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  • Jamie harris
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    Best supported boxer

    Ricky Hatton was the most supported boxer in the history of boxing. I went to Manchester for the lazcano fight and and all the pubs were packed singing Hatton songs. The city was on fire. He fought at the etihad in front of 60,000 biggest post war audience before Frisch v groves. The atmosphere was better than any American could achieve. Against may weather it was us Brits that made the event. Who else comes remotely close?
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    #2
    Originally posted by Jamie harris
    Ricky Hatton was the most supported boxer in the history of boxing. I went to Manchester for the lazcano fight and and all the pubs were packed singing Hatton songs. The city was on fire. He fought at the etihad in front of 60,000 biggest post war audience before Frisch v groves. The atmosphere was better than any American could achieve. Against may weather it was us Brits that made the event. Who else comes remotely close?
    Arturo Gatti in Atlantic City, NJ. He didn't draw 60k people out for a fight, but his audience rode with him, win or lose, until he was done with the sport (and likely would've loved him for well long after, were it not for what happened)

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    • Madison Boxing
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      • yngwie
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        You wouldn't find a fighter as supported as Muhammad Ali, but Joe Louis in the rematch against Schmeling had is his whole country on his shoulders as well as Schmeling, Jack Dempsey could draw million dollar gates back in the 20's and hundreds of thousands were filling the seats in his fights, Chavez filled the Azteca against Haugen, Tyson was very popular back in the day, he's even popular today, Oscar Dela Hoya was probably the most followed teenager in the history of boxing.

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        • -Freddy-
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          #5
          Originally posted by Jamie harris
          Ricky Hatton was the most supported boxer in the history of boxing. I went to Manchester for the lazcano fight and and all the pubs were packed singing Hatton songs. The city was on fire. He fought at the etihad in front of 60,000 biggest post war audience before Frisch v groves. The atmosphere was better than any American could achieve. Against may weather it was us Brits that made the event. Who else comes remotely close?
          You're Sunspace and you're from Puerto Rico.

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