Notice how Showtime keeps pushing Broner down our throats

lost to Maidana but had balls in the way he didnt quit when he was taking a beating. plus hes only 25.
1 loss doesnt mean anything these days, its what you do after it.
its nice, but undefeated normally means you aint fought the best

 

Whilst that's true the fans who "wanted to see Broner lose" have now seen him lose...there will be fewer fans who "want to see him lose AGAIN" if that makes sense

 

Showtime and Broner are kind of boxed into a corner. Now that Broner's lost, a lot of the fans who just watched to see him lose aren't going to tune in. Nobody thinks that Emmanuel Taylor will have the power to do what Maidana did. Now his people are reduced to dressing him in Gordon Gartrell costumes and insulting Mexican fighters.

I would have tuned in to see him get lit up by Matthysse. Not interested much in another showcase.

 

IMO, you underestimate how powerful 'hate' can be as a motivator.

Once people hate you, they almost never get tired of seeing you lose. If you gave most posters here a choice between seeing a GGG masterclass or watching Amir Khan get KTFO (again), that Khan option would win in a landslide.

Broner will remain popular because he is so polarizing.

 

Adrien Broner = African American Victor Ortiz

:hi::good

 

i hit the mute button before Urkel even begins to talk and go make a sandwich.

 

Broner will be entertaining but will continuously lose to tougher opposition. They will have him fight a few lower ranked guys then a big name and he will lose. Maybe he'll win against the big names 50% of the time. But he is still young though. I don't think he will be a p4p guy in the next few years though.

 

Khan has a chance of winning in big fights. We know Broner is just going to stand flat footed in the middle of the ring eating shots against a good fighter. He gives us no hope that he could actually beat a good fighter.

 

broner is playing the role of the obnoxious black guy...basically playing into the racial stereotypes people have of blacks. this is why he sells more than say, tim bradley or shane mosley or thurman or sean porter. Those guys don't generate enough racial animosity... floyd does it well. ali did it too. it takes a certain type of personality to know the psychology of the people watching the sport, what gets under their skin and how to exploit those racist attitudes. it's a gold mine for guys like broner who overplay it to the point of caricature. I get a kick out of watching him because I know he's gonna also **** a lotta folks off because he'd gonna beat pretty much everybody they put in front of him and frustrate those in the audience looking for him to get humbled.

 

what ali did was as a pioneer of sorts, and took a LOT more balls than Floyd playing the villain, or broner playing a ghetto villain

ali's charisma and character did a lot of good. he stood for a great deal and boxing was just a vessel in the bigger picture

 

Ali wasn't as great a man as everyone portrays him. He was a pawn. Dodging the draft was cowardice. He would have badged a coward in Sparta. I served my country in Iraq even though I felt we had no business being there.

 

in all honesty, I was going to ask you if you were involved in the military until you said it.
you don't understand that ali was a part of something much bigger.

you're taking your experiences and dismissing what ali stood for

 

Not any worse than HBO pushing a football player turned boxer in Seth Mitchell.

 

Maybe the documentary swayed me. I thought what Ali did to Frazier was despicable. I lost all respect for him.

 

ali was ali because he stood up for his principles. He's an american hero and a great symbol of courage, vision and defiance.

but even before that, he was known as gaseous cassius and the louisville lip because he bragged like a professional boxer...that's no different from broner or floyd. he did it to get attention and to feed into the racial fears people have of aggressive black men. If broner was faced with a moral dilemma such as vietnam or staking his black identity in the civil rights movement and he made the right decision, broner would rightfully be respected as a hero too.