Is Pacman More Popular than de la Hoya Was?

[:::PSL:::]

Pacquiao will have to wear thong and fishnet stockings to match Oscar's popularity.

[Julius Rain]

I think Pac is more known in Asia then Oscar is, I dont think that is up for debate. In america I think Oscar is still up there but their fight gave Pac more popularity then it gave Oscar. Oscar was more popular going into the fight but Pac putting on that kind of performance infront of millions of fans and people who knew Oscar. Those who knew Oscar now know Pac.

I dont get how some are saying pac is only big in the Philippines? Not only does the Philippines take pride in Pac but so does many of the other countries in ASIA. MMA have always been big in ASIA and if you follow the MMA world, many will mention boxing only because of guess who -> PACMAN!

I think anybody who gets a visit from a man like Denzel Washington is pretty damn special.

[CutMeMick]

I find it funny that people equate "popularity" to what is accomplished just in the ring. While that certainly may hold true for boxing/sports fans...an even bigger component of what makes an athlete incredibly popular outside of the realm of their particular sport...is how they are marketed. How you are marketed comes down to basically two things aside from your sport specific skill. it comes down to your persona and looks. How easily marketable can an athlete be...can their look/personality SELL things or get people who are normally not interested that particular sport to get excited about the athlete and the products they endorse. There have been just a handful of athletes that have had that tremendous cross over appeal. People like David Beckham and Michael Jordan come immediately to mind. Those are athletes that almost anyone...whether here in the states or in Africa...will instantly recognize. Not only because of their on field accomplishments, but as much for how widely marketed they are (commercials, endorsements, clothing, etc.). In boxing, it is particularly rare to find superstars with that kind of cross over appeal. Oscar and Sugar Ray Leonard (to a lesser extent)...are the boxers in the last two decades that have attained that kind of popularity. Pac certainly is popular among boxing fans and is obviously a supersar in his hometown. But he is nowhere close to being a global superstar. He simply cannot be marketed the same way as someone like Oscar. Not now and probably not ever.

Brilliant...
I can just about lock this thread up after this post.
Very well put...

[Kev]

I find it funny that people equate "popularity" to what is accomplished just in the ring. While that certainly may hold true for boxing/sports fans...an even bigger component of what makes an athlete incredibly popular outside of the realm of their particular sport...is how they are marketed. How you are marketed comes down to basically two things aside from your sport specific skill. it comes down to your persona and looks. How easily marketable can an athlete be...can their look/personality SELL things or get people who are normally not interested that particular sport to get excited about the athlete and the products they endorse. There have been just a handful of athletes that have had that tremendous cross over appeal. People like David Beckham and Michael Jordan come immediately to mind. Those are athletes that almost anyone...whether here in the states or in Africa...will instantly recognize. Not only because of their on field accomplishments, but as much for how widely marketed they are (commercials, endorsements, clothing, etc.). In boxing, it is particularly rare to find superstars with that kind of cross over appeal. Oscar and Sugar Ray Leonard (to a lesser extent)...are the boxers in the last two decades that have attained that kind of popularity. Pac certainly is popular among boxing fans and is obviously a supersar in his hometown. But he is nowhere close to being a global superstar. He simply cannot be marketed the same way as someone like Oscar. Not now and probably not ever.

Brilliant...
I can just about lock this thread up after this post.
Very well put...

For the record Oscar De La Hoya has NEVER been a household name in Britain. None of my nonboxing friends will have a clue who he is.

He's huge in America, and may well be in Spanish speaking countries to that share a heritage with Mexico I don't know. But globally (in britain at least) he's not even close to a Mike Tyson or Roberto Duran or an Ali imo.

[milmascaras1]

the main reason why pacquiao is like God-like in his country is because they don't have any sports stars there! if the philippines had multiple megasports stars, do you think he'd be as popular as he is now? of course he wouldn't. those poor people, until now, had nobody to cheer for. it's good that pacquiao arrived in the philippines because that was basically a dead country, sports wise.

here in the U.S., we can pick from hundreds of sports stars in baseball, hockey, football, boxing, basketball and others. boxing isn't a mainstream sport here anymore. boxers like mike tyson, muhammad ali, oscar, sugar ray leonard are household names and pacquiao will never have the popularity of these four boxers. the only ones who know pacquiao here are boxing fans and his filipino fans. maybe pacquiao is more recognized in asia, big deal! the U.S. is the mecca of boxing and this is where popularity counts the most because this is where the biggest fans live and where the boxing money is.

[mnmc10]

the main reason why pacquiao is like God-like in his country is because they don't have any sports stars there! if the philippines had multiple megasports stars, do you think he'd be as popular as he is now? of course he wouldn't. those poor people, until now, had nobody to cheer for. it's good that pacquiao arrived in the philippines because that was basically a dead country, sports wise.

i feel like you are looking down at filipinos. pac isnt the only one who had brought pride to the philippines.

