America - Only place on Earth who accept foreign fighters like theirs?

[Rubber Ducky]

America has big immigrant populations so it's not surprising they take fighters in from other countries and treat them as their own.

Loads of Mexican/Americans in the US, Spanish is basically the 2nd language of American, so Mexican fighters like Canelo, Chavez etc will always find a home in the US.

There are of course big Polish, Irish, Italian communities as well so fighters like Golota, McGregor and Gatti had a built in nationalistic fan base in the USA.

And as others have said Germany too which has a diverse and large population of migrants also welcomes fighters from other nations. DM was polish but was once one of the most popular fighters in Germany, the Klitschko's are Ukranian and were huge stars in Germany selling out big stadiums regularly.

Ireland took in Mike Perez for some reason. Australia had Tszyu who was Russian, Canada had Bute who was Romanian. New Zealand has taken in many fighters from the Polynesian Islands and made them their own. So the idea that America is the only country that does this is simply not true.

[Rubber Ducky]

Americans don't even support US fighters. Ward is treated like a child abuser on here. Floyds treated no better and wilder begs americans to get behind him. Support your own first.

Being a black boxer in the US now it's always going to be hard to become a big star. The demographics of boxing in the US has changed, black Americans are watching Basketball and NFL instead, they've abandoned boxing unfortunately.

[TheUntouchable]

Universum treated GGG badly & favoured their onw fighters like Sturm, who was ducking GGG & paying to WBA to avoid him. So GGG had to leave Germany & go to US, the land of opportunities.

Europe is defo NO in most of the cases. US is the answer!

Okay this shows me you didn't even want to have a discussion. You're clearly just a troll and not open for other's opinions or thoughts.

[W1LL]

Canada steals other countries fighters. They are a lot more intense than America. Adonis Stevenson, Jean Pascal, Joachim Alcine, Lennox Lewis, Lucien Bute, Arturo Gatti, Razor Ruddock to name a few. There's also several South Americans they have adopted and will pass off as Canadian in a couple more years.

[Madison Boxing]

I don't know, the slick brother nation are pretty hostile towards them. They haven't exactly welcomed golovkin and lomachenko with open arms

[Citizen Koba]

And in the real world..
Universum box' shutdown was public the 30th of April 2010.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100503120441/http://www.ftd.de/sport/:kein-tv-vertrag-universum-boxstall-angeknockt/50108150.html

"Der auslaufende Fernsehvertrag mit dem ZDF führt bei der Hamburger Universum Box-Promotion zu drastischen Maßnahmen. Den 15 Mitarbeitern im Verwaltungsbereich ist zum 31. Juli gekündigt worden. Die Zukunft ist ungewiss."

"The failed television-promotion with ZDF has drastic changes for Universum. The 15 administrative workers are cancelled per 31th of July. The future is unknown."


GGG went to USA in May

Also if America is so much better explain Don King and how he treated the fighters.

Well. Universum did treat GGG like **** - at least in Golovkin's version of events - he was very vocal in his criticism of them for blocking potential fights with their bigger stars Sturm and Zbik. Also when he tried to leave they tied him up in court with an injunction that prevented him fighting in the US or Germany until mid-2012. However. This in no way (to me at least) proves the point that Germans are less accepting of foreign boxers than their US counterparts, merely that boxing promoters are corrupt greedy fuckers who'll screw anyone for some green.

[A-Wolf]

Germany comes to mind. Abraham, Sturm, Klitschkos, Huck, Krasniqi to name a few, none of them were born in Germany as far as I know. Heck, even Charr, Teper, Hammer, list goes on.

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[#1Assassin]

Universum treated GGG badly & favoured their onw fighters like Sturm, who was ducking GGG & paying to WBA to avoid him. So GGG had to leave Germany & go to US, the land of opportunities.

Europe is defo NO in most of the cases. US is the answer!

sturm isnt german either though, he is bosnian. most of germanys stars arent german..

the klitschkos, Abraham, huck, hernandez, sturm as mentioned and others. germany treats foreign fighters far better than america does imo. they rip of fighters not under their promotional banners more, but they are more willing to sign and promote foreigners and once on the team they get treated better.

that said all countries support their own fighters more. the west has more money to offer fighters and hense more fighters go there. but they dont get treated better, worse if anything (generally speaking). by promotions and fans alike.

you do have linares going to japan, Walters fighting out of panama and a few other examples. often times they still have to leave those places to actually compete though. but linares was a big star in japan.

if you look at mma during the pride days, foreign fighters who went there almost unanimously say they were better received by the public and the organization than in the states. often even american fighters. many fighters to this day compete in asian promotions despite the money being worse just because of the love they receive. mark hunt for instance is leaving the ufc after his contract is up to compete globally, in part because of his beef with the company, but also because he enjoys competing in front of fans in other parts of the world.

[Robbie Barrett]

US had bigger promoters with deeper pockets. Keep putting a fighter on TV in any country and he will gain fans.

America being a massive country with large groups of people from every nation also helps.

[paulf]

Ever heard of Germany?