Apart from Mayweather & PacMan boxing has no superstars

[Beanz]

In the UK I am not so sure that most non boxing fans would know who Mayweather and Pacquiao are, when Hatton fought them and they were on the sports news maybe , but now more Brits know who Khan is. Non boxing fans in the UK would have known Henry Cooper, John Conteh, Frank Bruno etc in the past because if their crossover appeal, but they would have also recognised Ali,SRL and Duran because they were characters and huge sporting superstars in an era when there was no premiership and fewer sports people with sponsorship deals and a TV presence. I don't think it will ever be the same again. The world has changed and it ain't going back.

[Master]

In the UK I am not so sure that most non boxing fans would know who Mayweather and Pacquiao are, when Hatton fought them and they were on the sports news maybe , but now more Brits know who Khan is. Non boxing fans in the UK would have known Henry Cooper, John Conteh, Frank Bruno etc in the past because if their crossover appeal, but they would have also recognised Ali,SRL and Duran because they were characters and huge sporting superstars in an era when there was no premiership and fewer sports people with sponsorship deals and a TV presence. I don't think it will ever be the same again. The world has changed and it ain't going back.

No coincidence that Bruno, McGuigan, Benn/Eubanks/Watson were superstars because of mainstream TV exposure.