This is utter nonsense. He’s never even fought professionally outside the United States. Boxing is more popular globally than it is in the US. Mayweather is not.
Even I have done this. If you have an expat posting and are short of things to do or organized exercise you will usually find an local Hash House. I got fined for stretching before the run - a tin straight down - which gave me the burps for the next few miles.
Generally regarded as a pastime for drinkers with a running problem. 
There’s at least 297 greens in Northern Lancashire, apparently. It’s a moderately popular game in the UK (and Australia and New Zealand, I believe), especially with old retired men who go apeshit if kids step onto the green.
I’ve been in Scotland the past ten years or so and have noticed that lawn bowls is extremely popular here and with a wider participation than the one you quote for England (although I suspect you may be a little out of date even there).
I’ve just looked it up and modern lawn bowls appears to have been codified in Scotland in the 1860’s so maybe that has something to do with it. I was amused to read the games popularity has been put down to the contemporaneous invention of the lawn mower!
That may have to do with the fact that Olympic boxing is a boring game of pattycake. IIRC can you guess at the total number of matches in the Olympics in 2012 that ended in a knockout?
One, and it was in the women’s division.
Mayweather is not going to transcend anything for several reasons
[ul][li]He’s an asshole. Not an entertaining asshole like Ali, not a “gotta watch the trainwreck in slow motion” asshole like Tyson, not a wink-and-a-nod asshole like some fighters are to pretend at grudge matches - just a plain, garden-variety nasty-talking, woman beating, “let’s see how much I can get away with” asshole.[/li][li]He is boring to watch. He cannot knock out anyone he doesn’t hugely outclass.[/li][li]He ducked the obvious match - Manny Pacquiao - for years because he was scared of him, and this became so clear with Mayweather’s various jerking-demands that everyone understood that he was never going to allow himself to be seriously tested. Now that Manny has been badly knocked out, Mayweather is do his cock-teasing again. [/li][li]He is grossly over paid for the amount of entertainment he offers in the ring.[/li][li]Did I mention he was an asshole? [/li][/ul]Boxing needs a charismatic champion, hopefully a heavyweight, to bring back the days of Ali or the Fabulous Four (Hagler, Leonard, Duran, and Hearns) but fighters like that come along once in a generation. And the Klitschko robots don’t fit the bill.
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Shodan
We had Lennox Lewis, but the other heavyweights kept ducking him.
This proves NOTHING.
Take the guy with the 15th most Twitter followers among athletes, one notch above Mayweather.
Cesc Fabregas.
OK, how many Americans have the faintest idea who this is?
I rest my case.
One of those guys who makes intricately decorated and be-jeweled eggs?
Yeah, I noticed that.
Already plan to pick that up when I get paid again.
How do I get into that Rewards thing?
Right, because the world ends at the US border.
Most of the ~50 million who tuned in to watch the World Cup, probably. What is your point?
Get Forza Hub for your XBox, link your Live account to it, and enjoy. Otherwise, do it on your laptop. Go to the Forza website, click on Rewards in the menu bar, log in to your Microsoft account, and then claim your rewards.
You get more the further you’ve progressed in the games (2, 3, 4, and the Horizons all count towards progress).
There was a surge of interest in Calvinball, but before it could go national the official committee had to agree on the rules. I was optimistic when they agreed on the mask in 3 days. But after that, it’s been what, 15 years now and all they’ve agreed on is that they each want separate pizzas for lunch except for the guys who want Chinese and the guys who want subs and the guys who want salads.
Yeah, found that right before you posted. Thanks for telling me about it.
He’s one of the most famous players in the most widely watched sport in the world.
There are 7 billion other people in the world.
I’m told it’s big in New Zealand. And largely played by women.
Roller derby as it existed post-WWII was largely fakery/theatre and so was not a sport in the technical sense. There’s real roller derby out there, but it’s a recreation of the original sport, not a continuation of the WWE-like stuff we saw a few decades ago.
In addition to the billions of other people in the world statement that has already been made, I’m betting a lot more people than you know in the US realize who Fabregas is, especially considering that the Premier League on NBC is actually doing pretty nicely in the ratings (definitely better than NBC originally expected).
FTR for our American fans, Cesc Fabregas is a Spanish International soccer player and one of the most successful ones in recent times.
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Most of the ~50 million who tuned in to watch the World Cup, probably. What is your point?
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But Fabregas had a pretty poor World Cup. If you mean 2010, then well he did sweet fuck all then, except provide the cross to Iniesta for the winning goal in the final.
That makes sense as I watched a ton of World Cup matches in 2014 and 2010 and I’ve never heard of him. If you’d said Arjen Robben (though he may not even man any of his three “Official” Twitter accounts), then maybe more people would recognize it.