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  • M Bison
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    #21
    Originally posted by JohnP2
    I am fascinated at the new breed of UK boxing fans. I worked in this sport for nearly 20 years, and spent a portion of it in Belfast and London. This is late 80s. Back then the UK fans were great. Your typical hardcore, cigar-smoking, Guinness-drinking, TRUE fan who went to the weekly fights at the local 'leisure centre'.
    Fast forward ~30 years and it has completely changed. My last fight there was Sheffield (Spence vs Brook) and it was mainly the whine and cheese, there to be seen, "hi we want to be the center of attention" type crowd. FEW of them knew their boxing history and it's become more of the "in" thing. London is worse.

    It's natural, I suppose. Their country gets a new superstar, so you all these Zinfandel drinking yuppies, hosting dinner-parties while "the big AJ fight" plays in the background (although most of them have not watched more than a few fights in their lives).

    After a few drinks they start feeling themselves then jump online and thump their chests about how "the UK rules boxing". That's been my experience, anyway.
    That's quite a bit of experience watching the sport then, I can't say I go that far back, but I definitely think the whole brown nosing of athletes probably is by far bigger now than it was then.
    They were treating Joshua as a demigod after the fight and to be honest I think this whole fan support has got to Joshua he seems by far more arrogant and big headed similar to Canelo is a fair thing to say.

    The glorious thing with boxing in this era that we're in right now is NOBODY can outright say a country rules boxing right now because that is just a lie!

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    • stellen
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      #22
      Easily bumsquads. Beyonce says he wants to kill a boxer and they fall over themselves thinking up ways to defend the scumbag clown.

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      • alexguiness
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        #23
        I have to go Canelo. The people who actually believe he is clean are ****** beyond words.

        Wilder was missing, he should make the shortlist as well.

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        • M Bison
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          #24
          Originally posted by alexguiness
          I have to go Canelo. The people who actually believe he is clean are ****** beyond words.

          Wilder was missing, he should make the shortlist as well.
          Yeah, I regret not adding Wilder to my list I fxcked up sorry.

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          • Chrismart
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            #25
            Of late, Wilder fans.

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