Once again the crowd and gate sales are being pushed by travelling Brits

[LetOutTheCage]

The Brits love their boxing and have fewer alternate options to spend on...the other being football (nobody watches Cricket any longer).

You're clueless if you believe that, its a myth that Americans seem to to always state and has been disproven countless times...

[Robbie Barrett]

Wilder will have plenty of fans at the fight. Us black folk aren’t the type to sit in line all day for the damn weigh in. Not our style.

I think you're going to be disappointed no free tickets being handed out to Wilder fans this fight.

[Zelda]

What are you going on about https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/...p-f1-wimbledon

This gets said a lot but I dont think its really true. Theres football, rugby league, rugby union, cricket, tennis, snooker, darts, F1, horse racing, athletics etc, plenty of people follow MMA as well, and its a country that land mass wise is smaller than most American states and population wise is like California + Texas.

I don't think some of these sports compete for the same crowd. I am not saying this in a negative way, but some of the crowd in football or boxing matches aren't the typical ladies and gentlemen that will turn up for Tennis or Cricket. Motorsports maybe, but in smaller numbers and F1 is still much smaller than Nascar.

[Robbie Barrett]

The Brits love their boxing and have fewer alternate options to spend on...the other being football (nobody watches Cricket any longer).

Brits spend £20 billion ($26 Billion) on sporting events a year.
Americans spend $56 billion on sporting events.

http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/post-office/pressreleases/uk-sports-fans-spent-over-ps20-billion-last-year-1438275

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/11/amer...ng-events.html


The US has 5 times the population of the UK.

I'll let you work out which countries people spend more.

[Randall Cunning]

I don't think some of these sports compete for the same crowd. I am not saying this in a negative way, but some of the crowd in football or boxing matches aren't the typical ladies and gentlemen that will turn up for Tennis or Cricket. Motorsports maybe, but in smaller numbers and F1 is still much smaller than Nascar.

Our populations not big enough for cricket viewing figures of 8 million out of 66 million not having cross over fanbases

[Goldie]

Fury would have the crowd even if it was all American fans. Most whites, Asians and Latinos will always root for the non black guy vs the black guy regardless of where the people are from.

[Randall Cunning]

Brits are pretty simple folk, if theres sport and alcohol we'll turn up for anything

[Froch_uppercut]

The Brits love their boxing and have fewer alternate options to spend on...the other being football (nobody watches Cricket any longer).

That's not the answer mate. Brits enjoy travelling to sporting events. It's a different passion for sport. Period.

[TMLT87]

I don't think some of these sports compete for the same crowd. I am not saying this in a negative way, but some of the crowd in football or boxing matches aren't the typical ladies and gentlemen that will turn up for Tennis or Cricket.

So what is competing for the boxing crowd in America?

The UFC goes to the UK multiple times a year, London has actually hosted more events than any city outside of Vegas. The UK as a whole has hosted more than any US state outside of Nevada.

When it comes to hard contact non combat sports. The US has American football (which is out of season for long periods of the year) and hockey, the UK has rugby union and rugby league. Yes I am aware than the NFL and NHL are bigger leagues but again, remember that we are talking a land mass the size of a US state, with entire sports leagues crammed into them, not teams, leagues. Plus the NFL plays like 4 regular season games in London every year.

"F1 is still much smaller than Nascar"

Really not sure what you're basing this on. I'd say its the complete opposite outside of America. F1 is the pre eminent motorsports competition globally, its not even close.

[deathofaclown]

That's not the answer mate. Brits enjoy travelling to sporting events. It's a different passion for sport. Period.

I think it comes from Football mentality.

Football fans travel the country every weekend to follow their team. And obviously across Europe if they support champions league teams when they play etc. It’s nothing to see 7000 away fans travel one end of the country to another, to watch a game on a Tuesday night in ****ty weather in Newcastle or wherever. As long as there’s a match and pubs, we go.

I lived in USA for a few years and never encountered it with sports fans there. It’s totally understandable because you have to travel incredible distances sometimes to away games, so it’s not something that huge amounts of people could do week in, week out. I’m sure some do, but not on the same scale. It’s just different and not as easy to do it.

So i think there is a difficult culture in UK regarding travelling to support your team/fighter.