Boxers with the biggest fanbases in todays boxing

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  1. wally

    wally Member Full Member

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    In the past, it was all about Tyson, Prince Naseem Hamed (at least in the UK), Bruno :yep, Nigel Benn, Arturo Gatti, you had Henry Maske and Axel Schulz over in Germany along with Dariusz Michaelwski but nowadays, who are the peoples champions of today?

    Is the big 4 Oscar de la Hoya, Wladimir Klitschko, Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton or are there more? definitely imo seem to be less than before
     
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  2. Benjiabc

    Benjiabc The Nottingham Hitman Full Member

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    yes the four you mentioned are the main four, calzaghe does reasonably well especially in cardiff
     
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  3. Sandmanl337

    Sandmanl337 Pactard Full Member

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    Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton, Floyd Mayweather (Half of them aren't true boxing fans) and yeah.. probably Wladimir Klitschko.. I believe he's really popular over in Europe.. That's all I really see with the biggest fan bases, as you said basically..
     
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  4. Goose

    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    Cotto, Klitchko, Pacman, Zelenoff
     
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  5. Wige247

    Wige247 Active Member Full Member

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    What were the ratings for his fight vs. Gomez again? Tito, he is not.
     
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  6. campan

    campan New Member Full Member

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    klitschko has a huge fan base in all Europe, hatton and calzaghe are poular mostly in UK.
     
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  7. Goose

    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    yeah he does....they have him fight before each puertorican day parade and he fills up msg
     
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  8. Auracle21

    Auracle21 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Cotto def. noone wanted to see him beat up Gomez. he did well against mosley and Judah
     
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  9. pavlikfan

    pavlikfan Active Member Full Member

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    Wlad and Hatton are the two big ones in Europe with Oscar and Pac having the other two big bases. Other than that, Cotto has a nice base in the NYC area, Kelly has a nice base in Ohio and the midwest, Mayweather has a decent number of fans sprinkled around the country, and Calzaghe and Khan have decent followings in the UK with Khan definitely on the way up.
     
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  10. kgs83

    kgs83 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Yea there's allot of boxers with good fanbase's imo.....Klitschko, De La Hoya, Hatton, JC, Pac man, Pavlik (got very nice fans i hear, very kind, so Glen McCrory says :)), Cotto, Khan.

    Tho Hatton's fans the most dedicated, no fighter in the world woulda taken the amount of fans to vegas that he did for the FM fight. And the crowd travelling to the Urango, Castillo and Collazo fights were in there thousands too.
     
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  11. kracka81

    kracka81 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    ohio and pa west va were all behind kelly pavlik he is a one of a kind champion always making appearences to he was at the american cancer siciety in cleve
     
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  12. Bslice

    Bslice Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Bernard Hopkins
     
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  13. sean

    sean pale peice of pig`s ear Full Member

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    being in europe i do not know the exposure that american boxers get in the usa media and viewing figures from tv to put it in context with the continent of europe.

    i also do not know mexican tv numbers but if it is on free to air tv in mexico , i would imagine barrera/morrales/ect ect would have been watched in there millions.

    to give a european perspective .

    klitchko will get packed houses in europe and 10 million on german tv alone, add east european tv to that figure as well and you must get 20 million plus.

    amir khan for an example gets 6 million viewers per fight on average in the uk.

    calzaghe has a big crowd pulling abilty , but is hardly seen on british tv or papers until a fight.

    khan gets more tv and newspaper column inches.
     
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  14. C HOP

    C HOP The World Awaits Full Member

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    jermain taylor
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    kelly pavlik
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  15. Odo

    Odo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lukas Konecny can fill any arena in his native czech republic,and so can the Klitschko brothers in their native Ukraine.
    Zsolt Erdei is a big draw his native Hungary.
     
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