Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
I don;t know about you guys but when I meet someone who knows even Corrales Castillo etc are,I get so happy!! Seriously,I meet peeps,ask if they like boxing and they say yes,their fave boxers are Mike Tyson,Lennox Lewis,Naseem Hamed etc etc all retired,semi retired fighters! I ask them if they know about the big fight coming up(ie Pacman Erik) and they'll look puzzled and that's when the conversation ends!
I suppose that in the UK at least, the late 80s into the early 90s was the most recent of eras when boxing was very popular and mainstream here, though it is in resurgence at the moment, with the return of high-level boxing to terrestrial TV. I guess a lot of people here if asked about boxing would mention those same fighters, because those are the faces that they remember seeing on TV after coming home from the pub.