Deontay Wilder: I could legally kill Tyson Fury

No, I'm not overlooking his distasteful diatribe. This is the second time you have massaged my words to meet your limited understanding of me and my belief system.

Your standards are unique to you and if you pride yourself on them then more power to you brother.

 

I think some context is important here. Throughout boxing history fighters have made plenty of vulgar, inflammatory statements that are meant to create hype and are not meant to be taken literally. Mike Tyson once said he wanted to eat Lennox Lewis children, for example. Lennox at the time didn't even have children. Tyson was just going off the cuff there trying to sound as brutal and as barbaric as possible.

The famous rallying cry for Muhammad Ali when he fought Foreman in Africa was "Ali, bomaye", which translates to "Ali, kill em". Did that mean that fans wanted Ali to literally kill Foreman? Of course it's understand that it was just a rallying cry to root Ali on to victory.

So with Wilder, he's trying to act brash and make blatantly extreme over the top statements about how bad he's going to beat Fury. Do these outbursts come off harsh and uncouth? Absolutely. But he can get away with it because it's understood that it's not meant to be taken literally. I don't think Wilder does himself any favors though by making these kinds of statements. Not only that but his delivery of these extreme threats feels forced when he tries to talk tough.

I get where you're coming from though with just taking what he's saying at face value. It's way over the top but he gets away with it, no one's ever gonna call him out on it since it's just all chalked up to part of trash talking theater.

 

He's trying to promote the fight, calm down everybody.

 

His not trying to promote the fight mate, he did the interview on an obscure youtube channel that is basically only interested in race based boxing coverage and because they feed his delusions he went on there.
If he wanted to promote the fight he would have been interviewed by a reputable outlet but they might have asked him questions rather than be mindless cheerleaders

 

Well I think there's something to be said for the fact that the African nations didn't have a set idea of what kind of country they wanted when they gained independence. Ireland, America, Canada and such all fought wars to free themselves with a firm end goal in mind, to create constitutional republics with a strong national identity. They also maintained strong ties to UK economically, which allowed them to engage in the biggest trade market in the world at the time. Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, etc. were kinda just told "you're free now" and were left twiddling their thumbs on what kind of government to form or how to establish infrastructure etc. In fairness to the British empire, their colonies tended to perform better than those which were owned by their European competitors.
Africans definitely harbour more resentment than other ex-colonies because they didn't succeed nearly as much as those in Europe, Asia and the Americas. That much is clear. Then again most of them live in land that isn't arable and with poor facilities for resource extraction.

 

Wilder wins this easily. Till this day, no other man has risen after his own autopsy since Jesus himself

 

Are you implying that they were not kings in africa? Racist

 

This is a good point.
But one of the richest countries in africa was angola and they had a war of independence and they have turned into a complete **** hole.
All be it there was a Marxist revolution that may have ****ed them over lol

 

As I stated to @ShovelHook this isn't the place for this discussion. I'm not sure how the wrongs endured by the Irish connects to the nonsensical blabbing of ill-informed YouTubers but if connects for you then so be it. If you're attempting to correlate the experience of the transatlantic slave trade and the inhumanities suffered by the Irish then there is no comparison, you're speaking apples and oranges. The sub-cultural differences found within the assimilation to western society alone makes the colonization juxtaposition different as chalk and cheese.

I appreciate the success of the Irish post persecution however I won't pretend that same empathy has the potential to distort the tragic truth behind the history of my great country.

Again this isn't the time or the place, I don't mind trading info via private message. I study social determinants of health and manage enterprises that utilize historical studies of economic stability, education, neighborhood, environment, access to healthy foods, access to quality healthcare and you'd be shocked and appalled at the inequities realized by the most vulnerable of our society.

 

Marxism does have a habit of turning previously prosperous nations into total shitholes, yes.

 

I mentioned I'm from Ireland, which has a background of hardship itself, so this guy mentioning this isn't that bad. I don't mind a tangent in the discussion, there's nothing bad being said there either. The Irish suffered much more than simple indentured servitude (which while not as bad as outright lifelong slavery, is still a form of slavery). As mentioned there, the Irish were starved to such an extent that half of the population either died or had to leave the country in the unsafest of circumstances. They had their culture forcibly quashed and religion subjugated. I'm pretty sure 100s of years of being under the boot of Britain is also not that great too.
Let's not even bother getting into the problems of Northern Ireland, that's a whole other kettle of fish that the Brits created there.

 

I'm not in the least bit religious but, from here on in I'm going to pray every morning and every night that Fury smashes this **** womble into the canvas in even more humiliating fashion than last time.

 

Sounds as if you're familiar with African agricultural and northern African “trap of sedentism” the transition of foraging to traditional farming within one of the most complicated ecological systems to exist on this planet. Lands to the south of Africa which contain more conducive terrain became a more desirable portion of land for colonizers.

I like the “twiddling thumbs” idiom since I used it to describe certain cohorts of freed African slaves post emancipation proclamation.....college days article. Government subsidies bequeathed to non-blacks to populate, industrialize and terraform millions of acres of land while the ex-bondaged populous searched for an identity and ways to support a broken family.

 

It doesn't matter where he did the interview, it has already spread everywhere on internet. It's on DAZN, Daily Mail, Mirror, Metro, Reddit, Twitter etc. It's just promotion, hyping up the fight so that more audience is attracted. There's nothing to worry about.

 

Respect, I'm quite familiar with tyranny that impregnated Ireland and I doubly impressed by the recognition of the distinct differences between chattel and indentured slavery.

The quest for economic control and power has a very nuanced and multi-faceted network of injustices. My background is quite mixed, although I identify as Puerto Rican my bloodline has direct lines to the Spanish canary islands and yes Nigeria and other western African nations. You can imagine the kaleidoscopic makeup of my genealogy.