From the 1960s to the 1990s there was a false consciousness perpetuated by the Leftist and Jewish-controlled media regarding the alleged superiority of the Negro boxer. Results seemingly supported this, and social factors were ignored. European training methods and facilities were well behind the times in comparison to those of America, and boxing was well-funded in the inner city areas dominated by Negro demographics by both governmental and private "philanthropy". In spite of this, there was still a steady stream of White European world boxing champions from Britain like Ken Buchanan, Barry McGuigan, Terry Marsh and Alan Minter (who sadly died last year). Many Western European countries also disprivileged boxing as a sport as politics moved to the Left and therefore away from traditional forms of masculinity - although there was a definite double standard when it came to non-White males. Boxing clubs were closed in Britain's industrial towns, but funded in the inner cities, while the sport was banned in countries like Sweden. Of course, half of Europe's boxers were denied the chance to compete in the professional ranks because of the Iron Curtain. The Hungarian Olympic gold medalist Laszlo Papp managed to sneak over to Austria to compete as a professional and go unbeaten in 29 fights before the communist authories put a stop to his career right before his world title bout in 1964.
Last Saturday's headline heavyweight boxing event at Madison Square saw a huge upset. The press have exaggerated its magnitude, but it was certainly a bigger upset than Lewis vs McCall, perhaps as big as Lewis vs Rahman on paper (but which was expected by those who realised Lewis had undertrained), but not as big as Tyson vs Douglas. Nonetheless, Anthony Joshua's loss to squat, fat Hispanic Andy Ruiz will go down as one of the great shock results of heavyweight boxing. After Ruiz got up from a solid uppercut square on the chin in round three, Joshua found himself suddenly tasting the canvas and was on the back foot from there on in, being put down with ease several times before the referee waved it off in the seventh round. Joshua half-heartedly protested that he was fit to continue, but the vacant look in his eyes, of a man who didn't quite know where he was, who had lost any ability to defend himself and who had already spat out his gumshield in resignation, told a different story. As a White European, I watched this bout as a neutral, but the politics behind the fight were as interesting as the match itself and certainly more relevant in a sport that has always been heavily politicised.
The weekend before last saw an interesting boxing encounter, as much for what went on beyond the ring as the match in it. The two fighters could not have been more different: Tony Bellew, a loud-mouthed trash-talking mulatto born in Liverpool, and Oleksandr Usyk, a well-spoken Ukrainian and Olympic gold-medalist who has criticised the conflict between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in the Crimea in true nationalist terms:
I don't differentiate between our peoples. We're the Slavic people, let's just say that.
This is in spite of pressure from Ukrainian MP Vitaly Kupry, who, after Usyk's victory against Murat Gassiev in Moscow, berated Usyk for fighting in Russia, for not demanding the 'return' of the Crimea to the Ukraine and for sportingly hugging Gassiev after easily winning the contest. Basically, Usyk was berated for not getting involved in petty nationalist politics, of country above race.
