I have never seen 2 fighters who are so desperate for acceptance and recognition,that they are even willing to say the stupidest stuff just so they can get people to acknowledge them...........Holmes should just stop and enjoy his accomplishments and Floyd should stop whining and start fighting( fighters he might actually lose to,like Cotto,Margo,Williams,etc..) Greatness always comes with risk and he doesnt seem to want to take those risks....Shame
they both seem insecure in their accomplishments&sour alot of people to them by bitchin all the time. holmes still complains about not having fought foreman.
Dumb thread. There isn't any similarity. Considering some of you are probably 12, you wouldn't understand what Holmes had to go through to earn his shot unlike other fighters. AS far as Floyd goes, I do think Floyd wants to be "LOVED" universally but to me considering most people who watch boxing only want to see a rock'em, sock'em brawl, it works against Floyd. The fact that he's "black" (Yeah I said it), full of bravado, cocky and is associated with "hip hop generation" will lead to further scorn by most of the media and consumers of boxing at large.
Yeah, men like Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Foreman, Frazier, Tyson, Holmes, Holyfield, Lewis, Whitaker, Jones Jr., Mosley, and Williams, were to my knowledge all black at one point or another:huh but managed to somehow make that very racist boxing public tune in to watch them fight.
Why is black in quotes? Is he actually a different color and just pretending to be black? I think Floyd's lack of natural charisma hurts boxing more than anything else. Unless you buy his gangsta facade, he's actually really boring....and even when he's being emotional (like crying on 24/7) you don't believe it regardless of how "human" he looks. Floyd is a very smart business man...but a very poor actor.
Holmes was a decent human being...Gay Jr. is a scum bag. BTW, you'll never hear me say anything bad about him again. Its a waste of my time & can't be bothered anymore. Old Polish saying: "You touch ****, you get your fingers dirty"
I put "Black" in quotes because it's the only similarity I could see. As far as the idiot who had the audacity to say, "dumb response" well say something better. You explain to me why Gerry Cooney who beat no one but old ass Jimmy Ellis and Ken Norton was able to get equal dollar in comparison to Holmes if race played NO PART? ? Rattling off Hearns, Leonard's etc names means nothing. Answer that last question and don't say some stupid schit like "Cooney was selling tickets and Holmes wasnt" and I'll tell you that was a flat out lie. Holmes had to struggle to earn big paydays. Fought guys that were primed. Cooney fought tomato cans literally outside of Ellis and Norton. Again, what the hell did he do to deserve a $10,000,000 in 1982 (which inflation wise is probably $20milion + now) ? AS far as Mayweather being a scumbag, thats your opinion. I tend to not get into fighters how they are outside the ring because I generally don't care.
First off if you say Dumb Thread its ok, so obviously you are capable of dishing it out and not taking it.Secondly the whole point of this thread was to answer a question of a personal observation about there behavioral similarities. So basically your the only idiot here because you are incapable of understanding the original idea behind the thread. Also if i were in front of you id call you idiot to your face and i doubt you would have the AUDACITY to respond.