cold187 wrote:SenorPipino wrote:If European heavyweight boxing is here to stay, complete with the mundane Pulevs, Povetkins, Prices, Glazkovs, Charrs, Ustinovs. et. al, then boxing will truly die in the U.S.
Nobody here wants to see these guys, nobody cares about them. They're all interchangeable. No excitement, no charisma.
People, not just hardcore boxing fans, cared about the sport back in the 90s.
It will wither and eventually perish if the current hierarchy remains.
A Wilder victory is imperative Saturday if the sport is to survive.
^^^ this was the reason
WHITE!!!. that's the worst thing as he will have NO FOLLOWING LOL (outside the aryan brotherhood) but they'll be in jail>
>>cold187
You brought color into it. It has nothing to do with color but everything to do with chauvinism. The original meaning of "chauvinism" is exaggerated and aggressive patriotism. As an American, I confess we have too much of that. When I was in Europe, it was very easy to find US baseball scores in European newspapers. Try finding European football scores in an American paper!
It's not color because few Americans talk or care about Kell Brooks, Anthony Joshua, or even Lennox Lewis. We want Americans! The great white hope mania that gripped America in the 70s and 80s covered Quarry and Cooney, not Bugner or Chuvalo. I'm not defending America here; not by a longshot, just telling it the way it is. If Wilder was white, he'd be a bigger name in America.
The Pulves, Povetkins, Prices, Glazkovs, Charrs, Ustinovs, are all limited. None of those names will be a Klitschko or Lewis. The only European HW that I can think of that could be big in America is Tyson Fury. He is culturally Western and talks smack which we like. If Joshua ends up as great, he won't have a huge following here. I'll follow him cause I'm a boxing fan, but I'm in the minority. Most of my fellow Americans are into UFC, NFL, NBA and NASCAR which I loath.