Tribalism in boxing and Pacquiao

Part of it is that his tribe isn't too visible (especially in Britain) and they aren't terribly loud or obnoxious.

A lot of times hate for a fighter is really hate for his fans. Some Pac fans in the English speaking world will be tribalists from the Philippines, but a lot will be non-tribalist fans who are more pleasant to deal with in general.

 

If you have no tribe in boxing its easy. I root for underdog warriors.
From Pac to Duran to Kassim Ouma etc.

 

Pac the GOAT, yessssssir.

 

This.

 

Well it help when Pac look like a latino dude nah ?

 

Excellent post & in fact Pacquiao is still dealing with it today,

He doesn't show up to conventions or events to garner the crowd or to remind people of himself & his need for the constant push for his ego & exposure to remain around circling others so they have to speak highly of him,

Even in his prime he was never talked about on the prime time talk shows or TV in general & that's when he was taking on the best opponents sometimes fighting up to 3 times a year while never taking any flings with retirements or avoidance of any fighter in that time consistently putting in big numbers without the big Media's help or endorsements either i might add,

He never had to sell out & create phony character changes in order to drive people to view his fights while currently we have multiple LDBC/Race type channels trying their hardest to exclude & ignore him in order to force their narrative with the fighter their in love with, for example Personal Agenda driven channels like "FightHype" who have to constantly remind & or brainwash the general public especially the new generation into thinking someone is the "Best" & by establishing him to be the ultimate measuring stick by conveniently adding his "Name" into various daily videos throughout the long years in hopes to garner & influence people into believing he was or still is the best,

Being Asian, Filipino to be exact means their isn't a whole army of American fighters bringing him up constantly either or name dropping him as even now in his already great status i have regularly seen people especially being American or even UK disrespect or undermine him, that's the reality.

 

I've never "culturally identified" with anyone I support or root for...that would be shallow and inane.

I give no F's as long as they are exciting to watch or real G's (Character and skill)

Filipino, British Pakistani, British Gypsum, Argentinian, American, Congolese, Nigerian, Mexican, Russian, Ukrainian, Eskimo, Chinese. You name it.

I normally don't have a horse in the race so will root for the underdog especially when there is a hypejob trying to build off them

 

Pac ****ed every single public-woman in las vegas.

Twice.

In the meantime his wife and children were at home, waiting.

I give you this kind of gentlemen for free, man, you can keep them all.

 

He has grown man style, no earrings in his ears like wu-tang, a bunch of tattoos but not overboard, give him props for escaping a life full of poverty. He is there for the people, still there in the church even though he's famous. Never trashtalked or tried to. Gave complete submission to his trainers (Freddie Roach) never lived that thug lifestyle albeit he did gamble and have an entourage that did play billiards, drank, and played video games. His biggest allure is that he's the common man; able to walk the walk without having to talk about it. Every mistake, he's been there, cockfighting, calling gays gay, but he repented man and is just a solid dude. He's the fricking Michael Jordan of boxing. I could go on and on I might as well, he plays semi pro b-ball, and he Unites a room together only in ways that Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson could. All around good role model and ambassador for the sport of boxing. His legacy is intact, and I say these things out of respect. People would say we would miss iron Mike when he's gone, but just like iron Mike, he is our little but scarey friend in the ring!