is germany taking over as boxing capital of the world

Its like Lamon Brewster and John Skully said, in Germany a guy like Timo Hoffman can be a superstar, in USA only one or two fighters of American descent are superstars.

One of the main reasons Germany has such passion for boxing is because there are no bogus pay per views over there.

 

Germany sells lots of tickets and is becoming the Capitol, not doubt about it.

 

nope. selling tickets does not assure germany being the boxing capital. you have to consider the history of it all, and as bert sugar asserts, "boxing history is what separates it from other sports." sorry internationals, but the u.s is the capital of boxing, please believe.

 

fighting in the usa if you are among the worlds top 20 brings you more money than fighting in any other country.

but at this moment in time USA BOXING is only ahead in money terms.

audience/tv share /crowds it has dropped behind germany in terms of marketing and making there fighters famous.

i mean chad dawson struggles to get 200 of his own fans to a fight despite being in the worlds top 10 and fighting out of america.

bernard hopkins fanbase is small and limited.

mayweather without a big name along side him to draw in fans is struggling to fill an arena.

if boxing was taken to the regions in america, i beleive it would help american boxing and boxers increase there marketabilty.

instead promoters fight in deserts and casinos /want all there fights on PPV and as a result about 1 in every 1000 americans now watches boxing regualy , compared to 1 in 7 germans.

so money wise america is still ahead of germany /historically way way ahead / exposure wise to the general public and worldwide audience america has fallen way behind germany .


IMO boxing capitol wise, america will always be on top no matter what happens in the future, america for example even now has more proffesional heavyweights than the rest of the world put together and that goes for most weightclasses i would guess down to welter.

so the number of fighters america produces makes it very very important and always will be.

but until PPV and remote locations are changed, boxing in america has now become a very exclusive elite sport which only a tiny percentage of americans watch.

 

that can be extended to international fighters on the whole as well

 

Excellent post. The only gripe is your "america will always be on top" - always is a damn long time.

 

When Vitali knocked out Titty-at-l-ASS' fighter Kirk Johnson in New York, New York's Madison Square, Garden, USA, the fight was sold out during a huge snow storm. Vitali knocked him out in the second round. Larry Merchant; "The whale has been harpooned." Titty said that Kirk Johnson would knock Vitali out with one punch. LOL! HBO should have learned from this fight that Klitschkos are popular in US, fans want to see them, but because of prejudice, they boycott them.

 

Farmboxer, HBO knew that
1) Wlad fights less exciting fights than Vitali,
2) Chambers didn't stand a chance.

Further, the fight was not aired 'cause of the price of the TV rights. Sad but true.