Boxing is dead in the USA. uk is the new Mecca.

[A.K]

In the name of interests our top ten sports:

1, football

2, baseball

3, basketball

4, hockey

5, soccer

6, tennis

7, golf

8, pro wrestling

9, races

10, badminton.

....****ing badminton out ranks boxing in the US. So sad.

Actually NBA is ontop right now with NFL slightly behindit followed by UFC, baseball fell off years ago.. and I would put boxing right after hockey cause no one in the US cares for soccer and tennis and golf are just there.

[Marchegiano]

Actually NBA is ontop right now with NFL slightly behindit followed by UFC, baseball fell off years ago.. and I would put boxing right after hockey cause no one in the US cares for soccer and tennis and golf are just there.

I should have sourced that post, my bad.

I didn't exactly research the subject, that was just my first hit. I'm not familiar with sporteology.com they could easily be well off. I didn't check the date, nor did I vet the article. just some lazy c/p from the first hit on a search.

I think it's kinda funny you take issue with soccer and tennis but not badminton. I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US.

I expect extreme sports to be a top ten, but apparently the US likes grandpa sports more....****ing badminton

[A.K]

I should have sourced that post, my bad.

I didn't exactly research the subject, that was just my first hit. I'm not familiar with sporteology.com they could easily be well off. I didn't check the date, nor did I vet the article. just some lazy c/p from the first hit on a search.

I think it's kinda funny you take issue with soccer and tennis but not badminton. I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US.

I expect extreme sports to be a top ten, but apparently the US likes grandpa sports more....****ing badminton

I honestly don't even know what that is lol.. America watches poker as a sport too

[Ryn0]

Joshua was truly mainstream for the UK. Prior to the fight, every single mainstream newspaper(the equivalent of the NEW YORK TIMES, CHICAGO, LA ETC ETC) was reporting it as a focal story. Now it's even bigger.

One of the big reasons for this is the lack of competition in the sporting World in the UK.

In the UK and Europe, it's just football (soccer) and than 10 tiers below will be the rest of the sports. England don't even have basketball. So it's a lot easier for boxing to achieve #2 status and generate attention. Easier to share the pie when it's just football.


At this stage in the USA, the competition is way too much for boxing to ever thrive again. NFL/MLB/NBA/UFC/MMA etc etc.

Just not going to happen.

Boxing in the UK is experiencing a good period but it's not the #2 sport.

Rugby Union, Formula 1, Tennis, Athletics, Cricket as well as football are all bigger in viewership & revenue in general. And while they might not be PPV, they are mostly (apart from Wimbledon) all now behind the Sky/BT paywall which is pretty damn expensive.

Boxing is some way off but Joshua, Fury, Froch etc. have gone some way to improving the health of the sport in recent years and it'll start doing even better.

[Kuyukut]

not until the brits learn how to brush their few remaining teeth!

[THC]

I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US.

Badminton is HUGE in Asia. I suspect the viewership in China alone matches any of the top major team sports in the US.

[Double]

I agree, the number 1 indicator is that the top promoter in boxing, Eddie Hearn, is from the UK

[Marchegiano]

I honestly don't even know what that is lol.. America watches poker as a sport too

It's sort of like tennis, it's more of an Asian sport like THC says probably bigger in Asia than football is in the US.

Badminton is HUGE in Asia. I suspect the viewership in China alone matches any of the top major team sports in the US.

[THC]

Like boxing, badminton originated in the UK, IIRC. It was exported to Asia during the early 20th century.

[HAMMER77777]

I should have sourced that post, my bad.

I didn't exactly research the subject, that was just my first hit. I'm not familiar with sporteology.com they could easily be well off. I didn't check the date, nor did I vet the article. just some lazy c/p from the first hit on a search.

I think it's kinda funny you take issue with soccer and tennis but not badminton. I was blown away by badminton....who on the whole planet gives a **** about badminton let alone the US.

I expect extreme sports to be a top ten, but apparently the US likes grandpa sports more....****ing badminton

In terms of TV ratings, NFL, MLB, NBA will always be the top 3, in that order. But so what? Everything isn't a competition. Boxing, tennis (the 2 sports that I Watch the most) can certainly be top 10. The US Open tennis, as well as smaller tournaments in Miami, Cincinnati routinely sell out. Boxing sells out in places like MSG, Atlantic City, heck even Bismarck ND (Virgil Hill's Last Fight). Boxing isn't going anywhere. And whats wrong with badminton LOL? Fun game, if ya try it!