Quote Originally Posted by chinchekked View Post
Quote Originally Posted by frasd View Post
My brother-in-law knows little about boxing but was asking about who would win a fight that I had no idea of either participant.
It reminded me of what my boxing coach told me back 25 years ago (pre Klitchkos, and crap I feel old)
He said middleweight and above bet on the black guy. Below bet on the Mexican or Puerto Rican. If it is two white guys bet n the guy with the most tattoos.


Thinking back this now amuses me but there may be some truth to it.


Not sure why I felt the need to share this but there it is.
First of all I will say that this is a fair enough post because I'm sure you aren't the only one who has heard all kinds of theories related to race especially associated with boxing. Look at the comments section of a fight posted on YouTube if you really want to be disgusted. I find this a bit humorous though, but I don't think this is racist at all.
in a way it makes sense most black people tend to be taller hence them fighting at a higher weight class and Hispanics / Latinos tend to be shorter so they start at lower weight classes. Like Marquez going for the 5th weight class title most Mexicans tend to not go higher then 140. Only relative Mexicans higher then 147 are Canelo Chavez Jr and I guess you can include Areola