Who are the best boxing fans in the world?

[Kev]

In my opinion it's either the English or Irish, maybe a tie, but pressed I'm going for the English.

When I consider all the most atmospheric boxing crowds I've ever seen they are without exception English or Irish domestic fights. The big venues in the states just have zero atmosphere compared to Bernard Dunne in Dublin or Ricky Hatton in Manchester.

Irish fighters can even sell out Maddison Square garden, such is their popularity with Irish Americans.

Traditionally English fighters don't like to travel but the same cannot be said of our fans. Whenever an Englishman is fighting overseas you can guarantee he'll have at least 50% of the crowd behind him no matter who he's fighting.

As far as I'm aware American fans don't travel much at all, Mexicans probably can't afford to and most of the other nations are pretty much indifferent to boxing.

What do you guys think, who has the best fans?

[Swashbuckling Gordy]

Most passionaite but at thesame time the least educated .

Sometimes our behaviour is terrible vendors love us because we throw our money around but our treatment of locals borders on shameull.

Alot of people on this forum might not be happy with whatv im about to say but the Welsh with a beer in them are fucking nightmares both in a good way and a bad way.

Londoners are the most hostile and the Geordies are very hospitable .


Been allround the country but the best atomosphere is York Hall you can peel the atmosphere off the wall .

Only been abroad to watch Football.

[No Contest]

Irish baby!!! We are loyal to our roots, shit Ive never even been to Ireland and for some reason I have always considered myself Irish even tho I was born in America. I always root for the Irish guy even if I know hes got a snowballs chance in hell. I think its a genetic thing, blinding loyalty.I even paid for the Duddy pay-per-view.....loyalty baby!

[X]

Ive never even been to Ireland and for some reason I have always considered myself Irish even tho I was born in America.

Yes, I am the same about Azerbaijan. I have never been there, don't speak the language and don't know anyone really from there. I was not born there either, but I have decided that is where I want to be from.

[No Contest]

I am Irish decent , thats the funny part about Americans, we are all transplanted cultures.No one claims America its always African-American, Mexican-American.....no one wants to be considered just American.(I blame the government) I dont want to start ranting about politics on a boxing forum so I'll just stop there. I guess Irish-American is what I am..its just a pain in the ass to have to hyphenate everything.

[Ghost]

I am Irish decent , thats the funny part about Americans, we are all transplanted cultures.No one claims America its always African-American, Mexican-American.....no one wants to be considered just American.(I blame the government) I dont want to start ranting about politics on a boxing forum so I'll just stop there. I guess Irish-American is what I am..its just a pain in the ass to have to hyphenate everything.

American here, currently living in Australia.

[yvonne]

THE BRITISH FANS ARE THE BEST!!There's no dought that we are the best fans in the world when it comes to the great noble art game,after all we invented the sport.The amount of support we give to our boxers are 2nd to none.Just look at the drones of our 100% dedicated and loyle fans that have travelled the world to watch our boxers.There'll be 25,000 plus flying over the pond to watch CALZAGHE fight in 5weeks time against Hopkins.Why dont you think HBO have been so interested in boardcasting our fighters recently??Obviously there's alot of money up for grabs for the bloody greedy promoters!Were the BEST and JOE CALZAGHE will again prove that by sorting out HOPKINS in April.KEEP IT UP BRITISH FANS!

[:::PSL:::]

THE BRITISH FANS ARE THE BEST!!There's no dought that we are the best fans in the world when it comes to the great noble art game,after all we invented the sport.The amount of support we give to our boxers are 2nd to none.Just look at the drones of our 100% dedicated and loyle fans that have travelled the world to watch our boxers.There'll be 25,000 plus flying over the pond to watch CALZAGHE fight in 5weeks time against Hopkins.Why dont you think HBO have been so interested in boardcasting our fighters recently??Obviously there's alot of money up for grabs for the bloody greedy promoters!Were the BEST and JOE CALZAGHE will again prove that by sorting out HOPKINS in April.KEEP IT UP BRITISH FANS!

I guess those who can travel around the world, spend their hard earn money to see their fighters are the REAL best boxing fans huh?

[yvonne]

Yes i still stand by what i said earlier about our TOP QUALITY PROUD BRITISH LOYLE FANS!I was'nt speculating on just the one fact that we(U.K)are the best boxing fans in the world due to how many of us go over the pond to watch our local national hero's fight.That would'nt be a fair and realistic statment to make.
The point of the matter to the question is that we all cant afford big fight tickets to Las Vegas and anywhere else across the globe,but the fact is still that we(U.K)are filling out every boxing venues up and down british coast line every week,wheather it's a low key match up in socal clubs or in big venues like the O2 ARENA,or the famous YORK HALL in LONDON.Where are a 100% loyle boxing fans not just to the british boxer whoever they maybe(MALE or FEMALE fighters)but also to the sporting game as well.Thats why our boxers are always wearing they hearts on they sleeve wheather they win or lose due to the fact thats its all reflected from they down to eath boxing fans as well as themselves as a true BRITISH FIGHTER.

[Addicted to_boxing]

American here, currently living in Australia.

If you are not an indigenous person then you are not an American with no hyphen. Second , all people of the USA are not the only Americans. Everyone from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America are considered American as they are from the Americas. People of the USA do not have a heritage (no inherent physical traits) or culture ( no experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. ) We are Hypenated-Mutts. The people of Mexico are more American than people of the USA as they have never had to reroot their past.


See map of Mexico before http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/mex...mexico1847.jpg . Which leads to the joke of USA telling Mexicans to go home !!!

[:::PSL:::]

If you are not an indigenous person then you are not an American with no hyphen. Second , all people of the USA are not the only Americans. Everyone from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America are considered American as they are from the Americas. People of the USA do not have a heritage (no inherent physical traits) or culture ( no experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. ) We are Hypenated-Mutts. The people of Mexico are more American than people of the USA as they have never had to reroot their past.


See map of Mexico before http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/mex...mexico1847.jpg . Which leads to the joke of USA telling Mexicans to go home !!!

Agreed. Damn early settlers got here and started drawing lines and have the nerve of telling people if they're encroaching or not.

A friend of mine in Alaska used to tell me that "if you see a black bear in your backyard, always keep in your mind that you are the envaders, not them". And I knew what he meant by that right away.

[leftylee]

The UK fans without doubt!!!!

[boozeboxer]

If you are not an indigenous person then you are not an American with no hyphen. Second , all people of the USA are not the only Americans. Everyone from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America are considered American as they are from the Americas. People of the USA do not have a heritage (no inherent physical traits) or culture ( no experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. ) We are Hypenated-Mutts. The people of Mexico are more American than people of the USA as they have never had to reroot their past.


See map of Mexico before http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/mex...mexico1847.jpg . Which leads to the joke of USA telling Mexicans to go home !!!

Found a quote that was interesting from Teddy Roosevelt.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

[Addicted to_boxing]

Found a quote that was interesting from Teddy Roosevelt.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City
12 October 1915

Great quote as it lives through its' spirit coming up on 100 years. The rerence was to Anglo Saxons from Europe. There is no mention of people of color ( Latin, Asian or African) so could it be the man was a racist and felt only Anglo Saxons were people of substance ? Seems it holds true even in todays society in the USA.

[Hulk]

I voted "Other" since there was no option for Mayorga fans like myself. Ricardo Mayorga fans are THE best boxing fans in the world. Bar none.