Dana White "Floyd Mayweather is not a superstar"

**LEGION** · 07-21-2009 03:13 AM

Originally Posted by JazMerkin

Originally Posted by LEGION

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.

He definitely should allow doing interviews, he seems way too easily riled & sadly does the thing too many young men do & let's his mouth get about 2 minutes ahead of where his brain is at. It's actually odd that he's far more eloquent after a fight where he's taken punches to the head & done something unbelievably physically draining. Maybe someone should hit him over the back of the head with a tennis racket just after each question is asked & he'll be like Gandhi

I still don't think he meant it like that, it's his usual 'I don't like that question so I'm going to let my mouth go whilst my brain takes a cigarette break' but it does give him these ridiculous quotes. I know I shouldn't have laughed at the bolded bit, but I got this mental image of the guys from Deliverance sitting with Cletus from Simpsons & couldn't help myself. I've had a pretty crap last couple of weeks, so thanks for that sentence its made me laugh more than anything.

It says something pretty bad about the HW division, when I actually totally forgot about the fighters there, I actually did a mental check & was thinking about the likes of Kessler & Pavlik but the Bros. Klit evaded.

Of course if you believe Lefty, Haye is going to destroy Vitali in the opening 10 seconds before Wlad vacates & hides in a cave in Afghanistan with Osama to avoid him, & then yeah Black Boys back on top! Woooh yeaaah!

Although again that's what Lefty tells me

Well we just see it in differing degrees and that's all good with me. We both agree he shouldn't have said it. And also yo gotta understand this is't the 1st time I've heard this type stuff before. Hell Chris Rock made a whole video about white fighters sucking

So it does lead me into a certain way of thinking.

No apologies needed about laughing at my HeeHawmobile home statement, it was meant to be humorous because I think the same thing when I hear statements like that from Floyd; it's funny....but also insulting. My mobile home is awesome

Though I don't drink alcohol......yeeeehaw

And if Haye becomes HW champ I don't think black people will be getting too upbeat about it; it's still a crap division

Peace.

**LEGION** · 07-21-2009 03:16 AM

JK I don't live in a mobile home. I'm sure they're nice and all but tornadoes seem to flock to them

**JazMerkin** · 07-21-2009 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by LEGION

Well we just see it in differing degrees and that's all good with me. We both agree he shouldn't have said it. And also yo gotta understand this is't the 1st time I've heard this type stuff before. Hell Chris Rock made a whole video about white fighters sucking

So it does lead me into a certain way of thinking.

No apologies needed about laughing at my HeeHawmobile home statement, it was meant to be humorous because I think the same thing when I hear statements like that from Floyd; it's funny....but also insulting. My mobile home is awesome

Though I don't drink alcohol......yeeeehaw

And if Haye becomes HW champ I don't think black people will be getting too upbeat about it; it's still a crap division

Peace.

WHAT??! No it won't!! Haye will revive the division & personify Ali, Tyson, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes & Louis all in one mixed-race adonis. At least that's what Lefty tells me

I agree with you totally on the Chris Rock video, I thought that crossed the line. Here you would never get a respected boxer saying he felt better when he saw a white guy as his opponent. I lost any respect for Mark Breland when I saw it. I don't even think it was Chris Rock necessarily being racist as he was asking the questions & is a comedian so is bound to be controversial. But Breland & the other guys took the piss & were being racist & I see that as very different to Floyd's comment, which I think was stupidity rather than racism.

**LEGION** · 07-21-2009 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by JazMerkin

Originally Posted by LEGION

Well we just see it in differing degrees and that's all good with me. We both agree he shouldn't have said it. And also yo gotta understand this is't the 1st time I've heard this type stuff before. Hell Chris Rock made a whole video about white fighters sucking

So it does lead me into a certain way of thinking.

No apologies needed about laughing at my HeeHawmobile home statement, it was meant to be humorous because I think the same thing when I hear statements like that from Floyd; it's funny....but also insulting. My mobile home is awesome

Though I don't drink alcohol......yeeeehaw

And if Haye becomes HW champ I don't think black people will be getting too upbeat about it; it's still a crap division

Peace.

WHAT??! No it won't!! Haye will revive the division & personify Ali, Tyson, Frazier, Foreman, Holmes & Louis all in one mixed-race adonis. At least that's what Lefty tells me

I agree with you totally on the Chris Rock video, I thought that crossed the line. Here you would never get a respected boxer saying he felt better when he saw a white guy as his opponent. I lost any respect for Mark Breland when I saw it. I don't even think it was Chris Rock necessarily being racist as he was asking the questions & is a comedian so is bound to be controversial. But Breland & the other guys took the piss & were being racist & I see that as very different to Floyd's comment, which I think was stupidity rather than racism.

They sometimes go hand in hand. And I don't necessarily think Floyd is a whitey hater; whether he hates white people I don't know and tbh don't care. I just know the comment itself was racist and stereotypical. I mean really; how does being asked about MMA in an interview manage to make its way to beer drinking white boys fighting in a sport because they suck at boxing? Sounds to me like it wasn't an off hand remark out of sheer stupidity; more like he has given it lots of thought, though no research lmao. I'm sure Bilbo will come in and debate it wasn't racist like he did when Hopkins said he'd never let a white boy beat him.

Chris Rock might not be a racist; but he didn't mind letting his name be put behind a blatantly antagonistic, racist video; so even though he might not be one he sure seemed to think it was good comical fun and endorsed it just by participating. It's a fine line imo. I hadn't meant to bring up the Rock video; I just remembered not too long ago someone posted in a thread about it and it popped into my head.

Anyway, all I can do is hope for JMM to beat him; which is about as likely as Floyd joining the KKK