Boxing is dead in the USA. uk is the new Mecca.

I know you Brits like to think that but that's just wishful thinking. You gents have come a long way in bringing fighters with real skills to the table but as for being the Mecca of boxing. No way.

not until the brits learn how to brush their few remaining teeth! :fingersx: :lol1: :lol1:

90K http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article10325291.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/Anthony-Joshua-v-Wladimir-Klitschko-Wembley-Stadium.jpg Ohhhh @anthonyfjoshua �� #JoshuaKlitschko pic.twitter.com/i8j6F7dsvY— Matchroom Boxing (@MatchroomBoxing) April 29, 2017 Anybody even trying to debate that? While here in the States everything is so divisive and racially driven which is pushing casual fans away! Happy for the UK they DESERVE to be the mecca of BOXING!

How can it not be dead when the top fighters are only fighting once a year? It's ridiculous.

Like boxing, badminton originated in the UK, IIRC. It was exported to Asia during the early 20th century.

I agree, the number 1 indicator is that the top promoter in boxing, Eddie Hearn, is from the UK

I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US.Badminton is HUGE in Asia. I suspect the viewership in China alone matches any of the top major team sports in the US.

not until the brits learn how to brush their few remaining teeth! :fingersx:

Joshua was truly mainstream for the UK. Prior to the fight, every single mainstream newspaper(the equivalent of the NEW YORK TIMES, CHICAGO, LA ETC ETC) was reporting it as a focal story. Now it's even bigger. One of the big reasons for this is the lack of competition in the sporting World in the UK. In the UK and Europe, it's just football (soccer) and than 10 tiers below will be the rest of the sports. England don't even have basketball. So it's a lot easier for boxing to achieve #2 status and generate attention. Easier to share the pie when it's just football. At this stage in the USA, the competition is way too much for boxing to ever thrive again. NFL/MLB/NBA/UFC/MMA etc etc. Just not going to happen. Boxing in the UK is experiencing a good period but it's not the #2 sport. Rugby Union, Formula 1, Tennis, Athletics, Cricket as well as football are all bigger in viewership & revenue in general. And while they might not be PPV, they are mostly (apart from Wimbledon) all now behind the Sky/BT paywall which is pretty damn expensive. Boxing is some way off but Joshua, Fury, Froch etc. have gone some way to improving the health of the sport in recent years and it'll start doing even better.

http://sporteology.com/top-10-most-popular-sports-in-america/ I should have sourced that post, my bad. I didn't exactly research the subject, that was just my first hit. I'm not familiar with sporteology.com they could easily be well off. I didn't check the date, nor did I vet the article. just some lazy c/p from the first hit on a search. I think it's kinda funny you take issue with soccer and tennis but not badminton. I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US. I expect extreme sports to be a top ten, but apparently the US likes grandpa sports more....****ing badminton I honestly don't even know what that is lol.. America watches poker as a sport too

In the name of interests our top ten sports: 1, football 2, baseball 3, basketball 4, hockey 5, soccer 6, tennis 7, golf 8, pro wrestling 9, races 10, badminton. ....****ing badminton out ranks boxing in the US. So sad. Actually NBA is ontop right now with NFL slightly behindit followed by UFC, baseball fell off years ago.. and I would put boxing right after hockey cause no one in the US cares for soccer and tennis and golf are just there.

I was in turkey the week of the fight and every bar and restaurant had signs up that they were showing the fight.. I couldn't beleive how big this fight was worldwide. And Bot did it live upto expectations

Las Vegas is still the most important boxing city in the world. More world ranked fighters travel there to fight than any other city including London. I have not checked but I think the USA is the home of more world champions than any other country. That is partly due to USA boxers but also because great fighters like Kovalev, GGG and Lara move to the states to help their boxing career. Very few top boxers relocate to England.

It definitely is dead, boxing is huge in the UK and will always be huge in Mexico but in the USA its dead, mostly because of xenophobic haters like in this forum and people only accustomed to safety first boring pillow punchers and biased "fans" who dont support real fighters or dont support their fighters at all, all they do is hate other fighters and cry on social media.

dont worry, once wilder drills his ass deep then america will have the heavyweight crown once again