Most popular athlete IN THE WORLD ever to wear no. 23: Jordan or Beckham?

[QUOTE=Geandily]Thanks for proving my point :D


Here's my point in plain English(American) for you to understand:


All of you Euros are calling Americans arrogant for saying that Jordan is more popular than Beckham, then I call you out on the fact that you Euros only think Beckham is more popular because he's from Europe and then told you to get over yourselves, noting the fact that you had completely disregarded what people in Asia and South America think. Then you replied with this, bravo good sir![/QUOTE]
I never once said that Beckham is more popular than Jordan, just because he is European, so you can forget about calling me out on that. You can call others out who have mentioned it, but not me since I never mentioned such a thing.

I also never called any American arrogant for saying Jordan > Beckham in terms of popularity.

You might want to re-read my first post in this thread, or better yet you might want to read it for the first time since you probably haven't even read it at all judging by your ignorant and rude comments.

But Jordan's legacy with his shoes and items is the difference maker. Even in HK, Japan, Air Jordans are an fashionable items and you can see it all over the streets.

In the North America, Jordan's popularity blows away Beckhams,

but I think even in the most diehard of soccer countries, Beckhams popularity doesn't blow away Jordans (at least not as big a gap as Jordan over Beckham in the states)

Jordan more popular slightly I think.

[QUOTE=Kebab Stall]I never once said that Beckham is more popular than Jordan, just because he is European, so you can forget about calling me out on that. You can call others out who have mentioned it, but not me since I never mentioned such a thing.

I also never called any American arrogant for saying Jordan > Beckham in terms of popularity.

You might want to re-read my first post in this thread, or better yet you might want to read it for the first time since you probably haven't even read it at all judging by your ignorant and rude comments.[/QUOTE]

Read your first post and all of the other ones, me calling you out is still pretty applicable, you said that Beckham is probably more popular than Jordan and I explained why he's not and why you think that he is.





As for me proving myself wrong with the Googlefight thing: I FOUND A FLAW! People that watch Soccer(in the US) are more likely to be rich yuppies trying to act culturally aware, and thus more likely to be able to afford a computer and thus more likely to google his name (probably to buy a coffee mug with his face on it) "Look honey! I got that European F

it really depends on what how you define popularity. many football fans consider him overrated, overhyped and man utd fans consider him the traitor for bolting to real and so on.

but in worldwide terms, if we're talking about sheer fame, i still think football's bigger overall popularity (hell, the whole world watched the 1998 game vs argentina where he was sent off if nothing else) along with women (victoria and fashion stuff) tip it to beckham's advantage.
i think you could find more people in this world who doesn't know who jordan is than beckham.

Typical arrogant western hemisphere thinking, people in China watch the NBA all the time, shouldn't we watch their crazy ripoff of the NFL? Complete with slightly edited uniforms and team names?



Beckham is more popular in the western hemisphere but in the world? Jordan by far!

[QUOTE=Geandily]

Seeing as how people in China aren't allowed to use google for certain things[/QUOTE]

i really doubt michael jordan is one of them, you know.

and just FYI, i caught that "before we nuke you" remark before you edited it. so you really aren't in the situation to call anyone out about arrogance and hostility.

I think you would need to define popular, becuase there's a difference between these two scenarios:

1. Walk down the street and ask a random person 'Do you know Jordan/Beckham?"

2. Walk down the street and ask a random person 'Do you support Jordan/Beckham?'

Because the word popular, to me, seems to imply support and fandom rather than simply knowledge. I would say that more people supported Beckham than Jordan, but more people know Jordan than Beckham.

As for the actual question, no doubt that Jordan was more popular when wearing number 23, Beckham made his fame with no. 7.

Oh yeah, and things that are blocked by the Great Firewall of China are things like 'Democracy', 'Freedom' , 'Fulong something' you know, things contrary to the ideals of the Chinese government, I seriously doubt Michael Jordan is one of them.

[QUOTE]
NBA Basketball is more popular in China, Taiwan, The Philippines and Korea than any pro soccer league could ever dream of being, including their own domestic ones. [/QUOTE]

In Hong Kong (and I think China), basketball and football are probably 1a and 1b, the difference in popularity is miniscule (but we still suck at both in the olympics). But football gets a heck lot more coverage on tv, there is, what, 1 or 2 basketball games on the public tv airways (if lucky!) and about a football game every week (whenever it's the FC cup this, Championship that) and you can just take a look at the news channels, in the sports sections they devote more time to football than basketball can ever dream of.

ding ding ding thread decision:


America wins (as always)

[QUOTE=Geandily]I didn't mean to edit that out, sorry!




Sit down before we nuke you, you filthy, filthy fogbreathers.


edit: I guess you're already sitting down, When certain things are restricted by google, why would somebody living in China want to use it at all? Wouldn't they want to use a third party search engine instead?

I like how you resort to nitpicking when you realize that your entire argument has gone down the loo(I just made that word up, it's American for terlet)


Edit 2(after Brantonli's post below):Googlefight proving my point that people in China dont use google:

[url]http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Yao+Ming&word2=Michael+Jordan[/url][/QUOTE]

you can ramble about china and google as long as you want.
how many people in the world watch world cup and CL finals in comparison to any NBA finals ever played? how many people watched england-argentina games in 1998 and 2002, when beckham was sent off and scored a penalty respectively? it isn't even a valid comparison.
add beckham being victoria's husband and one of biggest sex and fashion icons amongst women worldwide and there lies your answer.

ask yourself, why did LA galaxy paid him 200 millions in a country that doesn't even care about football?

In the world...its David Beckham without question. I've seen the craziness with my own eyes.

I love the way geandily refers to europe in such a vague way, care to name what countries in particluar jordan is more famous then beckham?

btw Jordan >>>>>>>>>>>>beckham IMO

[QUOTE=Kebab Stall]That's delightful coming from a yank.[/QUOTE]
stfu you Ringo-sucker

[QUOTE=The Bynuminator]stfu you Ringo-sucker[/QUOTE]
:confusedshrug:

[QUOTE=Kebab Stall]:confusedshrug:[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://www.topnews.in/light/files/ringo-starr.jpg[/IMG]

I'll say Jordan..especially at his peeks.At their peeks,I don't think it's even close.

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