Hearn crows about UK boxing fans being more passionate than U.S fans

By Boxing News - 02/17/2013 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: With little to be happy about last night in watching his fighter Gavin Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO’s) get totally blown out in embarrassing fashion by WBC lightweight champion Adrien Broner (26-0, 22 KO’s), Eddie Hearn, the promoter for Rees, could only tweet about how much more passionate the typical British fans were compared to the U.S fans.

Hearns said on his twitter “On reflection, being at a U.S show makes me realize how lucky we are to have such passionate fight fans. It’s such a strange atmosphere at U.S shows. The atmosphere that is being created at UK fights right now is incomparable to anywhere in the World. I understand but there is still not the same passion.”

Oh brother, just because the U.S boxing fans aren’t singing football songs, blowing horns 24/7, and yapping nonstop, Hearn is crowing about how the Brits are more passionate. I don’t see it that way. It’s not the noise that makes fans more devoted; it’s what goes on internally. U.S fans are just more reserved, they keep inside their heads instead of blabbing loudly and creating disturbances.

The fans care about those around them, and they don’t want to spoil it by being obnoxious loudmouths. They’re not going to pull out a horn and start blowing it during the entire three hour fight card, and they’re not going to sing the same song over and over again until the fans around them want to strangle them. The U.S boxing fans have been brought along in a society where fans are more under control during sporting events.

I don’t see it being of importance of whether a crowd is loud or quiet. I mean, if Rees didn’t have the talent to beat Broner, it wasn’t going to matter whether the crowd was yapping nonstop or quiet as church mice. Rees going to get whipped no matter what the circumstances is. If you don’t have the talent, it doesn’t matter how loud the crowd is. You’re still going to lose.

The difference I see with the loud crowds is they tend to cheer even missed punches from their heroes, and I think this has an effect on the judges because we often see home fighters winning fights that they appeared to lose badly. The only way you can account for that is the judges assume that the home fighter is doing better than he actually is based on the constant screaming from the fans. But if you win a controversial decision that the rest of the world doesn’t recognize, then what good is it? It’s worthless.



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