Is Manny Pacquiao Popular in Europe ?

Cant speak for others! But if they are fans of boxing and have some knowledge about whats going on in the sport, then ofcourse they know him!

 

All i know is in the UK, there are so many people who don't know who the big NFL stars are, NBA stars (accept Jordon and maybe Kobe now) so it ain't that hard to understand why they wouldn't know who pac is. Pac election win had zero news times in britain, yet this suppose to have made him even more popular around the world.

 

Certainly not as well known here in the UK as he is in say America. Boxing fans clearly know him, and his name is known by a percentage of the population here...but it's not widespread like an Ali, or a Tyson.

However, mention Mayweather along with that name, and people know what you're talking about. They know that fight. Mayweather and Pacquiao's names together are more well known than their names seperately.

 

Yes but boxing is a world wide sport.. Where as American football is only popular in a North America. Basketball is almost worldwide although not to big in the Uk (from what i hear).

Pac is well known in the US.. But his election really didnt get any coverage here.

 

They don't know him in Ireland.

 

Ok i will ask again... If boxing is not popular in the UK.. Then how come ESB has more Brit posters than Americans? Yet US has 5 to 6 x the population?

 

And who the hell are you...........Wikipedia...??.............:hey

 

It is somewhat popular, but it has nothing on other sports...the best example being football. Sky Sports have picked boxing up over the last few years, bringing us some consistent boxing coverage, including some of the big bouts including Mayweather and Pacquiao for free. And also going out of their way to promote and advertise boxing to attract more viewers...e.g. Ringside.

Boxing in the UK has a solid base of hardcore and casual fans from what I can see. But I wouldn't say boxing is in the top 3 sports here in the UK...possibly not even top 5.

 

Best way to look at it is like this, Khan, Haye & Froch are the UK's biggest stars and longest champions.

Sky have apparently said to Khan they aren't interested in showing his fight with Bradley (imagine that) and Froch could never get any broadcaster interested in showing his fights in the first place thats why he is desperate to havae a double header with Haye.

Boxing is such a small sport over here now.

 

This is because at those times boxing was available regularly on National TV. I used to watch The Big Fight Live on ITV Eubank, Collins, Benn, Watson, Calzaghe, Lewis, Bruno and many others. OK they were mostly all british fights but at least it was some exposure for boxing and the top americans got mentions from the commentators. Then everything went to Sky and boxing dwindled in popularity. At work no-one discusses boxing I work for a local council in London. They talk aboit Footbal & cricket but nothing else. Amir Khan vs Michael Gomez got a brief mention but thats the only time i heard about boxing at work. I follow as much boxing as i can, all weight classes all countries, my older brother was a very avid boxing fan but now due to the lack of coverage has lost touch with boxing.

 

Anyway - This isn't a PAC issue........this is about boxing in generel............nobody cares !

Back in the 70 - nearly everybody in Denmark knew about Ali, Foreman and Joe. People gathered and stayed up to 5 am to watch the BIG fights................ppv killed that !!!





(Thats a decent 1000 post......:bbb)

 

Basketball's nothing here, I saw a UK game on sky the other day there was about 200 people there, we've got our sports set now I can't see anything new getting any more than a niche following.

Some British fighters still catch on well and become huge here, household names, Hatton most recently, Bruno, Hamed and so on before that. The problem facing boxing is how it's core audience has been alienated, mainly by pricing them out.

Boxing has always been a working class sport here, and most places, middle class progressive types think it's savage and have a go at banning it every few years. When my Grandad was young all working class guys liked boxing, he'd pay half a crown to go see local fights at the town hall which was affordable to manual workers back then, fights featuring the top British guys were on regular free tv, and big American fights could be heard on the radio and were sometimes on the tv.

Fast forward to now, town hall shows featuring local part-timers are 25 quid, British title fights are 40-50, there's no boxing on regular tv, it's all on Sky which requires a subscription, sky often don't bother picking up American fights at all so no one who isn't dedicated to look for streams ever sees US fights, then it's even worse when it's on ppv. It's expensive to follow now and alot of people who would like to be fans just say "**** it, I'll go down the pub instead" when you tell them a fights 15 quid just to watch it on tv. Viewing figures for skys boxing shows are in the 100,000 range usually, being so removed from the general fan is killing interest in this country, when Audley Harrison fought Danny Williams on ITV, 2 very avergae guys got 6 million people watching.

 

In terms of popularity I would "guess" it would go something like this.....

1. Football
2. Rugby
3. F1
4. Cricket
5. Tennis
6. Athletics
7. Snooker
8. UFC / Boxing

 

nice:rofl

 

sky coverage has killed boxing nearly. My grandpa loved watching boxing, even my grandmother watched it sometimes!!!!!!

Most people dont give a crap about it. Certain fighters get lots of support because of their ties.

Hatton and football and Khan because of his ethnicity. They arn't really boxing fans though, only fans of a certain fighter.