Actually i find the media and western government go out of their way to tell us islam is a peaceful religion and its just the minority that are terrorists. However having been in mid east countries and seen them blow each other up non stop its hard to believe peace is on their mind
Quoting the BBC quoting the PM David Cameron: "They are killing and slaughtering thousands of people - Christians, Muslims, minorities across Iraq and Syria. They boast of their brutality. They claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29198128 It's repeated again and again in the media...
People in the UK (the media, especially) seem to resent success and people that are openly ambitious. That's why Khan is more popular in the US.
No one here in the usa knows who he is but then again other than fmj and pac most people couldnt name one fighter
Yes David Cameron does! Because you'll find if he doesn't, there'll be a huge upset when the Muslim population don't vote at the next election. Take any notice of the Murdoch Empire and Fox news, and you'll find they tar Muslims with the same brush. If it was so well implemented into everyone's brain that Islam was the religion of peace, then there wouldn't be so much of a hatred towards Islam...... which there is..........just read through some of these threads
I have seen The Sun take exactly the same line as the BBC does: it's a religion of peace. I was commenting on what the mainstream media repeatedly tries to tell people. As for what people actually think, yes, probably quite a few people have doubts about the religion. Not everyone is buying what The Sun etc. is selling.
Haye's WBA HW title was a paper title at best. Really poor quality title in those days. Valuev had the title because Chagaev caught hepatitis or something like that ! And obviously several dodgy decisions. Haye did well at cruiser but we're talking about a weak division, a weak pool of fighters. I mean, are Mormeck and Maccarinelli better than Alexander, Maidaina and Malinaggi ?
Maybe, but it is difficult to dispute that Haye has had a very successful career, much more so than Khan. Unifying and clearing out a division is pretty good going no matter what its strength. Things might change of course, as Khan's career is not over, but at the moment he still has much to prove. Haye hasn't got anything to prove.
Haye unified some titles, but did he really "clear it out" ? I mean, he only had a total TWO world title fights at that weight. :huh And weren't the titles split between him and Steve Cunningham (who held the IBF at the time) ? It's not as if Haye held ALL the belts. He didn't actually fight many top cruisers. His cruiserweight achievements have become a bit overblown in the memories of British boxing fans ..... probably because his heavyweight career was so disappointing. Anyway, Khan has beat some decent fighters, that's the size of it. I'm not saying he's necessarily better than Haye, neither of them are truly elite by any stretch, but he gets a lot more criticism for blowing his own trumpet than Haye ever did. I mean, Haye talked himself into a super-fight and everyone accepted that as a good thing (until the actual bell rang and the fight sucked. ).