Thats quite hard to answer, America doesnt really love or cherrish its sportsmen like the Britts do theirs but I think the closest would have to be Pavlik, he has a local following and has the white boy that can fight bit down too

Saying about Britts loving their sportsmen, thats not always true, they have to earn it otherwise they are despised, like Khan is.

Eubank used to be until he was humbled in his last few fights and then people got behind him.

I know I used to hate Calzaghe and alot of people here think im a fan but he has earned that respect out of me, at first I couldnt see the big deal, I remember when Eubank was gonna fight him and id watched his televised fights leading up to that, he fought some south American bloke and slapped him around with arm punches till the ref jumped in and I thought "big deal, Chris will eat him up" Then fuuck me if he doesnt drop Eubank in the first and just works and works and works Chris over!!

The Kessler fight really made me admire him, for all is techinal defficiencies he fights like a man who has to win and thats whats got him where he is, no complacency, working hard every round of every fight.

Hatton gets respect because he is so fan friendly and accessable, he also used to throw some nice combinations that caught the eye, like Tysons old right hook, jump to the left then right uppercut, I used to dislike him as well and wrote him off in the Tszyu fight but anyone who can work Tszyu over like that and take his power has a bit of something, look what Tszyu had just done to mitchell!!

Haye is yet to really earn any sort of following at the moment he bugs me, gives it all the chat but has already been shown up by an old Thompson, he may win me over in a heavy title fight but I have a feeling he wont

If Froch was to beat Kessler then he may win me over also but again, I dont see it happening.

I used to hate Hamed with a passion but as soon as he went to America, I actually found it funny that he still acted the wanker, fought like a diick and still knocked out a few good names, like he could just fight how he wanted and find some power, until he met Barrera that is

No shame in that though really, as Hamed was shown to be poorly prepared but he never took the rematch so must have robbed him of his confidence but I think if hed have actually boxed instead of believing his power would get him through I think he could have done Barrera, Marco has said that Hamed was stronger than Pac and when you see his legs its not hard to believe but his stupidity and arrogance with his power made him so easy to hit and he was always off balance and made to look stupid all the time but thats why I found it funny, he could do that and get away with it for a while