Comments Thread For: Hearn: Hard for Joshua to Leave UK When He Draws 90,000 Fans

[filup79]

Lets be real, Joshua is a European champion. He is selling out 90k stadiums but come on, the UK has a population of 60 million with no football, no baseball or basketball to compete with boxing or soccer. Joshua wouldn't even sell out a 10k arena in the USA because nobody knows who he is.

[ultravividscene]

Boxing is King in England but 9th rANKED IN aMERICA.

Is there some kind of regional block in place for folk that stops them checking 'facts' before spouting their ignorance to the entire world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_the_United_Kingdom#Popularity

[BWC]

But he could potentially get bigger gates and bigger paydays in Vegas with site fees.

Pathetic excuse..

[Butch.McRae]

Is there some kind of regional block in place for folk that stops them checking 'facts' before spouting their ignorance to the entire world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_...dom#Popularity

Unfortunately people don't care about reality around here. The major difference is how the sport is packaged and delivered to fans. Premium cable, ESPN, the shift from written press, and transient communities has greatly shifted interest in boxing in the US.

While these changes were happening you had promoters like Arum and King doing nothing to reposition the sport to keep up with the times. One is a former prosecutor and the other a straight up criminal (both prone to be extremely risk adverse) who aren't forward thinking business people. Instead of trying to be innovative and proactive, they relegated the sport to basically two premium networks and PPV (mostly to save on advertising and PR expenses) that slowly killed the boxing audience. In the mid to late 90s, boxing was still very much a part of daily sports talk. Now? If it's not Mayweather, good luck getting any fighter talked about in mass media. There's like 2 or 3 people (i.e. Kellerman) who mention boxing on large media platforms.

One large part of the UFC is marketing. They spend on marketing and PR. Boxing promoters don't doing any of that. And I'm not talking about TV ads. Those make little impact on today's US audience, unless it's a movie trailer.

[Fabes88]

Neither was Andre Ward but we know who got their ass whooped.

You're playing this game with the wrong guy my g. I don't like fighters based on their nationality in fact Andre Ward made me a lot of money in the super 6

[P4Pdunny]

You have 164 posts talking about 3,2,1 lmao. Foh alt

You insulting me cos i dont sit around on a forum. Be quiet

[P4Pdunny]

Oh definitely the fight would happen, IMO this is the only fight that could generate good money for them if built up properly. Bigger fights doesnt just happen in 3 months, you need a good 6 months to build it up and am sure with the right build up the fight would happen next year.

Do i think Joshua is scared lol no fucking way, why? because they are competitors. Thats what they do, and i don't think hearn (Who i really dislike) is messing up his "rep" at all.

The A-side is the only side you can accuse of ducking a fight, you can never accuse the B-side unless they talk themselves into a fight and then backed off it.

Why i say hearn doing that, cos Hearn imo don’t want this fight. He’s hoping Whyte can eliminate Wilder from the picture as he knows Whyte can’t trouble AJ.

[Raggamuffin]

You insulting me cos i dont sit around on a forum. Be quiet

Yes you do alt lmao.

[Raggamuffin]

All those fights happened where they were because that's where the most money was offered. You really think Ali said "Ive always fancied fighting in the Phillipines". Rumble in the Jungle, the dictator put up the money for the fight to happen there. Noones gunna fight outside their own country unless its for more money.

Joshua/Wilder happens in the UK at the moment, it makes the most money there. Few things happen and it can easily switch to the US by the end of the year, Joshua has to fight someone else in the US first, and Wilder has to fight in the UK.

I don't know what any fighters think. I just know that Ali WENT to Zaire and Manila. Joshua doesn't have to fight Wilder in the US. He just has to fight Wilder period.

[Mr.Fantastic]

Wilder fanboys in 3..2..1

Same fanboys that turn around and criticize Golovkin for not taking challenges.