Canelo successfully counters GGG. [Image Source]

Through the news and media, the USA has always been shown to us in the UK as our bigger, faster, stronger counterpart. Plus, growing up you guys got ALL the cool shit first.

That said, I can probably count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually wished I was an American:

Number 1 – After I watched ‘You Got Served’.

Number 2 – After I heard you guys get to supersize your McDonalds orders.

Number 3 – Trick number, there’s no number 3. Or at least, there wasn’t…

On September 15th, thanks to Fathom Events and Golden Boy Promotions, American boxing fans can travel to one of 450 cinemas across the nation to see (maybe) the biggest fight this year on the big screen.

For around $20, fans are given the option to sit in comfort, surround themselves with hundreds of other excited and like-minded fans and watch Canelo beat on GGG (grip…weakening…impartiality…slipping…) while they munch on salty, salty popcorn. And who doesn’t love popcorn??

Hearing GGG land bombs on Canelo in Cinema surround sound? Priceless. [Image Source]

I can only speculate how a cinema would handle an event like this, but my imagining is that the noise and excitement levels will be a little…restrained - compared to a bar anyway. But, seeing as how an increasing number of cinemas are selling alcohol now, the theatre could actually turn out to be the spot on fight night. Or if not, at the very least it’ll be an experience. Albeit a slightly juxtaposed one.

Compare that to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean now, and we get a very different image.

On September 15th, thanks to high PPV costs and free public showings, English boxing fans can travel to one of the thousands of drinking establishments across the nation and battle it out for floorspace and oxygen, all while watching Canelo's redemption.

Taxi prices will rocket and the cold city-centre streets, slick with 4am dew and vomit will play concert stage to the loudest, rowdiest, uninterested-in-boxing-but-interested-in-a-fight fans that you’d ever want to see.

A shop front or two might be smashed in, police will be out in full force, and there’ll be more mini-skirt clad girls holding their high-heels and screaming an indecipherable version of English at any combination of streetfights, boyfriends, or bouncers than you can shake a Yorkshire Pudding at.


Nope. Still no Number Three.


I heard that the first GGG vs Canelo fight was shown in US theaters; how was that? Did anyone go and see it? I'm actually really curious...