Why is Canelo still not a household name? He`s like the Mayweather/Pacquiao of the current era.

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  1. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Most people where I live in the UK don`t know who Canelo is, why are boxers less known than in previous decades?
     
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  2. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Clenelo doesn't have a story to sell aside from being Mexican but looking white.
     
  3. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    White Mexicans (Spanish: Mexicanos blancos) are Mexicans who are considered white, typically due to being of European or other Western Eurasian descent. While the Mexican government does conduct ethnic censuses in which a Mexican has the option of identifying as "White" the results obtained from these censuses are not published. What Mexico's government publishes instead is the percentage of "light-skinned Mexicans" there are in the country, with it being 47% in 2010 and 49% in 2017. Due to its less directly racial undertones, the term "Light-skinned Mexican" has been favored by the government and media outlets over "White Mexican" as the go-to choice to refer to the segment of Mexico's population who possess European physical traits when discussing different ethno-racial dynamics in Mexico's society. Nonetheless, sometimes "White Mexican" is used.
     
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  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Europeans began arriving in what is present day Mexico during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. While during the colonial period most European immigration was Spanish, in the 19th and 20th centuries large waves of European and European-derived populations from North and South America did immigrate to the country. According to 20th and 21st century academics, large scale intermixing between the European immigrants and the native Indigenous peoples would produce a Mestizo group which would become the overwhelming majority of Mexico's population by the time of the Mexican Revolution. However, according to church and censal registers from the colonial times, the majority of Spanish men married with Spanish women. Said registers also put in question other narratives held by contemporary academics, such as European immigrants who arrived to Mexico being almost exclusively men or that "pure Spanish" people were all part of a small powerful elite, as Spaniards were often the most numerous ethnic group in the colonial cities and there were menial workers and people in poverty who were of complete Spanish origin.
     
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  5. JOKER

    JOKER Froat rike butterfry, sting rike MFER! banned Full Member

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    Clenelo doesn't have a story to sell aside from being Mexican but looking white.
     
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  6. WhataRock

    WhataRock VIP Member Full Member

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    Interesting stuff Mark.
     
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  7. HellSpawn86

    HellSpawn86 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Because he doesn't do interviews in mainstream media or speak English as well as Mayweather or Pac.
     
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  8. Hanz Cholo

    Hanz Cholo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    That is Crazy Mark,
    considering he has bashed every undefeated Brit
    in his weight class (& a few defeated outside of it) across the way.

    Maybe if he gives the likes of Eubank Jr. A good thrashing it will boost his PI.
     
  9. covetousjuice

    covetousjuice Putin did nothing wrong Full Member

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    He looks white because he's a ginger, not because he's fully European -- his mother looks distinctly nonwhite. Ginger genes are extremely dominant, as exemplified by Blake Griffin, Rashida Jones (more strawberry blonde than ginger, but whatever), and those famous black/white biracial twins.
     
  10. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    He doesn't speak English, doesn't bible thump, doesn't literally throw money at a camera, and isn't the most famous individual his nation has produced. Also neither Floyd nor Manny were a fraction as known as they became until they beat Oscar and shortly after danced around each others' name for years.
     
  11. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    None of those British fighters were known to average sports fan in the UK.
     
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  12. Hanz Cholo

    Hanz Cholo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ahh ok.
    Well then I suppose that answers that.

    do they know Amir Khan?

    how about kell brook or GGG?
     
  13. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    With or without Oscar, both Pac and Floyd would have became mainstream.

    You don’t go on a streak like that and not capture people’s imagination.
     
  14. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie banned Full Member

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    People are making too big a deal of his ginger hair and pale skin.
     
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  15. lone star

    lone star Active Member Full Member

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    Nothing to do about him not speaking English or being a ginge. Pay per view. Blame it on that. Terrestrial tv you watched Ali, Hagler, all of em. Got to know them whether you was a fight fan or not. Now you’ve got to pay just to see a ****ing exhibition.
     
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