List who you think are the top 10 biggest money drawing fighters in UK & Republic of Ireland boxing today. Or write your disagreements with my list. Basically the A-side boxers. Boxers who can draw a love/hate/intrigued crowd on their own merit. Nothing to do with a fighters accomplishments. Just their pure money making appeal to lets face it, the general fan. Your list can include fighters who are 'retired' but would realistically have another fight. 1, Conor McGregor 2, Antony Joshua 3, David Haye 4, Amir Khan 5, Tyson Fury 6, Kell brook 7, Eubank jr 8, George Groves 9, Carl Frampton 10, Tony Belew 11, James Degale At the last second I decided to add Conor McGregor to the list as he has just got a boxing licence. Think he will earn more than any of our boxers even if he fights a complete bum. I left Degale on the end so i had a top 10 list of boxers.
De Gale was fighting in leisure centers before going to America. Someone like Ricky Burns might be a bigger draw than him.
Degale hasn't fought here for so long we have no idea what his drawing power is like. Fury couldn't sell tickets for the Wlad fight. Number 5 is too high!
For me biggest draws in boxing would be cant they sell out the arena without any undercard. Which would leave in no order Frampton, AJ, Warrington, maybes Brook, Khan, Haye. Cant think of any others of the top of my head.
ufc isn't really watched that much here... Brook, AJ, Khan, Haye only names that should be uk ppv fighters right now. Frampton isn't well known by casuals really.
Do you mean if you put them anywhere in the U.K. mate? In the right fight, a lot of domestic level boxers can fill their local arenas. Arnfield vs Rose will be a big arena seller in Blackpool but they wouldn't fill a leisure centre in Croydon.
Higher than any fight on Sky/Box nation/ ITV and Channel 5 if i recall correctly. A genuine big fight on fta could still do numbers.
We'll see how packed the arena is for the Bellew fight. That's a semi-respectable fight, even if many people think it's a mismatch. Bellew is a cruiser world champion and a character up for a fight. Yes, I believe Haye's probably one of the country's biggest draws but I suspect he can't get away with many shabby fights any more.
Joshua, Haye, Frampton all have huge support/interest in their fights. Others like Crolla and Warrington have respectable hardcore followings. I think Khan has been fighting in the US way too long now, he is not as popular as he likes to think he is.