Who are the best boxing fans in the world?

[Swashbuckling Gordy]

fisrt i should start by saying that i am english.now....the british certainly make the most noise,make the most intimadating atmosphere and travel in the greatest numbers (lewis in US always sounded like home fights).however i am embarrassed by our lack of respect for opponents,i have to say that american fans beat us hands down in this respect.The english do not often praise opponents performances,after lewis-holyfield 1 i was greatly heartened by the outrage shown by american boxing fans.that would not have been seen if the situaton was reversed.
ps manfredo will freeze when confronted with 50,000 screaming,spiting brits this saturday.i will be one of them (minus the spitting,screaming)

Goood post but i disagree with you on your comments about the Americans being outraged , plenty of times British fighters have got the S*** end of the stick Stateside and nobody has bothered their a*** !!

American fans are much much more fickle British fans will support S*** fighters to the bitter end in huge numbers whilst good British fighters couldnt sell out the front room .

Ricky Hatton being a good fighter is hugely popular but he was selling out the MEC way before he was world champion or had proved himself at anything near European Level .

I think we like the boy next door its often said that Brits prefer a plucky loser rather than a bad winner i think thats to a certain extent true but i think british fans like their sportsman to have a strain of humanity and humbleness we like the cheeky chappy a little too much .


I had my doubts on the way up about Hatton i thought he was hyped but i still liked him still watched all his fights compare him to Scott Harrison who won a world title in good style but never caught on with the Scottish public because everybody knew he was an absoloute arsehole and a nasty bit of work .

British fans though as you stated can be really embarrasing to be around their iggnorance and loyalty to their boy really pisses me off .

Case in point, Richard Williams on the way up turning heads looking good gets his shot at the Commenwealth title in my hometown against Tony Badea .

On the night its a pretty poor turnout but the fans who do turn out are Mainly Micheal Alldiss supporters ( Crawley Boy ) they make alot of noise get behind their boy fair enough he wins a routine 8 rounder .
I turned up to see the main event Richard Williams i go to the toilet come back and the arena is all but empty except for a a few die hards and 50 of Richards supporters .

Richard ends up putting on a clinic destroys his man and wins in 3 whilst Micheal Alldiss fans are getting pissed in the bar and fighting .

That about sums it up.

Brit fans will back their boy but sometimes i think they have no idea what their watching .

OK Brain Boy you pretty much just repeated what he said and twisted it a bit.....Pay Attention....

Excuse me pay attention to what ? Im feeling alittle lost what did i repeat ?

I made points about the British in general that Ryamman didnt make so perhaps you could elaborate on what i twisted and should pay attention to!!


The whole post was for the most part dedicated to our approach to sport i didnt comment on the negativity of British fight fans towards opponents as a whole what i was trying to say is that British fight fans are sometimes blinded by their love for their own fighter !!

I didnt mention anything about spitting or screaming , i mentioned once about about iggnorance towards opponents which can be a variety of things !!!

It can mean a lack of knowlage about a good fighter or it can be outright hostility

I also came up with a perfectly good anecdote that i thought emphasised my point well !!!

I dont see any reason for you to start with the Irony and name calling unless

A , You are a dickhead

B , You fancy me and crave my attention .

Make a point Daxx there's a good widdle boy .

[ryanman]

er yeah i gotta agree with gordy.he elaborated on my point,he didnt repeat it.

[CutMeMick]

How about Vic fans?

[SweetPea]

Also, Riddick Bowe fans deserve a shoutout here.
You have to be loyal and passionate to start riots.

[ryanman]

if riots are a criteria then derry matthews fans win hands down!not well publicised but anyone thats been to a fight knows!

[Kev]

Actually I don't even know where Peurto Rico is, is it in South America

Is it a country or a city?

:P

Sounds like the UK needs to start teaching geography in school

It's nothing to do with ignorance, its just that as one of the richest nations in the world we are obviously only interested in other first world nations, ones that actually matter on a world stage.

If you had oil or nuclear weapons we would join the Americans in invading you but until then you are kind of irrelevent to global society as a whole.

No offense

[SweetPea]

Actually I don't even know where Peurto Rico is, is it in South America

Is it a country or a city?

:P

Sounds like the UK needs to start teaching geography in school

It's nothing to do with ignorance, its just that as one of the richest nations in the world we are obviously only interested in other first world nations, ones that actually matter on a world stage.

If you had oil or nuclear weapons we would join the Americans in invading you but until then you are kind of irrelevent to global society as a whole.

No offense

I was joking...

... and I'm not from Puerto Rico.

[El Gamo]

How about Vic fans?

[mike_tha_man]

no offense taken either Bilbo

let me school you for a little bit

Puerto Rico is a little island in the Carribean ( just south of Florida, USA)

and we are a commonwealth state with means we are a territory of the USA
we have their money, we have their laws we just haven't become a state as of yet!!

Class dismissed

[Kev]

no offense taken either Bilbo

let me school you for a little bit

Puerto Rico is a little island in the Carribean ( just south of Florida, USA)

and we are a commonwealth state with means we are a territory of the USA
we have their money, we have their laws we just haven't become a state as of yet!!

Class dismissed

Ah I see. So basically they are to America what the Falklands Islands are to us?

[TitoFan]

no offense taken either Bilbo

let me school you for a little bit

Puerto Rico is a little island in the Carribean ( just south of Florida, USA)

and we are a commonwealth state with means we are a territory of the USA
we have their money, we have their laws we just haven't become a state as of yet!!

Class dismissed

Ah I see. So basically they are to America what the Falklands Islands are to us?

Well, if the Falkland Islands had about 4 million people a vast majority of whom are bilingual.... if they were one of the premier global pharmaceutical manufacturing centers in the world.... if they boasted more boxing world champions in their history per capita than any other nation in the world... if they had one of the better baseball teams in the international scene.... if they were the rum-producing capital of the world and boasted some of the best "salsa" bands around.... and if they had one of the more renowned engineering schools, from which entities such as NASA among others recruit every single year......

Yeah, I guess the Falklands would be to England what Puerto Rico is to the U.S.

[mike_tha_man]

[mike_tha_man]

Right on point TitoFan
Right on

[TitoFan]

Right on point TitoFan
Right on

Always happy and willing to enlighten my fellow man.



By the way, CC on the cool avatar.

[mike_tha_man]

Thanks i'll CC you back if i could
One day my friend, one day!