Quote Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy View Post
jeees, GAME is doing his MAB thing



The sheer weirdness of countries. Look at the fights he gave people and the lack of respect (by some he's given).

Not had to work up from the gutter like 'other' Mexican fighters. Why did Oscar play down his somewhat more middleclass roots in favour of acting more blue collar? He was hated enough for beating Chavez.


I've never fallen in to the working class hero myth here or in other countries. It smacks of ignorance and a glorification of the gutter. Yeah being poor is so great.
I agree, I think its just the adversity gives the average person (particularly in a country like Mexico) something they can identify with. I think MAB is the greater fighter, but I don't speak for the people of Mexico. One thing I do find strange is how they go on about Kelly Pavlik's 'working class hero' roots as if all other boxers are raised in Bel-Air or Hampstead. Particularly when he was up against Hopkins they kept going on about it, & I thought where would you rather grow up, Youngstown, which is economically depressed, but a seemingly together little town, or the ghettos of Philladelphia, which are the crime & murder capitals of the US? Hmmmm...