"Mayweather Sees a Racial Double Standard in Megafight vs. McGregor"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/sports/mayweather-mcgregor-fight-race.html
'“If it’s an antagonistic fight between two blacks, it’s one thing,” King said in a recent interview. “But if it’s an antagonistic fight between a white and a black, then you can play the race card tremendously and get an overwhelming return.”
Such deliberate racial themes, long a tradition in boxing, might not be laid out quite as starkly on Saturday night when the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., who is black, and the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who is white, square off in Las Vegas in a boxing match.
But race has certainly influenced this spectacle of a bout between two titans of their respective sports in ways both stark and subtle."
"...racial friction has frequently been embedded in boxing, and sometimes used to make money.'
Everybody is always looking for ways to make money, so I'm not surprised (though I am disappointed) that racial friction is being used for this very purpose in Trump's America. But I'm not gonna be like the Donald & say "there's not a racist bone in my body". Because we all have some degree of conscious & unconscious racist feelings (although some people are just plain racists) & there are many reasons why we're suspicious of one another: insecurity, fear, learned behavior, isolation, etc. Thankfully, most of us use common sense to deal with one another because everybody is different, & we all know you can't determine whether a person is decent or not just based on that person's race alone. I've had issues with people of all races, at the same time I've been treated fairly by people of all races too.
But back to the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight (besides the irresponsibility of creating racial friction), the main problem for me is the fact I don't really like either fighter.
I rarely watch mixed-martial-arts so I don't know much about McGregor except the fact he told Mayweather to "dance for me, boy" which is a very stupid & reckless thing for a Caucasian to say to an African-American boxer. But as far as Mayweather, the last boxing match of his I watched was against Pacquiao where he ran for most of the fight. I remember having to call the cable company a week after the fight for an unrelated issue and the automated system had an option for (something along the lines of) "those wanting to complain about the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight" (Though I'm sure the cable company didn't refund shit). Regardless, it still would've been interesting for me to watch the Mayweather vs McGregor fight if I thought it'd be a competitive match: but most experts agree Mayweather will win (but we'll see).
The fight I am interested in watching is Canelo vs GGG where to be 100% honest I'll probably root for Canelo BECAUSE I've followed the ups & downs of his fighting career. Thought I'm sure some of you prob think I'll root for Canelo because he's a Latino. He's definitely Latino (born in Mexico), but he looks like a white Irish boxer, so there you go...
Update at 9:57pm AZ time: Mayweather defeated McGregor by 10th round TKO (like everyone said. Nevertheless, people spent $100).
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