Even if you don’t care about boxing. On sports network ESPN’s their “analysts” Chris Broussard and Skip Bayless discusses comments by former boxer Bernard Hopkins that Manny Pacquiao does not want to fight African American fighters. Broussard then decides to break down “race.” Especially that of the only black fighter ever faced by Pacquiao, the Ghanaian Joshua Clotty. (Pacquiao beat up Clotty.) Watch. Seriously.
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