Who is the biggest star in world boxing currently?

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  1. alangjk

    alangjk Active Member Full Member

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    Came in thinking either Joshua, Canelo or Pacman. Can see that is quite a popular opinion. :p
     
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  2. BoxingIntegrity119715

    BoxingIntegrity119715 Super Full Member

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    Canelo, Pacquiao and Joshua but in terms of worldwide recognition it pacquiao
     
  3. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    Canelo, followed by Pac and AJ
    By some distance too
     
  4. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    AJ is far more known to the genral public in the UK than Whyte is.
     
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  5. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    Yes Mark
    Ive not said otherwise
     
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  6. pistal47

    pistal47 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Unfortunately it's Canelo.
     
  7. bluebird

    bluebird Boxing Addict Full Member

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    AJ or Canelo #1
    I think Wilder and Fury are fast approach World stars now too.
    Lomachenko after that.
     
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  8. Fluffy Bear

    Fluffy Bear New Member Full Member

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    Depends on how you define 'biggest star'. I would go with Canelo overall, taking into account level of hype and publicity (as well as the revenue) his fights generate.

    AJ is next or on a par, given the huge financials and ease with which he fills football stadiums. From a UK perspective, it's definitely AJ - he is probably the only currently active boxer known to the mainstream and which most non-boxing fans would be able to name or recognise over here. Even huge non-boxing fan Mrs Bear knows who he is (probably from a red sofa appearance on one of our chat shows).
     
  9. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Manny isn`t known by the average person where I live in the UK but he was mentioned in a question on a popular quiz show here as has AJ obviously, but they would never bother asking a trivia question involving Canelo`s name cause most Brit`s wouldn`t get the answer right.
     
  10. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    No Wilder isn`t known much by the general public here where I live in the UK but he did get on the front page of a national newspaper here after it was stated that he flirted with a soccer player who plays for Man city, the city player is more famous here than Wilder due to the popularity of soccer here in the UK. Loma is largely unknown in the UK aside from boxing fans.
     
  11. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Based on the number of young women at the Ryan Garcia fight I'd say Garcia. When you get WOMEN to tune in to boxing matches, you've nearly doubled your audience. Reminded me of DLH's prime; lots of Latinas around.
    I'd like to know how many followers on social media Pac, Canelo, Wilder, AJ, Fury have as compared to Garcia. I have no idea, but I bet he's got a whole lot of them beat.
     
  12. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Willy Munroe Jr.
     
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  13. iestyn999

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    i wonder whose fights get watched the most around the world the actual number.
    One of the highest has to be Murata, yes is very insular but in japan alone he was getting about 14 million views
     
  14. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    DLH was far more famous than Garcia is, look at his PPV viewing figures.
     
  15. FrankinDallas

    FrankinDallas Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Certainly, but at this point in his career....20 yrs old?