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A lot of boxing fans like myself don't pick a side. They pick fighters individually based off a number of reasons but I've noticed over the years from mainly social media comments and YouTubers that there are 2 main fan bases in boxing. It was big during the Mayweather/Pacquiao era (Flomos/Pactards) and it carried on. Pacquiao fans jumped on the GGG wagon after Floyd beat Pacquiao demanding Floyd to fight GGG whilst a lot of the Floyd fans wanted GGG to face ward and want Canelo to beat GGG because it would make Floyd look good since he schooled Canelo.
Today on one side we have: Lomachenko, Postol, GGG, Kovalev and all the other successful eastern european boxers (the east). And on the other side we have Rigo, Crawford, Spence, Canelo, Ward and etc (the west). I personally like GGG more than I like Canelo but I also like Mayweather more than I like Pacquiao but many boxing fans cant seem to do that. Its either Pac/GGG/Kovalev or May/Canelo/Ward.
Obviously racism plays a huge part on both sides but its also political. There seems to be a big up rise in what some are calling Alt Right boxing fans. They seem to really dislike American boxers and have a big hard on for Eastern Europeans which is no surprise since many Alt Rights tend to love Russia and Putin whilst hating on many of their own politicians and country.
Its funny that during the May/Pac fight Mayweather was in the blue corner and Pacquiao was in the red corner. Crawford was in the blue corner and Postol was in the red corner in their fight and Kovalev was red corner and Ward was blue corner in their fight. Not trying to make out some type of conspiracy here but we cant deny there is a big East vs West theme going on in boxing now days which I kinda like. Would love if countries solved wars based of boxing fights.
Mike Tyson brought up the origins of blue/red corner in this video:
Today on one side we have: Lomachenko, Postol, GGG, Kovalev and all the other successful eastern european boxers (the east). And on the other side we have Rigo, Crawford, Spence, Canelo, Ward and etc (the west). I personally like GGG more than I like Canelo but I also like Mayweather more than I like Pacquiao but many boxing fans cant seem to do that. Its either Pac/GGG/Kovalev or May/Canelo/Ward.
Obviously racism plays a huge part on both sides but its also political. There seems to be a big up rise in what some are calling Alt Right boxing fans. They seem to really dislike American boxers and have a big hard on for Eastern Europeans which is no surprise since many Alt Rights tend to love Russia and Putin whilst hating on many of their own politicians and country.
Its funny that during the May/Pac fight Mayweather was in the blue corner and Pacquiao was in the red corner. Crawford was in the blue corner and Postol was in the red corner in their fight and Kovalev was red corner and Ward was blue corner in their fight. Not trying to make out some type of conspiracy here but we cant deny there is a big East vs West theme going on in boxing now days which I kinda like. Would love if countries solved wars based of boxing fights.
Mike Tyson brought up the origins of blue/red corner in this video:
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