Whos paying for Khan V Peterson?

I bet I am smarter than you

 

No. I am not a racist. If Amir was white I would still support him. I am not a fan of Hatton, the man or the fighter. His race has nothing to do with it ....but he was / is a drug addict/ alcoholic , why would I want to support someone like that?? I think he is highly over rated in his fighting ability in the UK. His ideals and culture are far removed from my own. Being British is not enough for me, the majority of Brit's think Asian's are P@ki's anyway. So whats wrong if we open support one of our own? lol

 

I'd pay to watch Khan if it was a more challenging or interesting opponent, but i guess I'm not the only one who doesn't really care much for Patterson.

 

You tied your support for Khan to race in your original post, and did so again in the closing line of this post.

In my earlier post, I referred to supporting Hatton in the past tense (and it was you who raised Hatton, in your original post, hence my continuing of the comparison) as I was talking about supporting him through his fighting career, as you were in your original post - so the drugs/alcohol angle is not relevant to an explanation of your comparitive support, you are using that as a smokescreen to cloud analysis of the opinions you have expressed.

Generalizing the view of 'the majority of Brits' further suggests that you are the one drawing race into this, you seem to have a chip on your shoulder, which is a shame. If you keep drawing a distinction between white Brits and Asian Brits, what is anyone to think other than that you have an issue over race?

Anyway, we have each of us said our piece, and it seems that neither of us has made a dent in the other's belief that we have the right of it, but in light of your latest, contradictory post, I stand wholeheartedly behind my response of earlier today.

Don't tar the population at large with one brush, otherwise you risk coming off as the prejudiced one.

 

****ing hell, most countries support THEIR fighter because of their race. The Mexican's are obviously going to support the Mexican fighter. The Filipino is obviously going to support the Filipino fighter.

This isn't exactly a new thing now, is it? When you see morons saying 80% of Amir's fans are Asian. Well no ****ing ****, it's not exactly a surprise or anything new. This is in every sport and to say race isn't part of why a certain country is behind a fighter, is just stupid.

Am I getting something wrong here?

 

Yep...the part where you support a fighter due to their race

 

I doubt i will stay up for it.

 

So you're saying all those Mexican's/Filipino's/Puerto Rican's/Asian's that come out to support their fighters are in the wrong?

Geez, how can anyone say that Race is not a crucial play is ANY Sport. Naturally, you support your countries sportsman. He's from your country. It doesn't mean you have to, but many do. Same in Football matches, same in Cricket matches, same in Boxing matches and any other freakin' Sport.

Can't believe something like this is even being questioned. It's ****ing common sense.

 

Yes, i do think its wrong. I live in a multicultural society and have friends of all races. I think favouring someone simply because they share tbe same country of origin as me and religion is ****in stupid.

 

Three countries.

One race.

 

I don't, personally. I don't see the harm in supporting a Sportsman who shares the same race as myself.

We just don't live in a World like that, I'm afraid.

 

I've paid for most of the recent Khan fights but I think I'll give this one a miss. Peterson doesn't interest me in the slightest.

 

@ the simon templer & kashamiri discussion....

i dont think kashamiri is being racist, just stating a fact....people tend to support there own...Mexicans root for mexicans, puerto ricans root for ricans & in Khan's case he has an Extra market of Asian's & Muslim's supporting him.

Kashamiri's 1st post was true but went off the rail's a bit when he was talking about Hatton.

what if Wales play Nigeria at a football friendly in Mexico? ...and the locals dont come out & watch......Does that mean's they're racist?

 

Bearing in mind how horrific his demographic is at sports, I'm not surprised he's going ga-ga for "one of his own". I don't think it's racist but honest when he's giving you his reasons.
I much prefer someone coming straight out with it than making up BS about why they like/dislike a fighter.

 

I obviously see what you are saying, and agree with many of the recent posts on this, but for me the underlying analogy is flawed. To take your example, of course I would understand the local Mexicans not coming out in enormous numbers. But this discussion centred on two British fighters having their support compared on grounds of race. To me, Hatton is from Manchester, Khan is from Bolton. They're British fighters who have both had world title success, I supported Hatton through his career and support Khan now.

I am not saying that anyone on here is racist per se, across the board, but I was calling him on the distinction he drew between support for Hatton and support for Khan on grounds of race, which is an attitude I find harmful and missing the big picture. Maybe we need a Martian invasion from outer space to show us all it's really all just petty semantics.

Anyway, we have both said our piece, some will agree with me, some with the opposing view - we can both move forwards happy in our own minds that we are right!