Are American-based boxers always overrated?

when?

 

I'm glad Calzaghe doesn't go to America after reading this ****.

http://boxingtalk.com/pag/article13439.html

Corley was the same and most American boxers are when they lose elsewhere.

 

Heck we trash our own fighters without equal. Pavlik sucks, Hopkins is old, Rahman was lucky, why is this guy even fighting Calzaghe, ..... I've heard it all and worse.

The Euros are bandwagoneers par excellence. Americans hate their own with applomb of a putdown comedian.

 

this is also because you have a far bigger pool of top level boxers to follow. when we get a top tier guy we all tend to follow him. although i'm edging towards mayweather at the moment in his upcoming bout.

david haye is the future :deal

 

at Roy ducking Watson.

For crying out loud, Watson's career was over by late 1991.

 

no worse than waldo when he got banged out by brewster.

 

His biggest fight is another european anyway, so why does he need to go to the states to gain YOUR or the YANKS appreciation? People from the USA say all the Brit boxers need to travel to the USA to prove themseleves, well it can work both ways, I dont see the Yanks shipping themselves overhere by the bucketload, but like its been said before, it works both ways, and I dont think things will change, America has always been the Mecca of boxing, and if I was a pro fighter, Id want to fight at the garden or sin city, rather than Doncaster (Witter!!)

 

Why would anyone?

For money, that's why.

A larger attendance doesn't mean you get paid more.

 

Joe C needs America to cement his legacy throughout boxing. Like it or not the Mecca of boxing is in the U.S.

 

indeed, although i've always thought he would stand the best chance against roy out of the british middleweights had tragedy not struck. he was owning eubank that night. decent pop, good ring smarts, fantastic defence, what he done to benn was ****ing stunning.

 

You better whisper that around your counterparts.

IMO Haye is too small for the heavyweight division and should focus on cleaning up in the cruiserweight division. No doubt he has talent but I don't think he'd fare too well against the behemoths coming from either side of the pond.

 

He conveniently ignores that point at every turn.

 

Then you get more money. Rich people are sometimes the greediest people on the planet.

Q: How much money is enough?

A: A little more.

How many people DON'T try to make as much money as possible at their job, no matter how much they make?

 

6'3, weighed in at 231 for his heavyweight debut. i don't see it as much of an issue. if he beats mormeck i expect him to move up to heavy straight away, too much of an issue to get down to cruiser these days for him.

 

Yep.

Watson's probably my favorite UK fighter ever. I loved his schooling of Benn. That was a beautiful performance to watch.