Americans hate british fighters. Why?

[mucho testosterone]

From the impression I get from this forum, and plenty of american boxers, a lot of yanks just don't like british boxers. I hate to generalise but all I ever hear is hate towards Hatton, Calzaghe, Lewis, Eubank, Benn, Bruno and pretty much every british fighter to cross the shores or have any sort of exposure. I can't explain it, so I was hoping someone would enlighten me, because it seems none of you have a problem with Irish Fighters, and all you yanks with a drop of Irish blood in you all of a sudden feel the need to wear tartan! I'm half Irish myself and I don't feel any different from the the next guy. I'm confused

I like Hatton, I respect the way Calzaghe handled Lacy, I of course like Eubank,don't know enough about Benn.

I just don't like LL ever since I saw the Mercer fight. Always felt that he was way way overrated and felt that he was a big strong fighter with mediocre capability. He made a name for himself by handling has beens, shot fighters, and guys who really have proven over the years to be fringe contenders (eg Golotas and Rahmans).

[raleights]

From the impression I get from this forum, and plenty of american boxers, a lot of yanks just don't like british boxers. I hate to generalise but all I ever hear is hate towards Hatton, Calzaghe, Lewis, Eubank, Benn, Bruno and pretty much every british fighter to cross the shores or have any sort of exposure. I can't explain it, so I was hoping someone would enlighten me, because it seems none of you have a problem with Irish Fighters, and all you yanks with a drop of Irish blood in you all of a sudden feel the need to wear tartan! I'm half Irish myself and I don't feel any different from the the next guy. I'm confused

isn't the term 'you yanks' supposed to be condescending?

[Lords Gym]

[CityOfGod]

Countries aside - i enjoy the 'people's warrior'

Felix Trinidad - PR god

Ricky Hatton - pride of manchester

Arturo Gatti - Thunder is a legend

Paquiao - the whole of the far east's champion

Barrera - mexican warrior

I also love the 'bad guy'

Mike Tyson

Chris Eubank

Carl Froch

One thing i dont like are the w*nkers who court the attention in a plastic manner- when really they only care about themselves:

Lennox Lewis (Londoner my arrse, suited him very well at the time for cash reasons)

Floyd Mayweather (ego maniac?)

[superheavyrhun]

From the impression I get from this forum, and plenty of american boxers, a lot of yanks just don't like british boxers. I hate to generalise but all I ever hear is hate towards Hatton, Calzaghe, Lewis, Eubank, Benn, Bruno and pretty much every british fighter to cross the shores or have any sort of exposure. I can't explain it, so I was hoping someone would enlighten me, because it seems none of you have a problem with Irish Fighters, and all you yanks with a drop of Irish blood in you all of a sudden feel the need to wear tartan! I'm half Irish myself and I don't feel any different from the the next guy. I'm confused

isn't the term 'you yanks' supposed to be condescending?

It seems to be the simple problem that British boxing just has little or no exposure in the United States, so when they look at the record of Bristish boxers and dont recognise the names of British or Europeans on their records, then they say they haven't fought anyone. And as the US has the largest pool of boxers in any country, then they will produce a large amount of all fighters, so naturally most of the fights will be domestic, so those are the recognisable names. And because of distance problems, none but the best of British fighters will fight in the USA. Thus my argument is that Americans will call British boxers overrated until some quality Americans get their bums on the canvas.

As for the Irish, they tend to do a lot of their fighting in America, like our lad John Duddy, and that's why they are often preferred in America. That or Ireland were never the colonial oppressors, and ruled America from the capital city's parliament....

[raleights]

Why would we wanna watch British boxing when the world series of darts is on tv!

[superheavyrhun]

Why would we wanna watch British boxing when the world series of darts is on tv!

