askchapo

Combat sports especially boxing=reactionary. Heavily nationalistic and racialised. And it showed the worst aspects from colored world championship due to color barrier that infected sports in general. Even today its more racialised than any other sport I know. You know how many dudes didn't fuck with ryan garcia or teofimo lopez until they went on racial tirades on black people? And the excuse is "oh thats just the way the sport is. Even boxing media doesn't admonish the racism shown because the media is also reactionary

Even the boxing styles are stereotypical do not get me started. Soviet style, mexican style etc. Even though all of said ones have different varieties of style within them its still racialised in a goofy way. Boxing media also contributes to it. If you gave this level of shallow analysis in most other sport (the ones not ruled by the good old boys club) you'd not only be laughed out people would look at you crazy.

Lets not even look at how badly the promoters rip off the fighters. Arum and don king? Shit go back to the days of the mobs running things you'll see how badly these guys got exploited. Several of them used by criminal elements as well to launder drugs etc through the fighters. Given the background of many fighters they may not be the most financially literate. Promoters take advantage of this and get them into contracts that favor their managers and promoters, leading to unfair financial arrangements.

And given how horrible boxing is for health these lot end up in a bad place when their careers are done. Hell career can be shortened by crazy stipulations like rehydration clauses among other things that put them at even bigger risk