Boos for national anthems are disgraceful

[Big-mike13]

I am on the side that says booing the national anthems is bad. I know that a couple of years ago there was alot of that going on w/ the US and Canada before hockey games and they would have players for each team on the big screens request that the fans not boo the anthems. It seemed to work.

[Jody Lane]

If I was fighting and say against a british fighter and the british fans started booing during the American anthem I'd just walk over to the other corner, grab the british flag, rip it in half and stomp on it.

[Gandalf]

If I was fighting and say against a british fighter and the british fans started booing during the American anthem I'd just walk over to the other corner, grab the british flag, rip it in half and stomp on it.

[jon09]

Am I the only person who doesn't think it's a really big deal? 99% of the time, the boos are aimed at the fighter, not the country he is from (what beef could Puerto Ricans have with the modern British?). And even if they are directed at the country, so what? People are allowed to express themselves.

The singing of national anthems at professional sporting events annoys me anyways, I wouldn't mind in the least if they disappear from them entirely.

Agreed

[Drago]

Also if you really think about it. What happens when you get a guy like Lennox Lewis again? Do you play the British,Canadian,and Jamaican national anthems? It's pointless if you ask me too.

nah man just british as was born here, he can have the others as well if he asked nicely

[Drago]

Am I the only person who likes the booing?

Seriously boxing is about watching two people attempt to beat up the other guy and the vast majority of the paying fans at the event are there to support one of those guys against the other.

They paid their cash to be there, they have every right to support their fighter and boo the opposing fighter and his anthem if they want to it's all pantomime and part of what makes sport great.

Newsflash, the vast majority of sports fans don't pay their cash to watch something impartially without an opinion on all wins. And secondly its a natural reaction for all sporting fans to see a victory for our fighter, our team etc as a victory for us, it's what gives sport its meaning and value.

The vast majority of people who go to sporting events go with groups of friends, they get pissed, boo the other team, other guy, sing songs, chant etc. It's just harmless fun.

If fans wern't allowed to boo, chant, sing and be totally partisan they most likely wouldn't go the fights, matches etc.

Do you want everyone to have to wear a shirt and tie like Merchent and Lampley and then sit in silence like they do for tennis whilst eating strawberries and sipping pims?

Fuck that, boxing is a rough working man's game and its fans the rough working class man. If he's going to stump up his hard earned cash to go and watch a fight then he has every right to boo the shit out of the other fighter and his country if he wants to.

If you don't like booing of the anthems then stop playing them, its not like any fan in the arena wants to sit through 15 mins of gay pre fight pagentry anyhow with wannabe American R&B stars competing amongst themselves to see who can bastardise their anthem the most by turning it into some hip hop dance track or showcase their vocal skills.

The last part you mention is the thing that does actually bug me a lot. Anthems are bad enough anyway, but why the need for these god awful singers how over enunciate every word and stretch out the anthem for as long as possible?? Now some of these singers really deserve a good booing!

Just dreadful IMO.

yes these american idols cheapen the anthems for sure

[Drago]

thought it was totally over the top, not the booing but having to listen to those fkin national athems in the first place wot a load of bollocks. makes sense in a football match or rugby but why the fk with boxers? didnt they play the american anthem as well?

anyone remember i thought they did?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

yes, for all the servicemen and women.

the rest of the US can sod off then?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

If I was fighting and say against a british fighter and the british fans started booing during the American anthem I'd just walk over to the other corner, grab the british flag, rip it in half and stomp on it.

hard to do wearing boxing gloves.

[Drago]

basically what hopkins did then

[Spicoli]

Of course their are exceptions.... A case of not booing the Anthem, just the sooey butchering it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFW2aYHVR8

[Drago]

Of course their are exceptions.... A case of not booing the Anthem, just the sooey butchering it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrFW2aYHVR8

thats sum funny shit

[rjj tszyu]

The "minority" dickhead british have left us open to this shit. Now we are getting booed and cannot really complain.

So can we give a round of applause to the dickheads!!!

[Jody Lane]

If I was fighting and say against a british fighter and the british fans started booing during the American anthem I'd just walk over to the other corner, grab the british flag, rip it in half and stomp on it.

Whatever Miles

[Jody Lane]

If I was fighting and say against a british fighter and the british fans started booing during the American anthem I'd just walk over to the other corner, grab the british flag, rip it in half and stomp on it.

hard to do wearing boxing gloves.

Ok how about grabbing it and pretending to wipe my ass with it?