Bowler Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, for being the "Greatest Filipino Athlete of All Time", "Athlete of the Century", and "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium"; for receiving the prestigious International Olympic Committee (IOC) President's Trophy; for winning over 100 tournaments, including four World Cups and two other prestigious international titles; for winning an Asiad gold medal; and for still being an active player

Shooter Jethro "the Jet" Dionisio, for being considered the world's fastest shooter and for being a six-time world champion in pistol shooting; and for still being an active player

Billiard player Efren "Bata" Reyes, for being declared as the best billiard player of all time; for winning the World 8-Ball championship five times; for clinching the 1999 World 9-Ball title; for winning over 100 international tournaments; and for still being an active player
the philippines also has the best pool players in the world.

there are tons of athletes here in the philippines that is doing great worldwide.


now going back to the topic, pac is not as popular as odlh. looks plays a huge factor too and pac is nowhere near as handsome as odlh.

[p4pking]

the main reason why pacquiao is like God-like in his country is because they don't have any sports stars there! if the philippines had multiple megasports stars, do you think he'd be as popular as he is now? of course he wouldn't. those poor people, until now, had nobody to cheer for. it's good that pacquiao arrived in the philippines because that was basically a dead country, sports wise.

i feel like you are looking down at filipinos. pac isnt the only one who had brought pride to the philippines.

Bowler Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, for being the "Greatest Filipino Athlete of All Time", "Athlete of the Century", and "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium"; for receiving the prestigious International Olympic Committee (IOC) President's Trophy; for winning over 100 tournaments, including four World Cups and two other prestigious international titles; for winning an Asiad gold medal; and for still being an active player

Shooter Jethro "the Jet" Dionisio, for being considered the world's fastest shooter and for being a six-time world champion in pistol shooting; and for still being an active player

Billiard player Efren "Bata" Reyes, for being declared as the best billiard player of all time; for winning the World 8-Ball championship five times; for clinching the 1999 World 9-Ball title; for winning over 100 international tournaments; and for still being an active player
the philippines also has the best pool players in the world.

there are tons of athletes here in the philippines that is doing great worldwide.


now going back to the topic, pac is not as popular as odlh. looks plays a huge factor too and pac is nowhere near as handsome as odlh.

[mafiajoey]

When Oscar lost his fans were still behind him. They still loved him and his haters still hated him. When Pac loses you will see a drop big time. Especially on this forum and many other forums where Pac Land obsessions rave an rant on the internet. Most of his fans will diminish and 20yrs from now he will just be like Barry Bonds with a huge asterisk.....if not for roids...for beating people on there way out. Maybe a *Catch Weight / Weight Drain Asterisk. (: Can't wait to see his little lovers come to his defense in about 30 seconds lol

[:::PSL:::]

the main reason why pacquiao is like God-like in his country is because they don't have any sports stars there! if the philippines had multiple megasports stars, do you think he'd be as popular as he is now? of course he wouldn't. those poor people, until now, had nobody to cheer for. it's good that pacquiao arrived in the philippines because that was basically a dead country, sports wise.

i feel like you are looking down at filipinos. pac isnt the only one who had brought pride to the philippines.

Bowler Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, for being the "Greatest Filipino Athlete of All Time", "Athlete of the Century", and "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium"; for receiving the prestigious International Olympic Committee (IOC) President's Trophy; for winning over 100 tournaments, including four World Cups and two other prestigious international titles; for winning an Asiad gold medal; and for still being an active player

Shooter Jethro "the Jet" Dionisio, for being considered the world's fastest shooter and for being a six-time world champion in pistol shooting; and for still being an active player

Billiard player Efren "Bata" Reyes, for being declared as the best billiard player of all time; for winning the World 8-Ball championship five times; for clinching the 1999 World 9-Ball title; for winning over 100 international tournaments; and for still being an active player
the philippines also has the best pool players in the world.

there are tons of athletes here in the philippines that is doing great worldwide.


now going back to the topic, pac is not as popular as odlh. looks plays a huge factor too and pac is nowhere near as handsome as odlh.

I think both Tim Tebow and Tim Lincecum were born in the Philippines.

[milmascaras1]

so now tim tebow is filipino? WTF?

[Julius Rain]

the main reason why pacquiao is like God-like in his country is because they don't have any sports stars there! if the philippines had multiple megasports stars, do you think he'd be as popular as he is now? of course he wouldn't. those poor people, until now, had nobody to cheer for. it's good that pacquiao arrived in the philippines because that was basically a dead country, sports wise.

i feel like you are looking down at filipinos. pac isnt the only one who had brought pride to the philippines.

