Twitter hype critics should be made to do a few rounds with the fighters they’re trolling, according to Thomas Carty.
The heavyweight from Dublin is not a fan of social media neighbors or keyboard warriors and thinks they should back up their words in the ring with fighters they question or abuse, or at least have. to share their opinions face to face.
“If you put an opinion like that on Twitter, you should go somewhere and back it up against the person you made the comment against. Would they show up? No, they wouldn’t,” he tells Irish-boxing.com.
“I can watch a TV show there, Twitter Trolls.”
Carty was only half-joking when it came to professional boxers fighting laymen, but he was serious about his disdain for harsh or vile critics on social media.
The Dillian Whyte-managed fighter has taken particular offense to those who have questioned former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua after his loss to Oleksandr Usyk.
The Pascal Collins-trained southpaw, who helped the English fighter prepare for his two fights with the Ukrainian, cannot understand how Joshua’s credentials can be questioned.
An impassioned Carty points out that Joshua being a world champion is proof of his class and argues that losing to an elite operator shouldn’t tarnish his reputation.
“People say ‘overtraining’ this and things about Joshua. They don’t know anything about boxing,” he said before Usyk’s most recent win over the Briton.
“I see a lot online, people say that Joshua has no heart. Any boxer who steps into the ring has a heart. It’s very easy for people on social media to say ‘he doesn’t have a head anymore’ or ‘he doesn’t have a heart’ or ‘he doesn’t have that killer instinct’. People don’t know what he’s talking about.
“Boxing is not easy. If you are not up to it, it is very difficult to do that walk to the ring, it is very difficult to do the training, ”he adds before making a soccer analogy to amplify his point.
“People don’t realize this is Champions League boxing, if someone loses a Champions League final, is that bullshit? No, so why in boxing if someone loses in a world title fight, why do people jump on the bandwagon and call that fighter shit, is that outrageous?
