Joshua's popularity seems to have gone up a lot.

[soul_survivor]

Yeah true, but a lot of money was put into sports in the run up to the Olympics that Im not sure would have been there if not for the Olympics

The increased funding for the boxing scene came in 2004 following Khan's success. 2012 was not an indicator of anything. It's irrelevant to the point being made here.

[W1LL]

Fickle fat Yanks probably.

[Buckfever]

Stepping up will do that. If Wilder steps up I suspect the same would happen.

[j0zef]

I like using Google Trends to come up with a view of a fighter's popularity. Take a look:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-04-10%202017-05-10&q=%2Fm%2F065z6wp,%2Fm%2F0h7p34w,%2Fm%2F07rsdm,%2Fm%2F05wnz0

[BWC]

Well in the US it's pretty much on its last legs.

Not sure what you mean. By nearly every conceivable metric boxing is at its best place in the States in 20 years

[Kigali]

Fickle fat Yanks probably.

Fat yanks???

Look at Tyson Fury

He looks like he ate a fat yank

[Kigali]

Stepping up will do that. If Wilder steps up I suspect the same would happen.

How did Joshua step up???

Fighting 41 y/o coming off a LOSS and year layoff ain't stepping up.

Let's see AJ step to Wilder.

[NahMean]

While he’s massive in the UK.. He’s still very much only a UK star. Canelo is a Mexican star but because Mexico has a population that dwarfs UK, right now Canelo is known by more people and that’s because even if everyone in the UK knows AJ.. the UKs population is the same as just one state in America.. Its tiny in the grand scheme of things.

He’s big in Europe and Dubai and is slowly branching out to the US, he’s appearing on ads there now. Because he’s a heavyweight that speaks the part, looks the part and KO everybody.. its only time before he becomes worldwide superstar. He went from 800k twitter followers to 1.1 million just after the fight with Vlad.. He’s surpassed Canelo in terms of followers in just one day.

[Kigali]

While he’s massive in the UK.. He’s still very much only a UK star. Canelo is a Mexican star but because Mexico has a population that dwarfs UK, right now Canelo is known by more people and that’s because even if everyone in the UK knows AJ.. the UKs population is the same as just one state in America.. Its tiny in the grand scheme of things.

He’s big in Europe and Dubai and is slowly branching out to the US, he’s appearing on ads there now. Because he’s a heavyweight that speaks the part, looks the part and KO everybody.. its only time before he becomes worldwide superstar. He went from 800k twitter followers to 1.1 million just after the fight with Vlad.. He’s surpassed Canelo in terms of followers in just one day.

This guy is the Bruce Lee of nutthugging.

[NahMean]

this guy is the bruce lee of nutthugging.

i just stated the obvious. You're just butt hurt that no1 cares about your boy friend wilder.

You live on this site lol defending him even though no1 cares about him. Uk is running the show and it hurts you inside lol