Warren needs to groom Degales persona...

I don't think you are understanding it right. In boxing it isn't about how many people support you. It's about how much entertainment you provide and how well you are known.

Look at Eubank, Naz, Audley Harrison... at the time they were active I'd go as far as to say the majority of casual fans watched in the hope they were layed out

 

I suppose It depends on the individual, I know of boxers who say the more the crowd is against them, the better they perform

 

You want Frank to molest him? :huh

 

:good

 

DeGale is unpopular, I think the whole boxing world wanted him to lose afyer the things he said to George. It was a case of the school bully getting his comeupance.

If you talk that much trash, you have to back it up or you look like a fool.

Naz said he would never get beat, once he did the aura of invincibility went with him

It's the same reason why Floyd will never with Pacquiao, all the videos of him calling himself the GOAT and mocking his opponents would come vback to haunt him if he ever lost

DeGale showed George no respect, neither did Jim Mcdonnell, both look like mugs now and both wil forever be ridiculed because they were so wrong about George and their prediction that James could never lose

They had better hand over their purse as well.

 

British boxing needs a 'face' to help sell it to the wider public. George Groves at the moment is appearing a bit more articulate than James De Gale. All the trash talk that James has come out with sounds like bullying and presents the worst aspects of boxing to the general public. Companies like ITV depend on advertising revenue. They have seen advertising revenue drop due to the increase in other channels available. How many companies want their products associated with someone who talks like a playground bully? Much easier to sell the advertising space on another talent show.

James' adoption of a trash talking persona will probably cost him money outside the ring regardless of what success he achieves. George does come across better. I think of Henry Cooper and how much he was liked as a personality and how good that was for promoting the sport to the wider public. There are great money making opportunities away from the ring for a boxer if he presents well.

I feel that boxers who behave as we have seen James behave do a disservice to the sport at a time when it needs promoting to the wider public. His behaviour blows a massive hole in the long term promotion of boxing being a sport that develops the character of the individual participant through teaching discipline and respect for a fellow boxer.

 

It's fine being that cocky if you're

a) especially good
b) have knockout power

DeGale isn't the first and doesn't have the second. I'm so happy the witless **** got beaten. The fact so many others feel the same suggests that he really needs to consider how he comes across. His behaviour post-fight was hilarious (unintentionally).

 

It's too late for him now. He acted like a complete **** in the build up to a fight that caught the British public's attention. Then he got beat. Now everybody in this country is laughing at him.

How can he change their opinion now?

 

I noticed a couple of uncharacteristic Tweets from Degale yesterday. Although they struck me as thinly disguised adverts they also looked like the start of a small charm offensive.

 

I think there are things they can do to help him....

1. Stop talking about money - most people don't even know what their parents and best friends earn. Makes him look a twat bragging like that.

2. Take a step back for a good few weeks. No interviews, no photos, **** all.

3. Come out and admit he was beaten. None of this ''how can they do that to me'' bollocks.

I mean, there's a Facebook page for pretty much everything now.....

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-a...thought-he-beat-George-Groves/156429044422801

 

Naseem & Eubank were completely different to DeGale, they were both so ridiculously ott, they were both funny, they were both exciting fighters, they were entertainers as well as boxers

the only similarity with degale is arrogance, degale needs to learn how to use it entertainingly as he just comes across as an annoying irritating chav at the moment than a 'love him or hate him' type star

 

In fairness, Eubank was really unpopular. He was arrogant and untested when he faced Benn. Even though people still didn't like him after, he proved he was a warrior against his sternest domestic test. He knocked Benn out after a terrific back and forth battle. It was easier to forgive his arrogance after that because he showed he was willing to grit it out.

After the fight, Benn paid tribute to the man who had beaten him so emphatically. DeGale has shown none of those qualities. Until he learns to be a man about it - and he did lose a close fight to a guy at the same level as him, ultimately - he won't get reccognition or respect.

The loss to Groves will ALWAYS be cast up against him.