Biggest Mayweather Wannabe to come out of the UK?

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  1. mithffg

    mithffg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I don't think the cocky bad boy act works in this country as well as it does in the u.s.

    I can recall maybe only naz hamed and possibly eubank who was more bizarre than bad guy to be fair but people ended up taking to him anyway.

    It's usually young black londoners who take this approach i find who are heavily inspired by the whole mtv slick/rapper/baggy trousered/mayweather thing but it just doesn't go down as well here.

    Degale tried it when he first turned pro and someone obviously had a word with him as it was pissing everyone off and having a negative effect on his career and soon after the groves loss he had to take a much more humble approach.

    Despite that the british public never really took to him.

    O'hara davies is another example.

    Released from his contract and forced to make numerous apologies.

    If you're going to do it you need to be

    1) exceptionally good.

    2) funny/a good talker/charismatic (tyson fury for example£
    3)original and different (hamed eubank).

    Original is deffo not what most of these fellas are.
     
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  2. DreamItBelieveItGetKOd

    DreamItBelieveItGetKOd New Member banned Full Member

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    I wouldn't be surprised if Yarde and Tunde start beating up women and open a stripclub.. they are huge Mayweather begs
     
  3. EJC83

    EJC83 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ohara Davies is the first name that springs to mind, Eubank jnr too. I see a lot of young boxers on Insta who seem a little self obsessed and look like they're taking the Mayweather approach but, as said earlier, you've got to be an exceptionally good boxer to pull it off.

    It will never work in the UK, people hate that kind of thing here, rightly so too.
     
  4. CathyBarry

    CathyBarry Active Member Full Member

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    No you're wrong it was the people around Selby that called him that, not Selby himself.
     
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  5. Furious

    Furious Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think Fury uses elements of Mayweather's persona. Supreme self confidence bordering on arrogance, outspoken but backs it up.
     
  6. Furey

    Furey EST & REG 2009 Full Member

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    Fury will answer a straight question. Mayweather will skirt around the question and give some rehearsed speech.
     
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  7. Jacko

    Jacko Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ashley Theophane.
     
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  8. micker1

    micker1 Member Full Member

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    Yes possibly I just remember Welsh Mayweather. It usually is the people around the actual fighter that talk the most. Hyping the fighter up.
     
  9. EJC83

    EJC83 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Selby, in his prime, had similarities, I'll give him that, if he was a young black Londoner people would have bought into the idea of him being the 'Croydon Mayweather' or whatever after he beat Stephen Smith and later Won the IBF.
     
  10. Rolling Session

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  11. Jamzy ⭐

    Jamzy ⭐ Active Member Full Member

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    Prince Patel could be considered. Maybe.
     
  12. OffTheHook

    OffTheHook offthehook banned Full Member

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    Chris Eubank Sr on his son Jr

    ''You’ve got people you aspire to be like. He picked Floyd Mayweather Jr because he shows the bling, he shows the planes, the shoes, the money. He shows the girls, he’s got clubs. I admire the man, he’s a brilliant and fabulous fighter. I admire him as a fighter. As a man, don’t talk to me about him...Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali — they’re men. They lead by example. You’re teaching my boy to be a bling bling kid, he’s looking up to you, Mr. Mayweather. No.''

    “And so that’s why he didn’t listen. And now the world is looking at him as though he’s a greedy little pig and I tried to keep him away from that, but he wouldn’t listen. And you can’t hear, you gon’ feel.”
     
  13. Murderers' Row

    Murderers' Row Boxing Addict Full Member

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    100% this.
     
  14. Bob Flaps

    Bob Flaps Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Definitely Ohara. Got found out big time, the Taylor fight was a gem.
     
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  15. Plumber From Liverpool

    Plumber From Liverpool Active Member Full Member

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    I remember Davies giving it Billy big balls routine about what he was going to do Josh Taylor and then got smashed.