Michael Buffer: British fans are the best, american fans arent real fans

[Combat Talk Radio]

UK fans will stay and watch their fighter go down swinging and STILL support them. (Hatton/Senchenko)

US fans will see their fighter getting outclassed and get up and leave midway, blaming the superior boxer for being "boring". (Mayweather/Guerrero)

[Ray*]

I call American fans neutral fans. Most of them have a second passport, or there parents were born in a different country, so they mostly associate themselves with those boxers. You can always spot a real American fan, they would support anything American through and through.

[mathed]

I tend to agree with Buffer. Look at the landscape of boxing in America right now. Racism is running rampant amongst fans hoping for an emerging star that they can claim as "their own", boxing on HBO and Showtime are dwindling down to a few decent events per year with decreasing budgets in each successive year, boxers are more concerned with making big bucks for non-threatening fights as opposed to taking on the best competition they can get, and promoters don't market fighters like they used to.

Boxing is slowly dying in America, sadly but if the industry as a whole doesn't re-evaluate it's approach to marketing, it will undoubtedly continue to atrophy.

[al-Xander]

Fans would be lucky to see fighters in America fight twice a year now. Look at them, Broner, Thurman, Garcia, Peterson, etc., they don't have any fight scheduled yet as if they incurred life threatening injuries in their last fight. Meaning, their next fight would be around late this year, calculating anything in between like negotiations, promotions, training, etc. Either nobody cares or the funds are just not there. How can casuals follow the sport with an abysmal condition like this?

[AL_Camino]

Leeds fans have to be the nuttiest, 12,000 of them going bat**** insane throughout a Josh Warrington 12 round borefest

lmao atleast they can still have a good time i guess

[Vegemil]

I don't know from personal experience since I've never been to a british event but from what I see in the press conferences and matches the British seem pretty harsh towards anybody that isn't European. I hear massive boos every time somebody gets into the arena and for me that's not what being a fan is. Just seems like a bunch of ****riding casuals but I haven't been there in person so I don't know.