Am torn as a Brit living in N America

Fans in the US are more intelligent. They realize the corruption in boxing makes it a fringe sport, while die hard boxing fans lament the latest terrible decision. (I gotta confess I'm a die hard fan :-) Lol at US fans being more intelligent.

Most working class lads try out boxing or some other martial art growing up, judo was popular in my area for some reason, UFC is huge now. As we don’t have guns actual fist fights are probably more common although the young kids have took to stabbing each other lately. Good post, got ya man, thanks.

Calm down, Nigel. My son in law is English now living in the US. Obviously soccer is his main sport by far, but he will watch any sport on TV. Took him to see Spence-Garcia and he had a good time mainly because of the beer. Now I will explain to you why football is "the most popular sport in the world". Its because few malnourished, uncoordinated, poor persons in the third world cant afford the equipment for a proper sport, and because any malnourished, uncoordinated orphan who has zero eye to hand coordination can kick a ball through the mud in his village. The sport requires little physical skills and little strategic brains. (Note: I am not talking about professional athletes in pro leagues). Football is number 1 in South America, Africa, and the Middle East right? How many olympic medals has Brasil won? Or Senegal? Or any other third country where football is "the most popular sport"? Not many. Sports shouldn’t have to cost a fortune to play or to have so many rules that it’s hard to follow. Kicking and controlling a ball with your foot is the most unnatural movement in sport, making it probably the most technical... I do enjoy NFL, basketball is too high scoring and baseball is even more boring than cricket..I’d say that’s a whole world view. When you talk about Olympic medals the US is so huge along with Russia and China that any other nations can’t ever compete head on, how many medals would you have if you split up into 4 regions for example?

I think that is a bit of hyperbole ;0. I do love the EPL though, and the other top European leagues. As I mentioned in another post I think one way of looking at it is this - not really what sports you watch but what sports you play when you're kids. When we are kids in the US, boys play soccer, baseball, basketball and football. To a lesser extent, hockey, tennis, golf, lacrosse, swimming, wrestling, martial arts (karate, etc, not boxing) and 'extreme sprorts' - skateboarding, snowboarding etc. Off the top of my head I can think of a friend who has played one or more of those sports growing up. I can't think of one person I know of as a kid who grew up boxing. I just feel like as kids in the UK, there are probably more kids who get into boxing there, as baseball and football are pretty much non-existent there, and basketball probably not a huge sport there for kids as it is here. Not trying to be argumentative...just feel like the only big sport kids play there is soccer, which as you said is probably huge. And boxing seems to possibly be a secondary sport that some kids there actually get into. Do you know any people who boxed when they were growing up? Most working class lads try out boxing or some other martial art growing up, judo was popular in my area for some reason, UFC is huge now. As we don’t have guns actual fist fights are probably more common although the young kids have took to stabbing each other lately.

Duh, it's the Bell Curve, with 300 million people, we have more idiot fans, but we also have more intelligent ones too. :-)

To be fair we’re probably better sports fans than them add into the fact we’re a small island. But obviously boxing ain’t mainstream here either. We just love sport. We’ll sell out 90,000 stadium for their fancy game of catch and nobody has a f.ucking clue what is happening

Fans in the US are more intelligent. They realize the corruption in boxing makes it a fringe sport, while die hard boxing fans lament the latest terrible decision. (I gotta confess I'm a die hard fan :-) LMAO no, You have some of the most idiotic fans blindly following everything Wilder says, then there was people saying the Cahrlo's where the future

If u hate America so much go back to England, the land of ****ty weather, Bland food, bad teeth, and ugly women u ****ing douchbag. I don't live in America mate. Thankfully.

bLACK AMERICAN, WHO'S GRAND FATHER SERVED, I also served, a black american would know more about racism than YOU. Trumps attorney would KNOW him better thAN YOU! Everyone KNOWS THAT MANS ATTORNEY KNOWS HIM BETTER THAN YOU common sense if common sense doesnt apply to you, of course you cant see the systematic racism

Boxing is clearly bigger here than it is in the states, that’s not what’s being argued. What we get touchy about us when the standard US reply of “ but we have NBA, NFL etc, that’s why it isn’t as big “ Our other sports are just as big, football is huge and Americans will never understand how big it is. Football is bigger than your big 3 combined in the grand scheme of things... but there’s still room for the rest I think that is a bit of hyperbole ;0. I do love the EPL though, and the other top European leagues. As I mentioned in another post I think one way of looking at it is this - not really what sports you watch but what sports you play when you're kids. When we are kids in the US, boys play soccer, baseball, basketball and football. To a lesser extent, hockey, tennis, golf, lacrosse, swimming, wrestling, martial arts (karate, etc, not boxing) and 'extreme sprorts' - skateboarding, snowboarding etc. Off the top of my head I can think of a friend who has played one or more of those sports growing up. I can't think of one person I know of as a kid who grew up boxing. I just feel like as kids in the UK, there are probably more kids who get into boxing there, as baseball and football are pretty much non-existent there, and basketball probably not a huge sport there for kids as it is here. Not trying to be argumentative...just feel like the only big sport kids play there is soccer, which as you said is probably huge. And boxing seems to possibly be a secondary sport that some kids there actually get into. Do you know any people who boxed when they were growing up?

