Why is HW boxing only relevant when an U.S. American is Champion?

[Fetta]

American HW or not I'm getting excited for the HW division

[-PBP-]

Only in America. Go overseas to a Wlad fight and its full.

[SalimShady1212]

Cause havyweight sells. The US is the Mecca of boxing and they will support their guy and that guy being a heavyweight opens up room for potentially a lot of money to be made. The same reason why AJ is being marketed like Crazy. Wlad make like 20 mill a fighter because although envious Americans call him boring, he's an icon in Germany and Eastern Europe.

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Schleming, Johannson, and the Klitchkos are the only non american HW's that were worth a damn and even they aren't even that good p4p historically

lmao this idiot ^^

[W1Y1E]

Co sign!Lmao!!!
I watch boxing no matter the weight class,had high hopes for Bermaime and Arreola.
Like both Klitschos,there just hasn't been many heavyweight bouts televised on my channels,Hbo&Showtime.
At that weightclass I'm looking for more exciting bouts.Cause generally speaking 1 punch could end the fight quicker than the other classes.Plus the fighters stamina winds down faster.Generally speaking of course.

[lefthook2daliva]

I dispute the relevance of the question.

[JJRod]

The lack of American HW's is because of the lost of interest in boxing by the athletes with potential most have taken up baseball and football instead. As for wladimir and Vitaly not getting any support over here is simple they became boring, earlier on when they first came on the scene the bias boxing folks like Larry Merchant and HBO execs were excited about them till they realized the guys were not American and therefore couldn't sell them to the American public as the great white hopes. Because whether you accept it or not boxing is a nationalist sport.

baseball? you mean basketball?

[DeadLikeMe]

Klitschko fights look electric over in Germany. I'd love to go to one over there someday.

[Fantasiabruja]

baseball? you mean basketball?

I meant Baseball, those guys are big. Basketball players are generally too tall for boxing. IMO

[SeekDaGreat]

Nothing against Klit or Lewis. But they were not exciting like Ali, Holmes, Frazier, Tyson, Holyfield.

Do you see where I'm going with this?