Casuals And This Fight

**Lopez_Boxing** · 11-29-2018, 10:28 AM

Welcome to the American boxing scene.

**NEETzsche** · 11-29-2018, 10:31 AM

In the UK it feels like there's a lot of excitement for it. Maybe it should've been here instead

**SkillspayBills** · 11-29-2018, 10:40 AM

Americans rather support foreigners then their fellow countrymen. It's typical of this country.

**Hatesrats** · 11-29-2018, 10:56 AM

After Wilder KO's Fury an entire sea of bandwagon MoFoz will jump on his tip.

**EasternEuroFan** · 11-29-2018, 11:13 AM

Well Casuals care about name rather than good fights.

That's why AJ can sell a stadium fight out against anybody. They don't care about the fight, they just like Joshua's popularity and celebrity status in the UK.

Same reason Pacquiao is still one of the very biggest names in boxing, probably the biggest active star in boxing. He's more known in the mainstream worldwide than both Canelo and AJ put together. My girlfriend and her family are Korean and don't care about boxing much but they all know Mayweather and Pacauiao and that's all. Nobody else.

That's just the way it is. Put it this way, if you put a boxing match on tomorrow between Jay-Z v Kanye West or a proper fight like Fury v Wilder, there would be no contest in who would sell more.

Most people don't care about boxing. That's why arenas are empty right up until the main event.

**rolshans** · 11-29-2018, 11:22 AM

In Canada too, but I'm going to stream this ish on my laptop.

No way in hell am I going to convince my friends who are casuals to split a PPV, only to watch Fury dance around for 12 rounds and not get hit. That's a damn nightmare.

**Zaryu** · 11-29-2018, 11:53 AM

I don't know why people seem surprised by this. I live in America, I'm on the third state I've resided in, everyone in my workplace is an American, and it's always the same story. None of them follow boxing, they don't know who any of the heavy weight champs, or contenders for that matter, are.

Right now I know one boxing fan, and that's my brother in law who got into boxing way back because of me. Unless fighters reach a Mike Tyson, Mayweather, or Pacquiao level this is the engagement you can expect in America for boxing events.

**juggernaut666** · 11-29-2018, 12:12 PM

The fight had little time to promote itself..it's a reason WHY Hearn wants a fast answer by team Wilder....those guys are incompetent and you see why with this fight so that doesn't help having INCOMPETENT people promoting it...lol

**Boxing Goat** · 11-29-2018, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by CinderelliMan

I am in Canada and I've asked at least 10 of my American gamer friends if they watching the big fight on Saturday. Not one of them know there was a fight this weekend or who was fighting.

3 of them did however say I cant wait for Pacman vs Broner.

You have an American HW champ and no body knows who he is and you have a shell of his prime pacman months out from his fight that people cant wait to see.

Simply put, the bulk of consumers in the US are more into MMA at the moment.

Casuals And This Fight