Chubby Grumpy Munchkin Chocolatito Seems To Have A Hankering To Be KTFO Again.

I get where your coming from but its not true. The guys don't give a **** about the names. The name has nothing to do with it...the name is more akin to a stage name, one of many different names he will have throughout his boxing life as well multiple names and nicknames he will interchange in his personal life. Is the Rock really called the Rock? His Thai ID card doesn't change. It comes out of the tradition of taking your gym's name, 99% of the guys that you know as boxers had a gym name before a sponsor's name. Its a badge of honour for some, a source of pride. It's no different to joining the monkhood and receiving your Pali name. Anyway I went into the name thing heavily in IBs real Thai names thread.

The truth is the deference to their handlers comes out of an ingrained cultural class system and blatant racism. Traditionally over the last century the only people in Thailand that have the money and hence the power outside the Royal family are the Thai Chinese. immigrant merchants from over a century ago who only intergrated where and when it suited them. All fighters are rural Thais and ethnically different, mostly from Issan and with farming backgrounds and desperately poor. No match for the rich and overly educated yet surprisingly small minded merchant Thai Chinese. The fight business in Thailand is a well oiled machine run by the same small group for years who are all Thai Chinese, as you said it is a meat market.

The Thai Chinese having 99% of the wealth yet being a very small % of the population have taken over pretty much every area of society and hence wield enormous power, not just in Thailand but the whole region. They have managed over time to brainwash the country into believing their way is superior and the indigenous Thai culture is some what simple and base. That darker rural people are some how uglier and more inferior to the lighter more "sophisticated" and "intelligent" urban Thai Chinese. The open arrogance is visible on a daily basis in the media and all around you in everyday life. Opportunity is what your average Thai craves, but the Thai Chinese with all the opportunity in the world have been terrible at sharing it. As a boxer you tow the line or you get thrown back on the scrap heap.

 

Roman might be the best fighter of the last decade. He can still make some noise despite obviously being too short for 115+ and getting old with tons of wars to boot now.

 

Three reasons I have disliked RG (of course he's a ****ing beast in the ring and like studying his skills)

After that HBO segment where RG declined some poor guy lol. That made me dislike him a lil, his response made him seem fake.

"Lil drama show" had to be the absolute cheesiest nickname ever.

Seems like HBO picked RG up just because he was close to Marciano/mayweathers record.

 

Dude, did he **** your wife or something? Where's all the hate for Chocolatito coming from? Rigondeaux was a sucker punching piece of ****, so I got that, but Gonzalez has always struck me as a nice guy.

Anyway, I'd love to see a third fight between these two. The first was sensational. We could have the makings of something historic like Zale-Graziano, Pacquiao-Marquez, Pep-Saddler, or Vazquez Marquez. I'd like to see everyone rematch their toughest opponents two or three times like they did in the old days. If Gonzalez looks good against Conception and he hasn't just fallen off a cliff, then I want to see him keep going and tangling with Estrada and Rungvisai.

Chunklatito is funny doe.

 

I want to be Knockout P Freshmart.