Haye v Klit - Negotiations underway confirms IBF

[generalbulldog]

Sorry to say this but I don't think the HW championship is the biggest prize in sports anymore, maybe at 1 time like say 45-50 years ago.

In America it's all about the Superbowl and it has been that way for the past 40+ years or so.

And I'm guessing winning the World Cup would be the biggest prize in sports today since soccer is the number 1 sport in the world.

And while Ali is definitely very popular worldwide, I'm thinking Pele or Maradona may surpass him since soccer is far more popular, if you're factoring in the Latin American countries and Asian countries.

[rjj tszyu]

Sorry to say this but I don't think the HW championship is the biggest prize in sports anymore, maybe at 1 time like say 45-50 years ago.

In America it's all about the Superbowl and it has been that way for the past 40+ years or so.

And I'm guessing winning the World Cup would be the biggest prize in sports today since soccer is the number 1 sport in the world.

And while Ali is definitely very popular worldwide, I'm thinking Pele or Maradona may surpass him since soccer is far more popular, if you're factoring in the Latin American countries and Asian countries.

Well boxing is back upto 2nd in the most watched sports in the world again.

Now I really know nothing about your Football so I don't want you to think I'm being ignorant here, but is the Superbowl that took place in say 2002 better remembered than Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson? Like I say I really don't know so i'm not being in any way funny here.

[generalbulldog]

Sorry to say this but I don't think the HW championship is the biggest prize in sports anymore, maybe at 1 time like say 45-50 years ago.

In America it's all about the Superbowl and it has been that way for the past 40+ years or so.

And I'm guessing winning the World Cup would be the biggest prize in sports today since soccer is the number 1 sport in the world.

And while Ali is definitely very popular worldwide, I'm thinking Pele or Maradona may surpass him since soccer is far more popular, if you're factoring in the Latin American countries and Asian countries.

Well boxing is back upto 2nd in the most watched sports in the world again.

Now I really know nothing about your Football so I don't want you to think I'm being ignorant here, but is the Superbowl that took place in say 2002 better remembered than Lennox Lewis vs Mike Tyson? Like I say I really don't know so i'm not being in any way funny here.

Yes, by far. The NFL has been the number 1 sport in America since the early 1960s or so. The Superbowl every year does massive ratings and usually establishes new records in views, whether it's percentage of households or raw numbers in America. The Lombardi Trophy of the NFL is considered to be America's top prize in sports. The HW championship is just something to be view at as like say Tiger Woods winning the Masters or Pete Sampras winning Wimbledon, it gets some coverage and a few Americans may be excited about it but not big. An example would be when Hasim Rahman ko Lennox Lewis and won the HW championship in 2001, it got mentioned but wasn't considered to be big or anything.

ANd put it this way, it was estimated that 2-3 billion people watched the 2006 soccer World Cup. ANd I'm guessing the 2010 World Cup will either post similar numbers or better. So I'm guessing in terms of worldwide, winning the world cup would be the number 1 prize in sports.

I love boxing as much as teh next guy on here, but the reality is that the HW championship doesn't have the prestige it once had in America, even when Tyson and Holyfield were in their prime, the HW championship wasn't view as being the top prize.