how he wanted to punch out Muslims and throw their children to paedophiles to get raped, and it was deleted. I don't know why or by who, it just vanished, but if it isn't fair comment to criticise publicly-published outbursts of such nature, then I don't know what is.

observer1 wrote:

oliverfennell wrote:

mugabi wrote:I agree the racism boxrec has allowed recently is disgusting and has lowered the respect this website used to have.

Not only allowed it but even discouraged criticism of it - for example when I pointed out how a certain title-level British professional had written on Facebook about how he wanted to punch out Muslims and throw their children to paedophiles to get raped, and it was deleted. I don't know why or by who, it just vanished, but if it isn't fair comment to criticise publicly-published outbursts of such nature, then I don't know what is.

What the ..? Whoa who was this?

stujones wrote:Oliver, since your post the fighter in question came on to boxrec and declared it wasn't him and someone accessed his FB. I think it was the correct decision to delete the thread.

I agree with the Mod who deleted your thread - what you had done was perfectly fine and it was in no way your intention - but it transpired to be not a valid account (or he got facebook raped) and as a consequence, thread being deleted was the correct call.

slapbangwhallop wrote:Daniel Herbert must have read the OP before writing his Golden Boy Press Release, sorry I meant Editorial, in an attempt to even the situation up.

gobbles wrote:

slapbangwhallop wrote:Daniel Herbert must have read the OP before writing his Golden Boy Press Release, sorry I meant Editorial, in an attempt to even the situation up.

Because some of the Irish journalists there weren't out of order, were they?

slapbangwhallop wrote:

gobbles wrote:

slapbangwhallop wrote:Daniel Herbert must have read the OP before writing his Golden Boy Press Release, sorry I meant Editorial, in an attempt to even the situation up.

Because some of the Irish journalists there weren't out of order, were they?

What do you mean by "out of order"?

Even if they were T-Bagging the ringcard girls does that mean that the Boxing News editorial should read like it was written by Asif Vali??