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So there was a big, vaguely described, public kerfuffle at a beach in my city, so I logged onto Xitter to see what happened. The first (and only relevant post) was from a sinister-ish sounding bluecheck. Low and behold, I found that he writes to the Unz review.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240526210416/https://www.unz.com/article/the-worlds-greatest-boxer-is-a-white-man/ It's all about Usyk, a heavyweight boxer who's considered a pound for pound great. Usyk is a great boxer, undoubtedly. But this article is strangely constructed, borderline pointless, and brazenly racist (shocker). And honestly, reading the comments, I think the author's just trying to cope with the fact that black boxers tend to be popular.
I don't think racist cope on its own is even worth a stubstack, but this one take is especially stupid:
To those unfamiliar with combat sports, I can't emphasize enough how weird it is to say that the heavyweight champ is the best boxer, period. Skill - irrespective of raw strength - is super important to boxers and other people who participate in combat sports. To the point that any fan ranking a pro boxer will likely talk about "Pound for pound" (p4p) greats, not the objectively strongest fighters. And right now the unofficial p4p great is a sub 5'6" Japanese boxer Naoya "Monster" Inoue. This man is a beast. I don't need to glaze him any harder, just google him or look up what people think on reddit. Weirdly enough, he's not mentioned once.
Hell, he doesn't mention Gervonta "Tank" Davis at all. He's half an inch shorter than Inoue, but he's also considered a p4p great and is known for his high boxing IQ. As a matter of fact, he doesn't mention Terence Crawford - 5'8" also considered a p4p great - at all either. Hmmm.
And here are my favorite sneers from the comment section
This guy gets fucking dunked on for not reading the room and claiming that black guys might actually be better boxers, genetically.
And this guy thinks that weight classes are for wokies.
Honestly, I'm starting to think this post was threadworthy just from the comment section alone.
This used to be a Joe Rogan staple: no weight classes, no time limits and the ring should be the size of a basketball court.
It's really just the umpteenth reiteration of the meathead mantra of how I'd do really well in [popular combat sport] if it weren't for those pesky rules holding me back.
Fucking lmao. Imagine being as big as Joe and wanting to fight in a ring the size of Kansas where you can't go the distance.
You def wouldn't need weightclasses though, the featherweights would just have to run until the heavyweights pass out from dehydration/exhaustion. It'd be like the hunger games