Quote Originally Posted by Freedom View Post
Quote Originally Posted by ross View Post
The Klitschkos?
Never been accepted by many in the US media or by many American boxing fans.

Most Americans generally only like African-American boxers. There are a few cases where they will accept a boxer from another country as long as he's not white.

The Klitschkos, Hatton, Calzaghe, Dariusz have generally been ridiculed and discredited by American fans and media people.
That's over-simplifying it.

Americans from PA loved Kelly Pavlik, in New York they loved Tito Trinidad, and in LA they loved Oscar De La Hoya. They weren't African American.

It might be a style thing. American might like the style of boxing that developed in the ghettos of New York in the 1920s and moved to the ghettos of Philly and Detroit in the 1970s.

I'm just thinking if Kovalev knocks out Hopkins and GGG stops Kid Chocolate, could they even become big hits in the U.S.?