Quote Originally Posted by bradlee180 View Post
Sure, fellas already hanging this dude out to dry, but they give mayweather a bye though he was charged with beating 6 different women, convicted for several of them, only incarcerated for one...

Typical boxing fans....

These are violent men, they get the adulation of the masses for committing violence, and people raise them up for it.
Before they got into boxing, they were violent, and upon becoming boxers, violence as the answer to everything is positively reinforced, and violence may pay them millions of dollars per fight.
Having a good PR man to come up with a good public image is bull$#!t, and Boxing fans seem to want to believe in that bull$#!t. Managers and promoters realized a hundred years ago that fans demanded a clean public image out of these rowdy violent men in a very dirty sport, so they gave the fans the image they wanted. It's bull$#!t, but that's what the fans want.

I think if any boxer's your role-model, then you're in big trouble...
How many other sport's have so many participants that were in reform school?
Does any other sport have more participants than boxing regarding arrest records, incarceration, and just one legal jam after another?

It always has been, and it always will be...
Let's be fair about this, boxing has helped more people get their lives together than it has hurt.
Let's not forget that judges, lawyers, mechanics, carpenters, CEOs, electricians, pro athletes from every sport, to make a long list shorter, I'll just say men from every walk of life slap women around on a daily basis.
I'm not saying what Wilder did is acceptable in any form or measure, what I am saying is that all forms of violence against women is a global phenomenon that runs through every culture and strata of that culture.
Like I said, let's give it a couple of days.