I honestly don't know if a American HW can still regain mainstream status like in the past.
Lewis-Tyson was the last mainstream fight that I remember from America.. People today think that 'Mayweather-Cotto' and Pac-Marquez' is 'mainstream' because it got some publicity.
Lewis-Tyson dwarfed those fights in terms of publicity and hype, but even than in 2002 the heavyweights was dying and that was pretty much a 'last of the mohicans ' thing
I think the gap has become too large in terms of public interest. Plus you have so many other sports now competing at it's peak in America. NBA and NFL being just two of many.
The sheer marketability factor might be missing now.
Lewis-Tyson was the last mainstream fight that I remember from America.. People today think that 'Mayweather-Cotto' and Pac-Marquez' is 'mainstream' because it got some publicity.
Lewis-Tyson dwarfed those fights in terms of publicity and hype, but even than in 2002 the heavyweights was dying and that was pretty much a 'last of the mohicans ' thing
I think the gap has become too large in terms of public interest. Plus you have so many other sports now competing at it's peak in America. NBA and NFL being just two of many.
The sheer marketability factor might be missing now.
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