Germany: the Hotbed of Boxing

Home of the great Ottke, ask Robin Reid how great German boxing is......

 

Italy is proabably the worst place for a fighter to fight in. Especially if your opponent is Italian.

Wlodarczyk is gonna have a tough time vs Fragomeni in Rome if it goes to the cards. I wish this fight would have been made in a neutral country like Germany.

 

I think in terms of the sheer volume of big television fights, Germany is still a distant second to the US. Maybe the gap can be closed a little now because of the severe economical/attendance issues in the States. Also, for the last 5-10 years other regions such as UK and Poland have been closing the gap with Germany in terms of having big names of their own and staging fights. In addition, German crowds tend to be pretty sterile and subdued, which takes away a bit from watching the fight. Lastly, it is a demographic challange for a country of 80 million or so people to compete with another country of 300 million.

 

Germany puts on great events. Pagentry and all that is top notch and it's what boxing in the United States used to do in the late 90s. I just can't help but feel a little disturbed at how quiet their crowds can be more often than not. A lot of the times you can't help but feel like they're sleeping through the event. Reminds me very much of japan crowds in terms of their politeness to the fighters.

I'd like to see Haye-Wlad have a more soccer-esque crowd feel to it. Know what I mean?

 

The hell it is.

 

I agree. Vitali - Gomez had 11 mill viewers in Germany alone. That's impressive.

 

It isnt and never will be, American TV runs boxings bigger shows and while they do the centre of boxing will never be anywhere else.

The fights you mentioned that have been events are spread out over time whereas fights of that magnitude happen frequently in the USA.

Germany is very capable of holding an event but fighters wont go their either because theyre worried about robberies/cheating like what happened to Robin Reid or Danny Williams and Showtime or HBO wont payout big money for fighters to fight in Germany other than the top named fighters and the Klitschkos are the only A listers based in Germany.

 

Danny Williams fight was in Spain.

 

To be fair it happened in Germany and in a response to your thread its one reason that makes Germany a less attractive place for big names, this sort of thing wont be overlooked even though its only happened once people will see it as being a risk not worth taking.

 

Ok but was it not against a German and a Germans team who cheated?

 

Technically it was against a Kazakh, promoted by a Turk, refereed by a Spaniard under the jursidiction of the Austrian boxing board of control...