Am torn as a Brit living in N America

[Armchairhero]

You have boxing and soccer.

We have basketball, football, baseball, and then also hockey, golf, tennis and soccer to a lesser extent.

Boxing is just not a mainstream sport here like it is in the UK.

Ah not this rubbish again... we have football ( which is bigger than you’ll ever understand), rugby union, rugby league, cricket, F1, snooker, darts, UFC is huge now too...even NFL has a growing following

[TheBigLug]

Americans are more individualistic. Probably not something you're used to do it bothers you not to have a herd to blend into.

Strange, I found it to be the opppsite, having lived in both UK and USA.

Anyway I think it’s basically because Boxing is not really a mainstream sport and the population is so vast, so it’s not likely you’re going to get a load of boxing fans in the same place, they’re more spread out.

[Boxing_1013]

In England rugby,cricket, horse racing, tennis and f1 more popular. We just have some fighters that are extremely popular. The difference is because we are passionate and really get behind our top stars especially the ones that do well. It’s really not a case of us having much else to do. Boxing barely gets any coverage in national papers. Maybe they’ll talk about it twice a week at best

I hear ya - I think it's kind of hard to say what is more popular in a way - and I definitely think boxing is right there as a second sport behind soccer in the UK. It is probably on par with those others you mentioned imo.

I just know it seems like even the British level fighters you guys have over there are very popular, relative to how it is in the US. And then you have to ask yourself why are some fighters there, as you admitted, really popular - well it is because boxing is a bigger sport there.

You guys do seem to have more white fighters who do well there, which probably helps the mostly white public get behind them.

But you guys also seem to support non-white fighters pretty heavily - Brook, Khan, AJ, Lennox Lewis etc all come to mind. And a lot of times those are your biggest stars.

Also - there is no way a Groves-Froch type fight, with US fighters, does as well here as it did in the UK. I think all of this is evidence that boxing is just a bigger, more popular sport in the UK than it is here in the US. Not sure why that is such a controversial thing to say.

From an outside perspective it just seems like boxing is a main line sport now in the UK and Mexico...and a secondary or tertiary sport in the US.

[Boxing_1013]

Ah not this rubbish again... we have football ( which is bigger than you’ll ever understand), rugby union, rugby league, cricket, F1, snooker, darts, UFC is huge now too...even NFL has a growing following

There is no real way to measure it accurately - but it is pretty obvious that boxing is a bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US. Boxing seems to be as big there as any sport other than soccer (which I probably watch as much as you do lol).

I don't even really think there is any question about it, and to be honest I am not sure why some in the UK are offended by the suggestion. It is obvious.

[Boxing_1013]

Soccer, Rugby Union, Cricket, Formula 1, Tennis and others. Boxing is a niche sport here in the UK

So why is boxing so much more popular in the UK than the US?

We have 5 times the population and 8 times the GDP as well. Yet boxing is clearly a bigger sport there than it is here, and boxers make better money there, relatively speaking.

Not sure why people in the UK are so touchy about all of this lol. It's not even really a debate - boxing is a much bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US.

[Mushroom]

So why is boxing so much more popular in the UK than the US?

We have 5 times the population and 8 times the GDP as well. Yet boxing is clearly a bigger sport there than it is here, and boxers make better money there, relatively speaking.

Not sure why people in the UK are so touchy about all of this lol. It's not even really a debate - boxing is a much bigger sport in the UK than it is in the US.

I’m not touché it’s just as a brit who never has anyone to talk to about boxing because only a few people know anything about it and most of those only watch the big fights with a British fighter it’s kinda annoying to be told that it’s apparently this big mainstream sport.

[4truth]

Used to be a lot more popular here in the states but I think greed has ruined it. When I was much younger we watched Thursday night fights and we often had Wide World of Sports on Saturdays with real important fights. That's how boxers became household names and why more people knew and cared about the sport. Start charging money for everytime you want to see a fight and people find something else to do.

[redmish]

We have football, the most popular sport in the world- as well as all our other sports cricket, rugby etc. You f****ng yanks think the world ends at your borders, the reality is it only begins there. You're a nation of self centered delusional insular twats. I'm almost rooting for ***** and his b***h Trump to grab another term - what used to be a great democracy is now a laughingstock of corruption.

Well. This thread descended to childish name calling quickly. I remember when this was a boxing forum.

[Boxing_1013]

I’m not touché it’s just as a brit who never has anyone to talk to about boxing because only a few people know anything about it and most of those only watch the big fights with a British fighter it’s kinda annoying to be told that it’s apparently this big mainstream sport.

I hear ya - the thread started out with a Brit in the UK wondering why people weren't as interested in boxing in the US as they are in the UK.

I haven't really heard the answer yet to why that is, other than boxing being a bigger sport there (which was basically implied in his original question).

Maybe another way to ask why it is a bigger sport - when growing up as kids in the UK, what sports do most kids actually play? In the US, kids play soccer, basketball, football, baseball, softball, tennis, golf. Boxing is just never a sport that kids here play. If anything parents will throw them into karate or another mixed martial art.

My assumption is most Brits would know a kid or kids who boxed from a fairly young age. I know 0 people like that here.

[Boxing_1013]

America is more racist than it lets on......they elected someone who said the racists in charlottesville "fine people", his attorney for years (who know him better than YOU) says he'g a racist....this guy is going to jail for him. Dont let the propaganda fool you, read these comments carefully, thats how americans feel.....we are NOT UNITED states

That's a lie - if you are going to hate on someone at least get your facts right. He said some of the people who went to that rally were there to protest statues being taken down - whether you like it or not, or agree with it, that was their right and not every person there on the 'right' was a '****'. And a lot of the people there for the left were from Antifa which is about as bad as you can get; but there were also people there on the left to peacefully protest.

And if you don't like it here move somewhere else. There are more 'racist' comments here on this board against whites than vice versa anyway.