"Floyd Mayweather sells more PPV's because he's American"

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011.


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  1. JabCross727

    JabCross727 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    How about Filipino boxers like Pacquiao?
     
    JabCross727, Jun 26, 2011
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  2. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    Umm lower middle class denotes income. Working class denotes a class of labor or social grouping.

    They are mutally inclusive. :lol::patsch
     
    MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011
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  3. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    I.e another concession. :good
     
    MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011
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  4. horst

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    Well, are you the same guy who said that "floored" didn't mean hitting the floor, and that said you were not "inactive" when you're not fighting? Or not?


    I would NEVER have believed ANYONE would not know what the words "floored" or "inactive" meant, so I have learned NEVER to rule ANYTHING out with someone as dangerously ******ed as youself. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
     
    horst, Jun 26, 2011
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  5. horst

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    Except that's bull**** of course.

    This content is protected
     
    horst, Jun 26, 2011
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  6. KnuckleUp99

    KnuckleUp99 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Floyd has a following, no doubt. But are you really trying to compare PAC's popularity to Floyd's?? On a global scale?:lol: Look....in the US Floyd is probably a little more popular in terms of WHO is willing to buy his fights.

    But there's NO competition world wide and PAC is gaining ground on Floyd in his own country. PAC and Floyd have VASTLY different kinds of fans.

    Floyd has a lot of people who support him but even MORE who are just wishing the they see the fight that Floyd gets his ass handed to him.

    PAC has a bunch of fans who are avid and loyal PAC Man fans and even more who are just casual boxing fans who support PAC b/c PAC is the "COOL THING" in boxing and want to be apart of it.

    Which is why Floyd is a bit jammed up and heated over the disparity in their fan bases.
     
    KnuckleUp99, Jun 26, 2011
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  7. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    I was referring more to the view of Mayweather as being ghetto rather then a comparison between the lifestyles the fighters had to endure. No doubt Pacquiao had it far rougher.
     
    MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011
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  8. hussleman

    hussleman Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Maybe not 20 years but Today....Yes You Can!!!
     
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  9. horst

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    I'm more than happy to concede any of this insignificant stuff, safe in the knowledge that Pac was the official FOTD and is the current p4p king. I'm a boxing fan, I don't care about the other stuff, so I'm happy :good
     
    horst, Jun 26, 2011
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  10. horst

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    You can move from one to the other, but you can't be two things at the same time. D'oh!
     
    horst, Jun 26, 2011
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  11. hussleman

    hussleman Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    OOOPS forgot about the Reagan era .....Yes you could be working class and lower middle class. Maybe not 40 years ago, that's more accurate!!!
     
    hussleman, Jun 26, 2011
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  12. horst

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    :clap::clap::clap:

    MichiganGangstah has just been owned yet again.
     
    horst, Jun 26, 2011
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  13. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    The PPV's dont reflect this.

    People have been saying that for years. I dont buy it. Nobodies going to shell out 53 bucks just so the other guy might lose. Doesnt make sense. If you dont like a guy you hope he loses but you arent going to buy his fights.

    Floyds skills are highly respected. Even among the laymen you can respect it. I showed my mother a Mayweather fight, and she knows nothing about boxing, and she even remarked how robotic he was in his precision.

    No doubt pacquiao has a vastly more rabid fanbase, but in terms of popularity he falls short.
     
    MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011
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  14. Swarmer

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    I never even thought of PBF as ghetto. He lived the life of a typical midwestern black family: not being able to get most of what you want and having a completely dysfunctional family life, but at least being able to eat consistently, have a roof over your head.

    Floyd had people that cared about him, as angsty as he is. Look at Pacquiao, he knows he has no excuse to wild out even if his beginnings were ****ed: he's wealthy, an international icon, and a hero to many.
     
    Swarmer, Jun 26, 2011
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  15. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    No its not.


    The problem with “working class” is that it denotes a class of labor and a particular social grouping, rather than a class of income, while middle and upper middle class — though obviously imprecise in the vernacular — connote a comparative income. The use of “working class” as a category, while obviously designed to overcome the questionable utility of a system by which 80 percent of Americans self-identify as middle class, creates a whole new host of problems for surveys that attempt to determine how income affects people’s perceptions — so much so that, in the middle of its own analysis, ABC News switches to using income-based definitions of the middle/working-class divide to tease out how concerned people are about the economy.

    http://washingtonindependent.com/79274/what-is-the-difference-between-middle-class-and-working-class



    Fail again poppy. Or better yet, "my biatch"
     
    MichiganWarrior, Jun 26, 2011
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