I have to go Canelo. The people who actually believe he is clean are stupid beyond words.
Wilder was missing, he should make the shortlist as well.
Yeah, I regret not adding Wilder to my list I fxcked up sorry.
I am fascinated at the new breed of UK boxing fans. I worked in this sport for nearly 20 years, and spent a portion of it in Belfast and London. This is late 80s. Back then the UK fans were great. Your typical hardcore, cigar-smoking, Guinness-drinking, TRUE fan who went to the weekly fights at the local 'leisure centre'.
Fast forward ~30 years and it has completely changed. My last fight there was Sheffield (Spence vs Brook) and it was mainly the whine and cheese, there to be seen, "hi we want to be the center of attention" type crowd. FEW of them knew their boxing history and it's become more of the "in" thing. London is worse.
It's natural, I suppose. Their country gets a new superstar, so you all these Zinfandel drinking yuppies, hosting dinner-parties while "the big AJ fight" plays in the background (although most of them have not watched more than a few fights in their lives).
After a few drinks they start feeling themselves then jump online and thump their chests about how "the UK rules boxing". That's been my experience, anyway.
That's quite a bit of experience watching the sport then, I can't say I go that far back, but I definitely think the whole brown nosing of athletes probably is by far bigger now than it was then.
They were treating Joshua as a demigod after the fight and to be honest I think this whole fan support has got to Joshua he seems by far more arrogant and big headed similar to Canelo is a fair thing to say.
The glorious thing with boxing in this era that we're in right now is NOBODY can outright say a country rules boxing right now because that is just a lie!
I am fascinated at the new breed of UK boxing fans. I worked in this sport for nearly 20 years, and spent a portion of it in Belfast and London. This is late 80s. Back then the UK fans were great. Your typical hardcore, cigar-smoking, Guinness-drinking, TRUE fan who went to the weekly fights at the local 'leisure centre'.
Fast forward ~30 years and it has completely changed. My last fight there was Sheffield (Spence vs Brook) and it was mainly the whine and cheese, there to be seen, "hi we want to be the center of attention" type crowd. FEW of them knew their boxing history and it's become more of the "in" thing. London is worse.
It's natural, I suppose. Their country gets a new superstar, so you all these Zinfandel drinking yuppies, hosting dinner-parties while "the big AJ fight" plays in the background (although most of them have not watched more than a few fights in their lives).
After a few drinks they start feeling themselves then jump online and thump their chests about how "the UK rules boxing". That's been my experience, anyway.
Do you think I missed out any options?
Canelo is a good shout because loads of people in media and pros are protecting him, but Joshua has an absolute incredible amount of fans saying some rather questionable stuff.
I would say Wilder but come to think about it he has no fans. Dude couldn’t draw flies to sh it
Two scorecards from last nights' fight in Wales had it 118-110 JOSHUA in front of 80,000 drunken Brits who had BOOED THE NEW ZEALAND AND SAMOAN NATIONAL ANTHEMS.
End of thread.
True, that was absolutely shocking behavior!
Don't think Eddie said a single word about that either lol.
Wilder
The fact you as a stupid yanky doodle would make a thread like this shows you are self
Projecting
Pathetic
American boxing fans have sunk so low
What was said above, 80k drunken Joshua fans booing a damn national anthem :lol1:
So we can add the fact they are delusional, disrespectful, and bitter.
Tyson Fury was bang on the money when he was talking about AJ :boxing:
Wilder
The fact you as a stupid yanky doodle would make a thread like this shows you are self
Projecting
Pathetic
American boxing fans have sunk so low
Juicin J has the worst fanbase. not even close.
they're worse than Pacfarts of 2009-2015.
the Juicin J brigade justifies corrupt judges and criminal refs. they pretend to enjoy a stink fest just because their guy won. AJ has had TWO stink fests in a row.
they call their guy a master boxer when he didn't land a meaningful punch against a guy who wasn't even tryina hit him.
the Pacfarts always wanted their guy to face the best. but the Juicin J gang dont want their guy to face their biggest threat.
its a landslide.
Almost every fanbase is annoying because they totally ignore objectivity and blindly follow their guy or team. The comments section on ESPN after a Warriors or Cavs or Alabama football game is almost identical to NSB posts. People either love their squad or absolutely hate them. Same thing here.
Absolutely, and it goes with politics too. We find something we can get behind and defend it almost blindly. I think it's just part of human nature. It does makes sports but more exciting so I'm not complaining too much
Every fan base can be annoying but this is sports and it's natural. Wilder and Joshua fans have been out in full force lately going crazy so I'd have to pick one of them
Almost every fanbase is annoying because they totally ignore objectivity and blindly follow their guy or team. The comments section on ESPN after a Warriors or Cavs or Alabama football game is almost identical to NSB posts. People either love their squad or absolutely hate them. Same thing here.
Every fan base can be annoying but this is sports and it's natural. Wilder and Joshua fans have been out in full force lately going crazy so I'd have to pick one of them
team bum squad and its seriously not even close. the worst thing is they dont even like him as a fighter they just want an american heavyweight champ sooooo bad.
Yeah I thought I should have added the best fanbase to the poll, how do I edit it?
Canelo and it's not even close.
Do you think I missed out any options?
Canelo is a good shout because loads of people in media and pros are protecting him, but Joshua has an absolute incredible amount of fans saying some rather questionable stuff.