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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrue or false: watching the fight tonight means you are OK with Mayweather being a terrible human
Curious to see opinions on this. I am not watching the fight, because I think Mayweather is an awful person. But I don't hold it against others who choose to watch.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)out of this world? The most I'd pay is 10 bucks.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)$100. Um no I won't be watching it. The Derby was great.
eloydude
(376 posts)it's a ripoff city, man
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)and i wouldn't do anything that might put a nickel in his pocket. but, no, people who are watching are not the problem. He is.
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davekriss
(4,618 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)because I simply don't see the attraction in watching two grown men pummel the shit out of each other.
eloydude
(376 posts)and watch Pacman pound that Mayflower ass.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)Both are terrible excuses for humans
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)I am not a boxing fan and have no interest in the fight other than it being a cultural oddity.
I do not think watching it in any way endorses Mayweather. You may as well ask if watching a football game is an endorsement of domestic violence.
Sometimes a sporting event is just a sporting event.
chillfactor
(7,576 posts)two men pounding the shit out of each other does not appeal to me...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I have standards!
donco
(1,548 posts)on?My money is on Manny.
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It doesn't matter who the gladiators are.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)I couldn't care less about boxing.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)I'm certain people are paying good money to see that.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)when it comes to women. He wants to deny birth control to women because of his fucked up religion.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)He's just as much a piece of shit as Mayweather
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)There are lots of people watching to see Pacquiao win because they hate Mayweather
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Anyone who brutalizes or injures, or in some cases, kills another person (look up deadly "beanballs" while playing a "sport" is guilty of being a terrible person. This includes boxing, football, baseball and basketball, whether college level or professional level.
I wouldn't watch this kind of debasement of humans if you paid me. I don't think boxing is a sport. It's brutality and potential fatality with rules.
Watch this: Boom Boom Mancini versus Duk Koo Kim. Knockout early in the 14th round. Kim is hauled off on a stretcher and dies in the hospital four days later. This was in November of 1982. Mr. Kim's mother killed herself four months later and the referee killed himself in July of 1983. Boom Boom was extremely upset, especially when people asked him if he was the boxer who killed Kim, and remorseful after causing Mr. Kim's death.
After this fight the WBC limited fights to 12 rounds. I don't think that makes a lot of difference.
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)brush
(53,787 posts)Check out this link on Pacs views on women/birth control and gays:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/01/manny-pacquiao-abortion-contraception-same-sex-marriage_n_7191104.html
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)"God said, 'Go out and multiply.' He did not say, just have two or three kids," Pacquiao said.
...
"It's sinful to use condoms and commit abortion," he said and when questioned about overpopulation said "my parents were poor... they had four children, it was very difficult but we persevered."
Stating he is "pro-life," Pacquiao also once said a fight solidified his position on the issue as he cast his vote in 2012, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported at the time.
What happened in Vegas strengthened my already firm belief in the sanctity of life, on whether a persons right to live in this world should be put in the hands of his fellow man...Only God has the right over this."
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7191104
vankuria
(904 posts)while also believing in the "sanctity of life"...somehow the 2 just don't go together!
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Don't really care who it is if watching two men beat on each other causes excitement or enjoyment for someone I have to wonder why.
demmiblue
(36,865 posts)In depth article here: http://deadspin.com/this-is-how-las-vegas-protects-floyd-mayweather-1699848463
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Watching the fight means you are OK with two people trying to kill each other.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)That said, anyone who thinks boxers are "trying to kill each other" are simply clueless, and ignorant of what they are talking about.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Yes, boxing is an old and respected sport, but not the way professional boxing is conducted now. They refuse to allow protective headgear, and they allow the fight to continue long after it is obvious one contestant is the victor. The long-term brain injury rate is extreme.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)It is one reason both of these guys made between 3 and $5 million per minute in the ring.
There are a lot of professions with high long term injury rates...most don't pay enough to help with the injuries. .this one does. We are back to choices people make about their lives and careers...nobody is boxing today who doesn't know the risks...
pipoman
(16,038 posts)When I was a kid I was a big fan. Every big fight was on TV for all to see ..it was a national event. The Don Kings took it away from those kids who most need it with their own greed. They deserve to lose their fan base and hopefully become less relevant than they are today...
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Nope, can't find it.
I may have been a fan a little later than you were. My favorite fight is still Hagler - Hearns, and I stayed interested in the sport through Holyfield's second title reign.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)to watch two guys beat the crap out of each other.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Don't get me wrong; we didn't watch the fight, and it was a hundred bucks well saved. Most people who did get the pay-per-view, though, probably never even thought about Mayweather's legal issues and just wanted to see what they hoped would be the "Fight of the Century."
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)by whatever Las Vegas entertainment industry created this monster. Relatively poor people paid big bucks to see their national hero fight. I feel like there's something to be blamed here, but I'm not sure what. I'm not a sports watcher myself, so I'm not sure what the business chain involved is.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)His uncle Roger Mayweather seems more like a terrible human. Mayweather, I'm not sure is defined as such. I know he's had trouble himself but don't know him personally to say one or the other. He would come from school to see needles laying around from his mom who later died from AIDS from heroin. With Roger Mayweather as an uncle I imagine he could easily be an awful person but stayed on track to become a very focused, efficient -- people don't like his arrogance but he isn't wrong when he talks about boxing. I remember the famous ESPN interview with the guy basically saying he'll lose to Pacquaio blaming him for the fight not happening over something as silly as Olympic style drug testing.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)with people beating the shit out of each other if that's what they want to do.
Choice and free will and all of that...
What I do have a problem with is when humans use animals for their own entertainment. Horse/dog racing. Bullfighting. Fox hunting (don't know if people still do that though). Dogfighting, cockfighting.
People wanna be assholes? Go for it.
Just leave the animals alone.