Bowler Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno, for being the "Greatest Filipino Athlete of All Time", "Athlete of the Century", and "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium"; for receiving the prestigious International Olympic Committee (IOC) President's Trophy; for winning over 100 tournaments, including four World Cups and two other prestigious international titles; for winning an Asiad gold medal; and for still being an active player

Shooter Jethro "the Jet" Dionisio, for being considered the world's fastest shooter and for being a six-time world champion in pistol shooting; and for still being an active player

Billiard player Efren "Bata" Reyes, for being declared as the best billiard player of all time; for winning the World 8-Ball championship five times; for clinching the 1999 World 9-Ball title; for winning over 100 international tournaments; and for still being an active player
the philippines also has the best pool players in the world.

there are tons of athletes here in the philippines that is doing great worldwide.


now going back to the topic, pac is not as popular as odlh. looks plays a huge factor too and pac is nowhere near as handsome as odlh.

I think both Tim Tebow and Tim Lincecum were born in the Philippines.

Both are Philippine citizens but only Lincecum carries the Pnoy bloodline.

[generalbulldog]

I find it funny that people equate "popularity" to what is accomplished just in the ring. While that certainly may hold true for boxing/sports fans...an even bigger component of what makes an athlete incredibly popular outside of the realm of their particular sport...is how they are marketed. How you are marketed comes down to basically two things aside from your sport specific skill. it comes down to your persona and looks. How easily marketable can an athlete be...can their look/personality SELL things or get people who are normally not interested that particular sport to get excited about the athlete and the products they endorse. There have been just a handful of athletes that have had that tremendous cross over appeal. People like David Beckham and Michael Jordan come immediately to mind. Those are athletes that almost anyone...whether here in the states or in Africa...will instantly recognize. Not only because of their on field accomplishments, but as much for how widely marketed they are (commercials, endorsements, clothing, etc.). In boxing, it is particularly rare to find superstars with that kind of cross over appeal. Oscar and Sugar Ray Leonard (to a lesser extent)...are the boxers in the last two decades that have attained that kind of popularity. Pac certainly is popular among boxing fans and is obviously a supersar in his hometown. But he is nowhere close to being a global superstar. He simply cannot be marketed the same way as someone like Oscar. Not now and probably not ever.

Brilliant...
I can just about lock this thread up after this post.
Very well put...

For the record Oscar De La Hoya has NEVER been a household name in Britain. None of my nonboxing friends will have a clue who he is.

He's huge in America, and may well be in Spanish speaking countries to that share a heritage with Mexico I don't know. But globally (in britain at least) he's not even close to a Mike Tyson or Roberto Duran or an Ali imo.

This is very interesting about Oscar not being a household name there. Considering that Britain has a very good history in boxing and this is where modern boxing originated.

[Kev]

I find it funny that people equate "popularity" to what is accomplished just in the ring. While that certainly may hold true for boxing/sports fans...an even bigger component of what makes an athlete incredibly popular outside of the realm of their particular sport...is how they are marketed. How you are marketed comes down to basically two things aside from your sport specific skill. it comes down to your persona and looks. How easily marketable can an athlete be...can their look/personality SELL things or get people who are normally not interested that particular sport to get excited about the athlete and the products they endorse. There have been just a handful of athletes that have had that tremendous cross over appeal. People like David Beckham and Michael Jordan come immediately to mind. Those are athletes that almost anyone...whether here in the states or in Africa...will instantly recognize. Not only because of their on field accomplishments, but as much for how widely marketed they are (commercials, endorsements, clothing, etc.). In boxing, it is particularly rare to find superstars with that kind of cross over appeal. Oscar and Sugar Ray Leonard (to a lesser extent)...are the boxers in the last two decades that have attained that kind of popularity. Pac certainly is popular among boxing fans and is obviously a supersar in his hometown. But he is nowhere close to being a global superstar. He simply cannot be marketed the same way as someone like Oscar. Not now and probably not ever.

Brilliant...
I can just about lock this thread up after this post.
Very well put...

For the record Oscar De La Hoya has NEVER been a household name in Britain. None of my nonboxing friends will have a clue who he is.

He's huge in America, and may well be in Spanish speaking countries to that share a heritage with Mexico I don't know. But globally (in britain at least) he's not even close to a Mike Tyson or Roberto Duran or an Ali imo.

This is very interesting about Oscar not being a household name there. Considering that Britain has a very good history in boxing and this is where modern boxing originated.

Boxing really isn't that big over here any more sadly. The two overseas fighters that everybody knows are Tyson and Holyfield. Then it would be Leonard, Hagler, Duran and Hearns.

De La Hoya, Jones Jr, Hopkins are not really big names. Actually Hopkins and Jones Jr are better known over here as they fought Calzaghe.

Pacqauio isn't a big name either to be fair. You go down the average high street and ask people who Oscar and Manny are. Not many will have a clue. EVERYONE will know who Tyson is.

Oh and Ali of course, and Foreman, possibly Frazier.

Sugar Ray Robinson is less well known than any of those heavyweight guys.

[Andre]

Pacquiao will have to wear thong and fishnet stockings to match Oscar's popularity.

You want infamous or famous?

[Violent Demise]

Pacquiao will have to wear thong and fishnet stockings to match Oscar's popularity.

Oh he's working his way there