Euro's Are A Joke!

[Guest]

Judging by the amount of people who watched Manfredo in America, then clearly Americans do care.

Show me the ratings from HBO for this fight. Only boxing fans watched this. It was on in the middle of the day...

[Left2body]

WTF???its kesslers promoter thats ****in up the deal

Dude, its not the Euro fighters that are the main problem its Frank Warren. Frank Warren kills boxing careers.

Calz didn't face a champion until roughly his 40th fight (Lacy)
Hatton didn't face a champion until roughly his 40th fight (Tzu)

WTF is that about? Warren is horrible.

[me2007]

Show me the ratings from HBO for this fight. Only boxing fans watched this. It was on in the middle of the day...

You show me them.

[Guest]

Dude, its not the Euro fighters that are the main problem its Frank Warren. Frank Warren kills boxing careers.

Calz didn't face a champion until roughly his 40th fight (Lacy)
Hatton didn't face a champion until roughly his 40th fight (Tzu)

WTF is that about? Warren is horrible.

If Warren is so bad, why don't they drop him and find another promoter? They obviously approve of getting paid to fight bum after bum their entire career...

[Left2body]

If Warren is so bad, why don't they drop him and find another promoter? They obviously approve of getting paid to fight bum after bum their entire career...

Well Hatton did finally drop Warren. I'm not saying that the boxers shouldn't take some of the flak for there fights but I see it being more a managerial trend than specificly Euro or British trend.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I hate to say this but there is a permiating opinion here in the U.S about athletes from Europe. Not just in boxing but in all sports where we encounter European athletes.

I will give you an example, Charles Barkley said during the Golden State vs Dallas NBA series how Dirk Nowitski played that "soft European game". That he didn't like contact and deferred to other players in crunch time.

Also, Teddy Atlas once said that in Europe, it's common for a fighter or his corner to throw in the towel or just quit in his corner. Whereas in the States or Latin America, there is a never say die attitude that gets fighters killed or seriously injured.

Now I'm not saying I buy into it, I'm just repeating what I hear on the streets here in the US and those are just two examples of many I have heard from the general public. I think the way American view soccer has alot ot do with it. The way soccer players get kicked and writhe in pain for 10 minutes, then magically jump up as if nothing was wrong with them. That would be unnacceptable in American sports. I personally love soccer and understand the mentality of it but most Americans don't.

[Guest]

I hate to say this but there is a permiating opinion here in the U.S about athletes from Europe. Not just in boxing but in all sports where we encounter European athletes.

I will give you an example, Charles Barkley said during the Golden State vs Dallas NBA series how Dirk Nowitski played that "soft European game". That he didn't like contact and deferred to other players in crunch time.

Also, Teddy Atlas once said that in Europe, it's common for a fighter or his corner to throw in the towel or just quit in his corner. Whereas in the States or Latin America, there is a never say die attitude that gets fighters killed or seriously injured.

Now I'm not saying I buy into it, I'm just repeating what I hear on the streets here in the US and those are just two examples of many I have heard from the general public. I think the way American view soccer has alot ot do with it. The way soccer players get kicked and writhe in pain for 10 minutes, then magically jump up as if nothing was wrong with them. That would be unnacceptable in American sports. I personally love soccer and understand the mentality of it but most Americans don't.

Yeah, I think a lot of people feel this way. Klitschko got a lot of heat for quitting on his stool against Byrd...