British School of Boxing Lagging Behind the Americas

[ShoulderRoll]

Lol @ Lennox being Canadian. He moved there at ****ing 12 years old for ****s sake.

When did he start boxing?

[Robbie Barrett]

Britain has the best boxers in the world. FACT.

"B...b...b...but P4P though." That's fantasy guys.

[TMLT87]

When did he start boxing?

So if I move to China and take up ping pong tomorrow i'll become Chinese?

[Lance98]

What's with these nationality arguments? There are many great boxers worldwide who have trained in their native countries and made it big in the US and the world. This is not a US vs britain only thing. Grow up...

[ShoulderRoll]

So if I move to China and take up ping pong tomorrow i'll become Chinese?

If you learn ping pong from the Chinese you can't say that you represent British ping pong, can you?

[TMLT87]

If you learn ping pong from the Chinese you can't say that you represent British ping pong, can you?

Well if you're British, yeah you kind of do, by default, regardless of where you learnt it from. If nationality of athletes was based on who taught them things would be a complete cluster****.

Anyway, its funny because you know that had Lennox been born in Canada and left when for the UK when he was a teenager it'd be "hes Canadian, he was born and raised there" from the same people saying hes Canadian now. Theres just this weird urge for some people to make Lennox not British. Ive seen something similar with Fury recently too, "he fights and trains in America, you Brits never accepted him"

[ShoulderRoll]

Well if you're British, yeah you kind of do, by default, regardless of where you learnt it from. If nationality of athletes was based on who taught them things would be a complete cluster****.

Your nationality would still be British.

But you couldn't say that you represent the British school of ping pong.

[GrandpaBernard]

What's with these nationality arguments? There are many great boxers worldwide who have trained in their native countries and made it big in the US and the world. This is not as US vs britain only thing. Grow up...

The AmericaS include Mexico and parts of Latin America too

It isn’t just the US

Mexicans give Brits a hard time also

[Idunnoshet]

Brook isn’t exactly one of the best brits? So a really bad example to compare. In addition to that - america should be far better than the UK, the size of America is what in comparison to the uk? If you can’t find talent to be better than Britain that you really aren’t doing very well. The UK punches well above its weight (see what I did there?)

I do give Alot of credit to the U.K for the good talent they turn out and the Passion of the fans.
The U.S is way bigger than the U.K. But from what I've seen and heard boxing is way more popular in the U.K.
So I figure with that popularity you get more young athletes wanting to participate in boxing tournaments / shows.
Which would produce better Professional boxers.

[Kezzer]

I do give Alot of credit to the U.K for the good talent they turn out and the Passion of the fans.
The U.S is way bigger than the U.K. But from what I've seen and heard boxing is way more popular in the U.K.
So I figure with that popularity you get more young athletes wanting to participate in boxing tournaments / shows.
Which would produce better Professional boxers.

You would probably be surprised really, boxing isn’t really very common at all at grass roots. Like America, we have many sports more popular - and that also is partially because it’s socially more acceptable from a young age of course.

At the very top end boxing has become one of the more popular in recent years but that has to go down to Eddie Hearn for a huge credit in that. In particular the way he turned round characters like Carl froch who were barely known into a ppv star; turned Joshua from zero to one of the two biggest stars in boxing, etc.

It may well flow through in future years - who knows, there is usually a lag affect of 10-15 years with this sort of thing but we’ll see.