I like BJS as a boxer as I am sure alot of people do. I also occasionally like him - he can sometimes come across as quite likeable albeit abit of a lad... but THEN he goes and acts like a complete D**khead. I actually thought being up in sheffield he had curbed his behavior but seems lately he has got worse. He does nothing for his image, nothing for the image of his so called community and nothing for boxing.
So I was responding to this: apologies if I've misunderstood your point, could you perhaps clarify it?
How is all of boxing tainted? This has nothing to do with anyone other than the idiots in the video. As for "faked class-based outrage", I'd say the outrage is quite real. I don't see what class has to do with it, unless you mean a traveller/gypsy with apparently very little education is driving around in a Rolls Royce and acting like a ****. Perhaps your anger should be directed at BJS rather than everyone else.
Some people on here have a moral standard that is through the roof when it comes to a fighter they don't quite like. Those same standards don't always apply though
The implication is that the behaviour in this case would be acceptable if it had been a different boxer?
To try and be as brief as possible, wealthy working class men are judged differently by British society. When a footballer buys a house for his mother (as Raheem Sterling did) he is lambasted for being flashy and disregarding the value of money etc. Boxing is often labelled a blood sport which should be banned, and these reactions tend to emerge after a death or serious injury. Football and boxing are two distinct ways working class men can become wealthy and benefit from social mobility. Footballers and boxers tend to have the spotlight of publicity shone upon them most (sports reporting aside) when they transgress unless they buy into the traditional corporate culture, as AJ has - and he is treated like a product not a person. And yet we have a whole tranche of bankers who bankrupted the world 10 years ago, have trillions of dollars thrown back at them (quantitative easing via the public purse) to have another go. I'm sure they are not slow to fritter their personal wealth, which in their case they didn't really earn. I'm also sure they act like complete twats at times too. I think it was this 'stay in your lane' mentality I was later referencing but not when I originally posted. Hence the pun in the headline, lol
You must express anger in a very different way to me. I'm not passive, aggressive at heart, which is why when you asked where my anger was directed, I told you. Had I been angry in the OP, I would have said so.
You said you were pissed off. Isn't that a form of anger? Your anger/pissed offness or whatever you want call it appears to be directed at the way people react rather than the act itself.
