Hopkins - Does he have any TRUE fans?

[Fenster]

Hopkins is mayweather-esqe in the way that you either hate him or love him as he constantly plays the role of the bad guy, difference is people pay to see mayweather loose since it's such a slim slim possibility, for hopkins it isn't. Also calzaghe is popular among boxing fans here in the u.s. but that's about it, at least going by my own personal experience, i'm hyped as hell for this fight while most of the people i know are much more interested in the nba playoffs. 8 out of 10 people i know don't even know who the hell joe is, and that's something he's done to himself being a sheltered fighter overseas. They were counting on more people showing up to see calzaghe and it just isn't happening.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Judging by the "failure" of this fight in Vegas was there any reason for Calzaghe to have ever fought in the States?

He did just beat his main Supermiddle rival, right? In front of 50,000 odd people to boot....

[amat]

In front of 50 thousand but no one stateside cared to watch.

I think they should have had it in Yankee Stadium. The fans most definitely would have come out for that for a few reasons, first being that a lot of people would go just for the novelty of having it at Yankee stadium like the old days in that stadium's last year. And Hopkins fans are on the East Coast and with a hurting economy, it's not exactly easy to travel across the country to see a fight.

[Mar]

Hopkins is mayweather-esqe in the way that you either hate him or love him as he constantly plays the role of the bad guy, difference is people pay to see mayweather loose since it's such a slim slim possibility, for hopkins it isn't. Also calzaghe is popular among boxing fans here in the u.s. but that's about it, at least going by my own personal experience, i'm hyped as hell for this fight while most of the people i know are much more interested in the nba playoffs. 8 out of 10 people i know don't even know who the hell joe is, and that's something he's done to himself being a sheltered fighter overseas. They were counting on more people showing up to see calzaghe and it just isn't happening.

What exactly do you mean by that?

Judging by the "failure" of this fight in Vegas was there any reason for Calzaghe to have ever fought in the States?

He did just beat his main Supermiddle rival, right? In front of 50,000 odd people to boot....

I just meant in order for him to be popular over here, he needed to fight over here more. But to think he'd be able to pull a crowd here where he is a little more than an unknown isn't going to work. I highly doubt they were counting on b -hop to rake em in, so for a guy who hasn't fought here and another guy who isn't the most popular especially out west as mentioned selling half the arena doesn't seem half bad to me. Thier expectations were set way to high for the casual fan. One of the main knocks on the guy was that he was good over there but how would he fare here (for what that really matters) he choose to hold out and wait towards the end of his career to make this trip that he always knew he would have to make. Now to be dissappointed in a low turnout i belive is only himself and his advisors to blame if anyone. He can't expect the casual fan (who was more interested in the stupid match between floyd and the big show) to jump on board all of the sudden cause he finally wants to prove what we've been waiting for him to prove long ago. One thing that i fear of this fight is that joe wins impressively and still won't get his due as it may be a little to late to

[match]

I think Hopkins has true fans, but will simply never be a huge draw. Kind of like a Terry Norris or a Mike McCallum.

[The Fightfan]

Don't you think Hopkins lost alot of fans do to his ridiculous comments.I liked both fighters fighters until Hopkins opened his mouth.Call it silly if you will but Why would he do something like that.