Basic Trope: Black boxers are portrayed as thuggish, arrogant brutes.
- Straight: Tyrone "The Slugger of the Slums" Cassius is a scary, angry bruiser with a mean streak who constantly chases white women, kills people in the ring with no remorse, has No Indoor Voice, a meteoric right hand, and proudly bears the colors of his country, either some African country or the USA.
- Exaggerated: Tyrone is pretty much The Dreaded who takes pleasure in the constant abundance of white women and the constant fear of the white men around him.
- Downplayed: Tyrell "Moneymaker" Cassius, the son of Tyrone, is more of a modern day variant of the trope, being a successful boxer who has everything but the respect of the people. He's not overtly antagonistic, and he just wants a Worthy Opponent to fight.
- Justified: Growing up in the slums for Tyrone, especially as a black kid, has forged him into a powerhouse.
- Inverted:
- It's not Tyrone that's the brutish, loutish, antagonistic bully; It's Flash "The Coney Island Crusher" Young, a Japanese youth who has a Hair-Trigger Temper, No Indoor Voice, a comically huge pompadour, and a nuclear left hand.
- Tyrone is actually a quiet, affable, yet utterly ruthless boxer who just does what his boss Paul Dyson tells him to do.
- James "The Northerner Knockout Artist" Whitaker is a scary, angry brawler who constantly chases black women, kills people in the ring with no remorse, a meteoric right hand, and proudly bears the colors of his country, either some European country or the USA.
- Subverted: It seems that Tyrone would be another Scary Black Man, but he's not all that bad.
- Double Subverted: Just wait until you see him in the ring.
- Parodied:
- Tyrone is never seen without his signature cigar (that he promptly eats), is constantly having a white woman (obviously from a cuckolded white husband) on his dick, perpetually Trash Talking every opponent he meets (even against someone decisively stronger than him, like Flash), and is pretty much what happens when you let the parodied Scary Black Man loose in the ring.
- "Tyrone" is actually the promoter's pet gorilla let loose in the ring. Saying that this is some kind of sick joke is honestly an understatement.
- Zig-Zagged: Tyrone is a Mood-Swinger who swings from Cavalier Competitor to Jerk Jock.
- Averted: Tyrone is an average boxer.
- Enforced:
- This is what happens when you put a Scary Black Man in the ring.
- As a parody/homage to Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Apollo Creed, and other famous black boxers.
- Lampshaded: "I'm the mystery, the dark un-fuckin'-known! The nigga who fucks up the hoods, the nigga who fucks all yo' white women an' makes fatherless, pissed off gangsta's! I'm the mud-buildin', spear chuckin', darkest of Africas, an' I! CAN'T! BE! BEAT!"
- Invoked: Paul Dyson trains Tyrone to become more and more of a hot-headed bruiser.
- Exploited: People begin betting on Tyrone more and more, making money off his success.
- Defied: Paul Dyson refuses to get any heat on Tyrone in fear that he may be taken away for being so flamboyant and arrogant, instead inverting the stereotype into a more quiet and reserved boxer who's strictly professional.
- Discussed: "Guys like Tyrone are exactly why people never bet on the white guy." "Ah, but when the Japanese guy comes around, bet on him instead."
- Conversed: "Christ... Another racist stereotype, I see?"
- Deconstructed: Tyrone's very, very questionable attitude and appearance pretty much never gets him anywhere; He's considered too much of a cringe-worthy stereotype to even be considered for a promotion. And that's not to mention how both conservatives who loath everything about his blackness and liberals who are outraged at such an old, outdated stereotype decide to put their differences aside and bash Tyrone for his caricatured demeanor.
Back t' the main page, an' don't call me a Black Boxer Stereotype or sum'n like dat, Fool!
