Oh so now DDP, who started the whole thing is the victim. What DDP said is wrong, just because you train and grew up somewhere doesn't make you a real african and others fake. A real African is someone who is born in Africa and shows allegiances to Africa. Id argue that just being born in Africa jdoesn't alone make someone a true African. A true African is shown in what they do for Africa and how they give back. DDP insults other African fighters and theres no evidence of anything he's ever done to give back to africa and make a difference. He's more of a fake African than they are.
Yes, it does. Africa has huge limitations like I said as far as resource constraints go. It is extremely honorable for one to choose to deal with those limitations on a daily basis and have the overhead of it affecting them out of patriotic love for not wanting to leave the country as Dricus can move wherever he wants to but chooses not to out of love for his country. People leave Africa because they want all of the resources and tools available to them. I know so many South Africans who move out of SA because of how bad it is over there. Adesanya, Usman and Ngannou all train in US or in NZ because they have all of those resources available to them. Dricus chooses to stay in SA because he is loyal to his country and chooses to deal with the limitations of electricity, water etc. that one has to deal with. You can argue till you are blue, but that simply cannot be ignored as a patriotic act on Dricus' behalf.
Kamaru Usman never called himself Marty from Nebraska. That's something that sherdoggers, Colby and other racists like yourself refer to him as.
Yes, indeed he did. When he was in wrestling team, he used to refer to himself as Marty from Nebraska. You again are so biased against Dricus that you would do anything to throw doubts. Want proof? So did Adesanya calling himself Chinese when he was fighting out of China.
Ngannou, Izzy and Usman don't brag about giving back to Africa. It's not like they're on twitter and social media saying "hey I did this and that for Africa, I'm such a great person because of it" All three guys have youtube channels that show videos of their lives and things they do. Those videos show their journey back and how they give back to where they're from because it's an important part of the story and is inspiring.
Yes, they do. That is how you know through the videos they release of them visiting Africa with lots of people around etc. If they did it quietly and without showboating, majority of the people would not know. Since you are biased, you are going to skew everything in favor of Adesanya, Usman and Ngannou to belittle DDP.
Also, just because you see optics of engagement does not mean you know how much ACTUAL involvement is. For example, you either don't know or you chose to ignore it thinking I would not know that Ngannou was expelled from his Cameroonian MMA gym because of lack of involvement where they said, he just used it for optics while rarely ever actually engaging or supporting the cause.
Also some things are picked up by news and is general knowledge. Kamaru Usman having an MMA promotion out of Africa is general knowledge. Francis running an MMA gym for youth and building facilities is general knowledge.
The only evidence I found was ONE face off where he appeared next to the fighters. How much money does he spend? How many months does he spend in Africa? It is simply inconclusive argument until I know all of the details beyond the optics of it as to how much substance there is behind it. Why don't you post evidence of these things before you start talking about unicorns and rainbows. By the same token, I think I also should believe Trudeau foundation here in Canada does a lot for the poor in the third world country simply because it says so?
Youre playing mental gymnastics. Since you can't even name a single thing that DDP does to give back to Africa , you spin it that "some people don't showboat about what they've done." But then the funny part is you turn around and say that you hear that he's donated a lot of money. If he's done things for Africa, it would be general knowledge and something you can reference. No one knows how much you supposedly donate (a lie like you being an ethnic minority) because no one knows you and you're nobody. DDP is a mainstream figure.
Stick to the point. I was only countering you. Your statement of Dricus not being viewed as African, is discriminatory and is also unacceptable. Dricus said nothing racist. He only highlighted the point because he is the real African based on him staying loyal and fighting for his country rather than leaving it for greener pastures. Regardless of how much Dricus does for others in Africa, you have no right whatsoever to use KKK like language and claim that Dricus is not viewed as African inside Africa. I personally donate a lot of money, but no one outside of my home knows anything about it. Your argument is flawed since you cannot conclusively with evidence show me who does less or who does more for Africa based on the showboating videos you have seen of Usman or Adesanya or Ngannou. That is a nonsense argument.
It's interesting that you want to cry about what adesanya said about DDP but you're totally fine with what DDP said about three men that represent the continent and have done a lot to promote and give back. It's obvious why.
You are a fool. What did Dricus say? He just said he will be the first real African champion who was born, raised and still trains out of Africa. We breathe African air and we wake up in Africa every day. That is all 100% fact and true what he said. There is nothing racist or there is nothing factually incorrect about it. Yes, I do believe him living and training in Africa, makes him represent Africa better 100% I
What Adesanya said, was completely racist claiming Dricus has no right to call himself African implying he is an outsider due to his Dutch heritage.
Dricus is actually used to it. Back years ago, Bahati promoted the fight saying he was the 'King of South Africa' while Dricus was not African. That is, Bahati was a black Londoner while Dricus was fighting out of South Africa. It got so heated that Bahati slapped Dricus in the face during their face off. The crowd rallied behind Dricus in South Africa and Dricus choked Bahati out in less than 1 minute. Parallels with Adesanya are, Adesanya said the same thing about Dricus and all of Australian crowd rallied behind Strickland because of that despite AUS/NZ crowd usually supporting their own fighters.
What Dricus said, was a completely different topic where he simply is highlighting the fact that living and staying in Africa means something as a champion. Dricus only called himself the real African champion based on those criteria. He made no judgmental comments about others. Two completely different undertones and different points of acknowledgement. There is a sacrifice required for someone not want to leave his/her native country for greener pastures with a lot of potential not available in the home country. You could argue till you are blue, but I simply won't ignore that. Your limitation is, your ability to understand the difference between someone taking pride in living and breathing African air while the other saying, hey you have no right to call yourself Africa and you come from somewhere else. They are two completely different things. Adesanya used the KKK language by saying 'I will show you where you are from' and 'you should do a 26 (sic) and me to see where you are from'. That is the same KKK calling Muhammad Ali an African despite him being born and raised in the US. You are wasting my time since I have repeated the difference to you like a dozen of times, but your confirmation bias continues to try to throw them toegther.
For example, I live and was raised in Canada. When I go back to my home country, lots of people always say you are Canadian and that they choose to live and deal with the limitations of things that were available to me that helped me succeed that are not available in an Asian country. I don't get offended and as a matter of fact, I appreciate they choose to live in the country despite having so many limitations to deal with, which I did not/do not have to. Life is much harder over there where things us in the first world taking for granted, are scarcely available over there and result in a struggle that is foreign to us.
