I am curious about this as well, an interesting topic. All I can think of off the top of my head is Ricky Hatton, did awesome numbers vs Mayweather. But May pretty much became a PPV Colossus after the DLH fight, so no surprise there. I guess the Klitchkos never go PPV? It does appear as if PPVs don't even exist in Europe, they seem to get all that for free
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Has there ever been a European who's a PPV star worldwide?
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Originally posted by taansend View PostSorry Mate, but I DO count Lewis. He's a West Ham fan. No one would put themselves through that without good reason.
But back on topic I suppose Ricky Hatton was the closest thing.
Before PPV Georges Carpentier was a mega star. His bout against Jack Dempsey had whole newspapers previewing the bout even going so far to say Georges would win because of the shape of his head!!!
Maybe Jimmy Wilde too.
Anyway, the answer is probably only Lennox. And maybe Ricky.
Henry Cooper was a 3 time Lonsdale belt winner and more, then Len Harvey, and Bombardier Wells was the man on the J Arthur Rank org movie intro who struck the big gong with the long mallet. Terrific build.
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Originally posted by FeatherFists View PostAmerica don't have PPV stars outside of the USA. We get your ppv tv for free lol
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Originally posted by Roman Moreno View PostYea U.K gets damn near all their fights except for a couple exceptions for free. Yea sucks I know, F the U.K for that n
The only true world wide PPV star was Mike Tyson.
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Originally posted by Fists_of_Fury View PostI don't count Lennox Lewis since even he doesn't know who he actually fought for. He fought for Canada in the Olympics. So I'm wondering if there actually is anyone beside Lennox.
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