(US FANS) admit it...you got pumped when floyd came out to springsteen...

I actually hate the song. It's not patriotic at all.

 

I really did want Hatton to win....right up until the Brits were booing our national anthem, then that pissed me off and I wanted Mayweather to win. lol. But yeh that would have been THE LAST song in the world that I would have guessed him entering to......seriously

 

I admit I was pumped for it, even though I'm not American, just because I was cheering for Floyd and was saying he should play something patriotic. Funny how 80% of the crowd was against Mayweather though, in Vegas.

 

Yeh no ****,,,on his home turf. LOL

 

:yep :good

 

It talks about the Vietnam war and what not.

 

Dude, try listening to read some of the lyrics of these 'rock n roll' songs and not some gay rap album that does nothing to educate or empower its people to make a change.

Here are the lyrics to Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen. (He's a little overrated as a rock guy but he has decent lyrics if you can get past his screaming)

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up

[chorus:]
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man

[chorus]

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"

[chorus]

I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.



Nothing in the USA to be proud about in that song, but its a part of our history. Well, Mayweather could have been a little more cheesier buy coming out to "Living in America" from Rocky IV.

 

I did, and I don't like him.

The best use of that I ever saw was a deaf kid coming out to it in London.

 

Probably, but at the end of the night when Mayweather was whooping Hatton in the 8th the USA chants were damn loud and not to mention in the 10th when Mayweather dropped Hatton the crowd went nuts :yep

 

Its not anti-american, its anti vietnam war and the general shape of the country at that time.

You can hate a policy and love a country.

Not to mention, whatever the intentions were, when its played in that context, it has BECOME patriotic.

 

Its a Protest Song, plain and simple...

What was Mayweather protesting, the millions of dollars he earned that night?

Its like the stupid "Friends" episode where they used Yellow ledbetter by Pearl Jam to use as a love song. That song was about a guy coming home in a basket from the gulf war.

Anyways, what's cool about Mayweather is his theatric entrances whether its coming out in Roman soldier gear, pissing off Mexicans by wearing Mexican colors and a huge Sombrero when fighting DLH, or using Bruce Springsteen to unite all the US fans to make it a USA vs Britain rivalry. Personally, the desecration of our national anthem seemed to unite the people more than a Bruce Springsteen song. Props to Mayweather though for using psychological warfare in his ring entrances..

 

Thats a nice slow song and if you don't really listen to the words is can sound romantic

 

It's anti-war and anti that govt, but it's still a patriotic song. It's like **** sucks but this is still our country. Hell of a song anyways

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