We have football, the most popular sport in the world- as well as all our other sports cricket, rugby etc. You f****ng yanks think the world ends at your borders, the reality is it only begins there. You're a nation of self centered delusional insular twats. I'm almost rooting for Putin and his b***h Trump to grab another term - what used to be a great democracy is now a laughingstock of corruption. If u hate America so much go back to England, the land of ****ty weather, Bland food, bad teeth, and ugly women u ****ing douchbag.

There is no real way to measure it accurately - but it is pretty obvious that boxing is a bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US. Boxing seems to be as big there as any sport other than soccer (whichh I probably watch as much as you do lol). I don't even really think there is any question about it, and to be honest I am not sure why some in the UK are offended by the suggestion. It is obvious. Boxing is clearly bigger here than it is in the states, that’s not what’s being argued. What we get touchy about us when the standard US reply of “ but we have NBA, NFL etc, that’s why it isn’t as big “ Our other sports are just as big, football is huge and Americans will never understand how big it is. Football is bigger than your big 3 combined in the grand scheme of things... but there’s still room for the rest

Fans in the US are more intelligent. They realize the corruption in boxing makes it a fringe sport, while die hard boxing fans lament the latest terrible decision. (I gotta confess I'm a die hard fan :-)

America is more racist than it lets on......they elected someone who said the racists in charlottesville "fine people", his attorney for years (who know him better than YOU) says he'g a racist....this guy is going to jail for him. Dont let the propaganda fool you, read these comments carefully, thats how americans feel.....we are NOT UNITED states:sigh1: That's a lie - if you are going to hate on someone at least get your facts right. He said some of the people who went to that rally were there to protest statues being taken down - whether you like it or not, or agree with it, that was their right and not every person there on the 'right' was a 'Nazi'. And a lot of the people there for the left were from Antifa which is about as bad as you can get; but there were also people there on the left to peacefully protest. And if you don't like it here move somewhere else. There are more 'racist' comments here on this board against whites than vice versa anyway.

I’m not touché it’s just as a brit who never has anyone to talk to about boxing because only a few people know anything about it and most of those only watch the big fights with a British fighter it’s kinda annoying to be told that it’s apparently this big mainstream sport. I hear ya - the thread started out with a Brit in the UK wondering why people weren't as interested in boxing in the US as they are in the UK. I haven't really heard the answer yet to why that is, other than boxing being a bigger sport there (which was basically implied in his original question). Maybe another way to ask why it is a bigger sport - when growing up as kids in the UK, what sports do most kids actually play? In the US, kids play soccer, basketball, football, baseball, softball, tennis, golf. Boxing is just never a sport that kids here play. If anything parents will throw them into karate or another mixed martial art. My assumption is most Brits would know a kid or kids who boxed from a fairly young age. I know 0 people like that here.

We have football, the most popular sport in the world- as well as all our other sports cricket, rugby etc. You f****ng yanks think the world ends at your borders, the reality is it only begins there. You're a nation of self centered delusional insular twats. I'm almost rooting for Putin and his b***h Trump to grab another term - what used to be a great democracy is now a laughingstock of corruption. Well. This thread descended to childish name calling quickly. I remember when this was a boxing forum.

Used to be a lot more popular here in the states but I think greed has ruined it. When I was much younger we watched Thursday night fights and we often had Wide World of Sports on Saturdays with real important fights. That's how boxers became household names and why more people knew and cared about the sport. Start charging money for everytime you want to see a fight and people find something else to do.

So why is boxing so much more popular in the UK than the US? We have 5 times the population and 8 times the GDP as well. Yet boxing is clearly a bigger sport there than it is here, and boxers make better money there, relatively speaking. Not sure why people in the UK are so touchy about all of this lol. It's not even really a debate - boxing is a much bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US. I’m not touché it’s just as a brit who never has anyone to talk to about boxing because only a few people know anything about it and most of those only watch the big fights with a British fighter it’s kinda annoying to be told that it’s apparently this big mainstream sport.

Soccer, Rugby Union, Cricket, Formula 1, Tennis and others. Boxing is a niche sport here in the UK So why is boxing so much more popular in the UK than the US? We have 5 times the population and 8 times the GDP as well. Yet boxing is clearly a bigger sport there than it is here, and boxers make better money there, relatively speaking. Not sure why people in the UK are so touchy about all of this lol. It's not even really a debate - boxing is a much bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US.

Ah not this rubbish again... we have football ( which is bigger than you’ll ever understand), rugby union, rugby league, cricket, F1, snooker, darts, UFC is huge now too...even NFL has a growing following There is no real way to measure it accurately - but it is pretty obvious that boxing is a bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US. Boxing seems to be as big there as any sport other than soccer (which I probably watch as much as you do lol). I don't even really think there is any question about it, and to be honest I am not sure why some in the UK are offended by the suggestion. It is obvious.