Phil Taylor and Andy Fordham....those are the real British Heavyweights

[Tito BHB]

Not me! look at my hat I even wear it in support for our UK Fighters!

haha cc bro!!
jus member you'll av to take it off to get into bars!! :P
peace

[Tito BHB]

i tend to think americans or alot of other countries like to see style and perfection .... which is sweet as hell!!
but english fans like the whole rough style hard punching n stuff....
nigel benn,ricky hatton for instance... nothing polished jus pure entertainment...
cant really genuinely say i think its anything else but that !!
peace

[superheavyrhun]

i tend to think americans or alot of other countries like to see style and perfection .... which is sweet as hell!!
but english fans like the whole rough style hard punching n stuff....
nigel benn,ricky hatton for instance... nothing polished jus pure entertainment...
cant really genuinely say i think its anything else but that !!
peace

yeah, you say that....but if you look at one of the most popular fighters of all time in America...Arturo Gatti. All heart and brawling. Or is he the exception to the rule?

[Tito BHB]

i tend to think americans or alot of other countries like to see style and perfection .... which is sweet as hell!!
but english fans like the whole rough style hard punching n stuff....
nigel benn,ricky hatton for instance... nothing polished jus pure entertainment...
cant really genuinely say i think its anything else but that !!
peace

yeah, you say that....but if you look at one of the most popular fighters of all time in America...Arturo Gatti. All heart and brawling. Or is he the exception to the rule?

lol there is gatti no doubt he a big fan favourite.... but one... he canadian and italian and just like tito was very popular in america ..because alot of puerto ricans...( though tito is the man)
arturo has a lot of canadian and italian american fans..
aswell as just bieng extremely entertaining!! not taking anything away from gatti
but also he and others like him are way outnumbered by the the fanfare given to the likes of
roy jones jr, oscar de la hoya, floyd mayweather, pernel whitaker, etc...
plus very few english fighters get the recognition or promotion to get big fights in america etc... its like
were half a world away
lol
peace

[undefeated]

i dont think any1 hates them--their just kinda there---boxing is dominated by americans--all the greatest boxers have generally come from America. througfht out time britian has had good boxers--but for every good british champion the American champsion have been a little better--cept lewis

[raleights]

i tend to think americans or alot of other countries like to see style and perfection .... which is sweet as hell!!
but english fans like the whole rough style hard punching n stuff....
nigel benn,ricky hatton for instance... nothing polished jus pure entertainment...
cant really genuinely say i think its anything else but that !!
peace

yeah, you say that....but if you look at one of the most popular fighters of all time in America...Arturo Gatti. All heart and brawling. Or is he the exception to the rule?

thats 1 man in how many thousands?

[Tito BHB]

i dont think any1 hates them--their just kinda there---boxing is dominated by americans--all the greatest boxers have generally come from America. througfht out time britian has had good boxers--but for every good british champion the American champsion have been a little better--cept lewis

they dont call it land of opportunity for nothing....
theres prob alot of good english fighters who missed out on big money because they never got given the chance with a big promoter n shit.... i seen a few good brits that were domestically pretty big bout 10 years ago... given the right promotion and fights they could have been big....
i think its jus the lack of opps... n they not hated... jus not cared for cos they not known..
peace

[Hulk]

One reason why I dislike or hate most UK fighters is that all the Brits on here completely overhype them, and throw BS decisions, and any success at all from a UK fighter in Americans faces. Also its frustrating when guys like Hatton and Calzaghe NEVER fight out of their home country, or rarely their home city. I freely admit that I dislike Calzaghe, Hatton, and Hated NAZ. I'd say I grew to respect Lennox Lewis, and sorta like Scott Harrison, he is a warrior. It's just that Brits love to shove close or BS decisions in our faces and exaggerate a good UK fighter, when a good UK fighter occasionally hits it big. I remember how many Brits were pretty much guranteeing that Robin Reid was gonna kick Jeff Lacy's ass, then when he was crushed, they all disapeared until Lacy vs Calzaghe, then came back to once again rub it in Americans faces. It just seems like UK fans are...just snobbish bastards for the most part.