Which currently active boxers are "household names"

Holyfield

hmmm aside from Mayweather and DLH its a bunch of maybe's:

Marquez/Vazquez (for the trilogy)
BHop
Pacman
Calzaghe
probably Hatton (everyone knows him from the PBF fight)

 

Roy Jones, Oscar De La Hoya, and Floyd Mayweather

 

Those, Calzaghe i'd even add. Still Tyson for sure, I hear his name a lot still....

 

Calzaghe? Nope nobody I know knows who he is right now, let alone 30 yrs from now.

The only ones from this era would be Floyd and Oscar. I'd consider Jones, Holyfield and Lewis to be from the Tyson era. Although the Jones and Lewis did have top level careers that streched into the present era.

 

No one in boxing has a higher profile in his home country than Manny Pacquiao.

Every 80 year old great-grandmother in the Phillipines has heard of Pacman.

 

I think people need to qualify their answers according to a particular region. For instance, in the U.S, Holyfield, Roy Jones, De La Hoya, Mayweather, and Hopkins are all household names. Hatton is a household name in the U.K but not in the U.S.

 

Tyson will always be remembered and spoke of...I didnt include him because he hasnt fought in a couple years. I wouldnt add Calzaghe....
Hopkins became a household name after beating ODLH and Trinidad and also those fights with Taylor. Other than that there are alot of border liners like.....Hatton, Miguel Cotto,

 

Hatton could throw his name in there too if he could get a few bigtime wins under his belt to close out his career. Unfortunently, a lot of the lusture around him has faded this side of the atlantic because of the way he lost (bull**** really seen as he gave a good acount of himself). Right now there are a lot of people calling him overrate or saying that he has no skills. Thats something he would have to address to start getting mentioned by regular folk. Also I don't know what Manny pacquioa needs to do to become a house hold name in Canada and in the US cause its not like he hasn't fought everyone already.

 

Exactly..
That said Mayweather is not a household name in the U.S.
The way De La Hoya is, not even close.

 

Just because he's not on De La Hoya's level does not mean he's not a household name. He has enough name recognition to be a household name in the U.S. The guy is everywhere, he's even waiving the flag at the Indy 500 this year. Pretty much anyone who's remotely into sports knows who he is.

 

True household name boxers are few and far in-between. The media, the news, the newspapers, the magazines- boxing is being ignored CRIMINALLY by sports analysts everywhere.

Only a handful (Stephan A. Smith) exhibit much knowledge of the sport at all.

But here is a list that comes to mind:
-Oscar De La Hoya
-Floyd Mayweather Jr.
-Evander Holyfield (Yes, He Still Is)
-Shane Mosley (A More Well-Rounded Journalist Should Know Mosley By Now)
-Felix Trinidad (Remember For The Battle of The Millenium!!!)
-Bernard Hopkins (For His Fight With Oscar)

Yes-basically, Oscar, and anyone he has lost to. Strange but true nonetheless, IMO.

 

Hector Camacho!!

Some of my friends who know nothing about boxing bring him up. Its weird.

 

He got A LOT of exposure and even fans in the U.S. from the 24/7 series though. Most of my friends now know who he is just from the Mayweather fight (and no they don't follow boxing)

 

He was once a great, exciting boxer in the eighties. Back then, the media covered boxing, and Camacho was an instant star after his antics in the Jose Luis Ramirez fight. One of my favorites, too.:yep