Should boxers who don't speak English learn English if they fight in the U.S.?

[fanofslug]

I don't think speaking English helps a boxer's popularity. Whatever language you speak your personality comes through and your body language is what people pay most attention to. If Kovalev hadn't spoken a word of English after his Pascal fighter you could still understand what he was all about through his mannerisms (middle finger at Stevenson). A boxer can really fluent, but if they are boring they are boring.

[elina jhon]

yeah! but Do fans really care? Are fans seriously less likely to watch a fighter who can't speak English???

[Weltschmerz]

Guys like Felix Trinidad, Marcos Maidana, Ricardo Mayorga, Ruslan Provodnikov, Lucas Matthysse, etc. refused to learn English even though they all had extensive careers in the United States.

Let me clarify, these boxers get rich in America. A boxer is not busy when a fight isn't scheduled; meaning there is an abundant amount of downtime to learn English.

Learning English is not difficult. These guys simply refuse to learn. It's arrogance. I have been learning Spanish for less than a month and I have learned a considerable amount in, like, two weeks.

Soy serio. Ingles es mi primero idioma y soy un hombre de Estados Unidos pero soy un principiante de Espanol -- mi segundo idioma. Lo intento. Mi gusto boxeo. Boxeo es una grande parte de mi vida. Boxedors hablando Ingles a pelear en America.

My Spanish is pretty garbage but it just goes to show learning a new language is not an insurmountable undertaking! Dueces.

Lmao, this is how much English Chino Maidana knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIyPyTOrRw

Spanish is an easy language too, though. Without having ever studied the language in depth, I understood all of you wrote there.

But yes, they should learn English, I think it's mostly the latin American fighters who are reluctant, as Spanish is a huge language in the US too. The Eastern Euro and Russian fighters I think do want to speak English, but it is in fact more difficult for them to get the hang of it.

[HeThaTruth]

Black Americans speak English.

Are you ******ed?

Most latinos speak Spanish so what's your point

[HeThaTruth]

Spanish is an easy language too, though. Without having ever studied the language in depth, I understood all of you wrote there.

But yes, they should learn English, I think it's mostly the latin American fighters who are reluctant, as Spanish is a huge language in the US too. The Eastern Euro and Russian fighters I think do want to speak English, but it is in fact more difficult for them to get the hang of it.

You know these guys don't even speak Spanish very well right

[Nubia]

Most latinos speak Spanish so what's your point

My point is they should learn English if they plan on fighting in the US for the remaining part of their careers.

[Weltschmerz]

You know these guys don't even speak Spanish very well right

Boxers are not necessarily the brightest bunch.

[Dip_Slide]

If you're not gonna be able to be understable in a foreign language then u should speak ur own language and use an interperter, I find GGG's Interviews painful to watch cuz most of the time I don't understand what he's trying to say.

With that being said u MUST be able to understand a certain level of English especially if u live in an English speaking country, this reduces the conversation time by half if you're using an interpreter.

[soul_survivor]

There shouldn't be any necessity to learn English, a lot of these guys go and train in the US, they fight there and then go back to their homes in whatever country they originate from. They are not residing in the US in many cases, not permanently any way, so learning English as a mean of living is not a necessity for them.

However, in terms of their careers, it could be beneficial and they would probably appear on more talk shows and have a better chance of connecting with a wider audience but that is not always the case and again, there isn't a necessity here. For example, Barrera, Morales, Pacquiao and Marquez, just to name a few, became not only bankable boxing stars and some of the biggest names of their time but also bankable box office stars, based on no or very limited English.

Of course, most of these names had a built in, ethnic fan base but they also built their careers on fighting and BEATING the best. Names like Maidana and Matthysse are more famous for their losses than their wins. If they had better wins under their belt, they would undoubtedly be bigger stars, regardless of the language barrier.

[Dr Rumack]

'Can't compete for a world title unless they learn our language'



Yeah ok.