Am torn as a Brit living in N America

[Armchairhero]

I think that is a bit of hyperbole ;0. I do love the EPL though, and the other top European leagues.

As I mentioned in another post I think one way of looking at it is this - not really what sports you watch but what sports you play when you're kids. When we are kids in the US, boys play soccer, baseball, basketball and football. To a lesser extent, hockey, tennis, golf, lacrosse, swimming, wrestling, martial arts (karate, etc, not boxing) and 'extreme sprorts' - skateboarding, snowboarding etc.

Off the top of my head I can think of a friend who has played one or more of those sports growing up. I can't think of one person I know of as a kid who grew up boxing.

I just feel like as kids in the UK, there are probably more kids who get into boxing there, as baseball and football are pretty much non-existent there, and basketball probably not a huge sport there for kids as it is here.

Not trying to be argumentative...just feel like the only big sport kids play there is soccer, which as you said is probably huge. And boxing seems to possibly be a secondary sport that some kids there actually get into.

Do you know any people who boxed when they were growing up?

Most working class lads try out boxing or some other martial art growing up, judo was popular in my area for some reason, UFC is huge now.
As we don’t have guns actual fist fights are probably more common although the young kids have took to stabbing each other lately.

[Armchairhero]

Calm down, Nigel.

My son in law is English now living in the US. Obviously soccer is his main sport by far, but he will watch any sport on TV. Took him to see Spence-Garcia and he had a good time mainly because of the beer.

Now I will explain to you why football is "the most popular sport in the world". Its because few malnourished, uncoordinated, poor persons in the third world cant afford the equipment for a proper sport, and because any malnourished, uncoordinated orphan who has zero eye to hand coordination can kick a ball through the mud in his village. The sport requires little physical skills and little strategic brains. (Note: I am not talking about professional athletes in pro leagues).

Football is number 1 in South America, Africa, and the Middle East right? How many olympic medals has Brasil won? Or Senegal? Or any other third country where football is "the most popular sport"? Not many.

Sports shouldn’t have to cost a fortune to play or to have so many rules that it’s hard to follow.
Kicking and controlling a ball with your foot is the most unnatural movement in sport, making it probably the most technical...
I do enjoy NFL, basketball is too high scoring and baseball is even more boring than cricket..I’d say that’s a whole world view.
When you talk about Olympic medals the US is so huge along with Russia and China that any other nations can’t ever compete head on, how many medals would you have if you split up into 4 regions for
example?

[Mooshashi]

Sports shouldn’t have to cost a fortune to play or to have so many rules that it’s hard to follow.
Kicking and controlling a ball with your foot is the most unnatural movement in sport, making it probably the most technical...
I do enjoy NFL, basketball is too high scoring and baseball is even more boring than cricket..I’d say that’s a whole world view.
When you talk about Olympic medals the US is so huge along with Russia and China that any other nations can’t ever compete head on, how many medals would you have if you split up into 4 regions for
example?

Most non Americans do not realize that US football can be played with no equipment other than a football. Thats how most of us play...you touch the runner he is "tackled". Or you play "flag" football where you grab a piece of fabric velcroed to a belt. So US football should appeal to malnourished 3rd world kids.

Problem is that the game is still physical, more than soccer, requires more physical skills ( eye to hand coordination, throwing the ball), and has actual play by play strategy. So that would rule it out for most kids.

Nothing is more boring than cricket...fyi I played on an industry team in the UK long ago. But certainly watching baseball on TV is brutal even if you understand yhe game.

[Boxing_1013]

Most working class lads try out boxing or some other martial art growing up, judo was popular in my area for some reason, UFC is huge now.
As we don’t have guns actual fist fights are probably more common although the young kids have took to stabbing each other lately.

Good post, got ya man, thanks.

[15 Rounds again]

Fans in the US are more intelligent. They realize the corruption in boxing makes it a fringe sport, while die hard boxing fans lament the latest terrible decision. (I gotta confess I'm a die hard fan :-)

Lol at US fans being more intelligent.