Dana White "Floyd Mayweather is not a superstar"

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I've seen that entire interview though & he actually says that they're incredible athletes, his dislike seems more aimed at White than the fighters. The comment about race, whilst badly phrased (would you expect otherwise from Floyd) does have some truth to it in the sense that in recent years the popularity of a fighter & hence sport can be related to the ethnicity of fighters. I'm not saying that fans only come from one background, but the popularity of Manny Pacquiao has boosted Fillipino interest in the sport, similarly with Khan & much of the Asian community in Britain, which first got into boxing due to Naz (even though he was Arab). Look at the support Ricky Hatton & Joe Calzaghe had & you can see why UFC is still way behind boxing in Britain. In UFC, we don't really have a 'star' (no Bisping doesn't count), whilst our leading boxers are everywhere, the exception being Haye who doesn't really have any solid fanbase in the same way Hatton, Calzaghe, Froch & Khan do.

Agree man. And I'm a white boy; it doesn't offend me what he says because it's the truth. I admit; I get behind guys like Pavlik and Hatton or the Quarry's or Cobb's of the world, just because in the end we all get behind fighters of our own ethnicity at times. Doesn't make us racist, just proud. Yeah, white boxers suck. Big deal. I can live with that. My favorite fighters are all black and hispanic, like Foster or Carbajal. But I got more respect for the shitty Tex Cobb's of the world than a guy who retired before finishing business in the WW division.

Floyd was talking sh#t a while back about UFC and Dana said he'd pay him to fight Sean Sherk; if it was that easy and he was a white boy chump he should have done it; easy $$$ and all those bragging rights. He would have been smashed to bits in about 2 minutes and he knows it. I don't think he was scared; I just think before he starts saying it's a white trash sport and whitey can only Wrastle' and he's on a different level he should back it up or stfu. He made it racial and anyone who saw that interview knows he went there on purpose.

Not trying to offend anyone here. I judge people by character, not color.

Yeah, there's nothing racial about supporting someone of your own colour, everyone else does it, I don't see why white people can't as well. I do think you're reading a bit much into what he says though, he says there's no white boxers who're really dominating the sport right now. A year ago with Hatton, Pavlik, Calzaghe etc all at or near the top that wasn't true, but it is right now. I disagree with the white people made it to have something to be good at, that's bollocks, but if he means (& I assume he does) that white people are interested in it because there are more white fighters in it.

It was Arum who said it was a white trash sport & all the other comments, & Floyd did retract the stuff he said about MMA after the Sherk incident, probably for exactly the reasons you said. He's bound to continue to say boxing is better, of course he would, can you imagine the storm if he said MMA was better?? Everyone would be on here saying Floyd was selling the sport out. I personally dislike Dana White tryna claim he's a 'huge boxing fan', if he was he wouldn't be relentlessly trying to put the 2 into competition together.

Maybe I am reading too much into it; but when Floyd makes a blanket statement like that and doesn't even know white people didn't create the idea of the UFC then I'm going to read it how it is being presented to me. Yeah he didn't exactly say it was white trash, but when you say MMA is for beer drinkers and then say white people had to make the sport to be able to fight competitively it's implying the same thing; white beer drinkers in their mobile homes heehawing it up for the white boy victory; that's how I see it. Either way it shouldn't have been said. And, last time I looked, the whitey's from Russia were dominatin the HW division. Not that I'm bragging that up

Like I said; got all the respect for his talents; never once have I said he wasn't an amazing talent if not the most talened fighter I have seen. LOL'd when he made Hatton pinball off the ring post; put a bag over my head when he destroyed Gatti I just think he should shut his mouth; he's not talented in that area like he is in the ring. But he won't and that's fine; he can say whatever he wants. I can appreciate the art without appreciating the artist.