Does the average Londoner know who Joe Calzaghe is?

You make that sound pretty bad. Are you being deceptive mate?

 

I'm starting to get the sense you don't like him .

 

The problem is pretty much every member of the press says it when they are either talking to him or about him , so the it gets stuck into Ricky's head and he keeps mentioning it himself .
It is a bit annoying , but at least it's true .

 

You would be generous if you were to say that 25% of US citizens know who Taylor is? You would be generous if you were to say that 0.25% knew that he was even a boxer!

 

Maybe. You take into account all types of people from all walks of life, I think the only boxers you can confidently say more than half the public knows as household names are Tyson and Ali (maybe Foreman). DLH is a name that anyone who a) is remotely into boxing, b) knows someone who's passionately into boxing, or c) is into sports period - will know. a+b+c does not = 1/2 the population.

 

That's not true. People who have friends that are sports fans, boxing fans, or watch tv at all know who de la hoya is. i work at a grocery store in a small northern california town and there were women in their 60's talking to me about how they were going to watch the fight with their husbands, sons, etc. de la hoya is very well known.

 

ok well that's Cali (not to mention the inescapable heavy multimedia promotion that preceded FMJ-DLH...but that kind of awareness goes in one ear and out the other of non-fans). you think soccermom housewives in Nebraska know who he is? or homeless guys on the streets of Raleigh? high school kids in Bangor? in the big picture boxing is pretty fringe. names like ali have endured from the time that it wasn't. the only name to have really truly penetrated the collective frame of reference since, is Tyson. DLH is easily the closest behind Mike, but I just don't think he has that kind of name recognition.

 

Probably 80% would know Kessler in his home country. Last year he was voted sportsman of the year. Not boxer of the year, but sportsman of the year. How many other boxer has that?

I can only imagine Pac might have. Noone else.

 

I think at most 50% of British blokes who are supposed to be into sport would say they had heard of him but only down the pub, in front of their mates...:verysad

 

calzaghe is god in britain. end of thread

 

yeah, but only 6.3% of British people go to Church...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5349132.stm

 

Calzaghe and Hatton were among the 6 or 7 sports personalities to be nominated.

The ones who won in the end were a joke. Without being biased none of them deserved to be above Calzaghe.