I did this thread less than a year ago and Im reposting it for Glover, who insists US boxing is no longer relevant. This content is protected
United States 36. How many of those 36 are Mexican American, and full Mexican as far as culture goes?
I agree the US still has alot of top guys, I think the argument can be made "that it is not what it once was." In that regard, but it is still very much ahead, I don't know how that will change......I still believe, that boxing will be here for a while. The reason is this, Boxing as whole may be decreasing in popularity comparative to what it once was. But with the growing number of the Latinos here in the states, who tend to be a disproportionate number of boxing fans and enthusiastic s will offset it.
Andre Ward Floyd Mayweather Adrien Broner Timothy Bradley Devon Alexander Mikey Garcia Leo Santa Cruz Austin Trout US is doing alright.
All fighters were born in America. And of course its not the same because more countries now compete professionally. But it still doesn't change the fact.
Up to i would say about 15 years ago, boxing was much bigger in the United States and The United States was much bigger in boxing. Back than you had to fight in the U. S. to be a star. Don't get me wrong there have always been great boxers from other conturies, but to be taken serously you had to com to the U.S. More spefecily fight at Madison Square Garden, Atlantic City or Las Vegas. Now things have changed. The popularity of boxing in the U. S. has platoed in the last 15 years. Around the time Don King stopped being the #1 or #2 boxing promoter. I'm not sure this is an acadent. Say what you want about him, and there are more bad things to say about King. However even though Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya/Richard Schaefer can but together great fights. They and prehapps no one can sell a fight like Don King. MMA has risen in popularity in that time. There's probbly more MMA gyms around you than boxing gyms. Some MMA gyms might offer some boxing instruction, but they focus on prepareing their fighters more on MMA and Muhy Thi than they do in boxing. It's easier to get yourself or your kids into MMA than it is boxing in the U.S.. It's also easier to get them into other sports. Basketball, football, baseball and even soccer than it is to get them into boxing. Yes this takes from the talent pool. Than again for every linebacker who might have been heavyweight champion there is an american heavyweight who might have been a great linebacker. It works both ways. In Europe they have soccer which someone will no doubt correct me by telling me it's football (yea whatever it's soccer), and that what ever you call it. That in the rest of the world the sport is more popular than basketball, football and baseball combined is in the U.S.. I'm not sure this is the case, or how it can be proved or disproved. Also basketball has in the last 20 years grown in popularity outside of America. While the popularity of boxing has not really grown in the U.S.. It's clear that it has grown in Europe. Now days there might be more money in coming to the U.S., than there is in staying in Europe. However, because the sport is growing and therefore the talent pool in Europe. A Eurpan Boxer can stay in Europe draw American boxers to him, because there are more and more big fights and real money to be made in Euroope. In the Amatures/Olympics the U.S. suffers more so because we relay mostly on guys not old enough to leagaly drink in our country. Guys who are still devloping their skills, While The rest of the world seemes to be taking a page from the Cubans and old Soviets and sending boxers who are often in their mid 20's and in their primes. Boxing isn't dieing in America. It is growing faster in other places.
