Comments Thread For: Wilder: Joshua is Not Worldwide, Nobody Knows His Name in U.S.

[champion4ever]

At least Anthony Joshua is known and does have a loyal casual fan base in the U.K. However, the very same cannot be said about Deontay Wilder in the U.S.

[SteveM]

I guess it's hard for Americans to see boxing thriving anywhere but here. I'm sometimes guilty of that thinking myself. As long as the fight happens I don't care if it's here or in the UK at this point.

I spent 4 years of my life in various parts of the States. You guys are so friendly for the most part but so insular as well. Everything is US-centric for most Americans. Those Americans who have gotten out and travelled tend to mellow.

I could name at least 5/6 countries where boxing does better domestically than in the States > Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Poland,

not saying fighters make more money in all those countries but boxing has less competition in those countries than in the States so a HW champ like Wilder would be a huge star in those countries (not that its happening in Japan or Mexico)

[Outwest Exp 355]

Less than 1 Mio in such a big country like the U.S. is indeed laughable. When the Klitschkos were active then 10 Mio people in Germany tuned in although both are not German.

And during that same time HBO had kicked Wlad to the curb and wasn’t even on US TV. It takes time to break through in the US. It took Floyd 10 years to break through. We aren’t as thirsty as the European countries.

[dazzo16]

Everyone follows the path trodden by floyd

He started he all roads phrase

[Boksfan]

Nobody knows your name in US either,
Beyonce. HW boxing does not exist there, we all know that. It's because there was no good HW champion from America in many years.

[JULIEN44]

That bum is already affected by some brain degeneration.

[Boksfan]

And during that same time HBO had kicked Wlad to the curb and wasn’t even on US TV. It takes time to break through in the US. It took Floyd 10 years to break through. We aren’t as thirsty as the European countries.

When you lie you lie big time, why not

[SN!PER]

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[thack]

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Nobody know who Anthony be.

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Even if Wilder didn't exist A.j. would still be making $27 million a fight!

[Jsmooth9876]

Wilder has defended his world championship on free network TV multiple times, garnering millions of viewers.

Wilder stars in a very popular cable TV reality show.

Wilder is clearly far more well known in this country than AJ is. Just as AJ is far more well known in his country.

The idea that nobody knows Wilder in the US is pretty silly considering his history as a strong ratings draw. Wilder's knockout of Stiverne went viral and helped make him far more well known as well.

I'm willing to guess anyone who knows who Wilder is also knows who JOSHUA is. If you follow heavyweight boxing you can't not know the two of them.
Wilder is certainly no household name here in the US like Joshua is in the UK