Bernard Hopkins: Black fighters, we are built differently

[generalbulldog]

Bernard Hopkins: Black Fighters, We Are Built Differently - Boxing News

B-Hop talks about how black fighters are built differently and that most blacks are just athletic and he says that as a whole they are just more athletic and that other races have to work hard to get those attributes that blacks don't. He says it's called genetics.

[miron_lang]

Bernard Hopkins: Black Fighters, We Are Built Differently - Boxing News

B-Hop talks about how black fighters are built differently and that most blacks are just athletic and he says that as a whole they are just more athletic and that other races have to work hard to get those attributes that blacks don't. He says it's called genetics.

Calz must have those genes too.

[Kev]

Pretty fair comments really. They can't swim though.

[levi#1BoxingFan]

Pretty fair comments really. They can't swim though.

LOL! so true. When i was young and in buddy league baseball, my team had a pool party at my house. One of my african american friends on the team gets up on the diving board ready to jump in, and my dad asks him " You can swim cant you". he responds " ya ya". He jumps in and immedietly starts to panic and sank a few feet under water, my dad had to jump in (overalls and all) after him. True story.

[armyash]

Pretty fair comments really. They can't swim though.

True they can't swim the black guys who i have done swim tests with in the army usually fail!

i know black lads who do no running never lift weights and are still ripped

[TitoFan]

Oh... Hopkins will be spewing his ignorant bullshit for years to come. Face it... he's a street-raised punk who's done time. He has no skills other than fighting. He sees his time in the limelight coming to an end. What ELSE is he going to do? He's gonna whatever he can to steal that spotlight... THAT'S what he's going to do. Fortunately, time will continue to pass, and Hopkins' moronic comments will begin to fade away from the public press until he's just ranting and raving on the local street corner, to anyone willing to listen.

[BoxingGorilla]

I think genetics has everything to do with aptitude. Still, there are desirable and undeisrable mind/body types in every race with paring making all the difference. After that it's enviroment and development.

Race has someting to do with something or we would all look the same. It's why I believe in creation and not evolution. We were created equally not identically.

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[bzkfn]

Bernard Hopkins: Black Fighters, We Are Built Differently - Boxing News

B-Hop talks about how black fighters are built differently and that most blacks are just athletic and he says that as a whole they are just more athletic and that other races have to work hard to get those attributes that blacks don't. He says it's called genetics.

It's called practice. Police are racist, and if I was getting chased by the police I'd run too!

[erics44]

its actually true

there was a big study done on it, ill find something on it if i can

but athleticness was tested on different races from an early age right through to late teans

for instance black kids could run much faster than any other race at all ages

they have a lower body fat percent which seems to make the difference, but even when you take say 5 black kids and 5 exception white kids all with the same body fat percentage, the results are closer, but the black kids still run faster

[HattonTheHammer]

didnt a study once find that black people have denser bone muscle structures to every other race therefore are more competitive in impact sports such as sprinting

Either way its a dumbfounded argument, the white race could claim its genetic advancements make it better allround athletes, asians could claim being mentally superior gives them advantages.

swings and roundabouts, whats more concerning is since getting his ass handed to him by calzaghe hopkins seems fixated on the whole issue of race

[porkypara]

If Hopkins were white then the KKK would be asking him to open up The Philly branch of the clan.

Stupid comments again but it gets him press time.

[generalbulldog]

To some extent what he mentions is true. African Americans and other blacks that can trace their lineage to West Africa have naturally lower body fat percentages and subtle differences in skeletal structure. This is why Jamaicans (apart from sprinting being ingrained in the culture) and other black sprinters can run sub 10 and a white male is yet to do it. They also have higher levels of testosterone.

On the other hand you won't see a black man do what Michael Phelps did at the Olympics either or dominate gymnastics.

Depends on the sport......certain physical traits may make some black boxers faster (more quick twitch muscle fibre) but at the end of the day boxing is equal opportunity and it's skills and other aspects (styles) that win you fights. The Jews and Italians no longer send the hundreds of contenders to the ring they once did, so circumstance plays a part too.

[El Kabong]

Apparently Bernard wants to go out of his way to make sure everyone knows he's a dumbass. Bernard if all this race stuff is true then how do you explain Sergio Martinez, Manny Pacquiao, The Klitschko's, etc?

[fan johnny]

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