Originally posted by ИATAS206
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When did all the best American heavyweights start playing in the NFL?
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Here's how I think it boils down over the ages.
1930s: Look ma, I'm athletically gifted and a whiz on the football field. I think I'll go into boxing and make my fortune.
1950s: Well what do you know, I can run real fast, dunk a basketball and benchpress a fridge. Looks like boxing is the only logical choice for me.
1970s: I'm seven feet tall, I'm quicker than a speeding bullet and my fast-twitch muscle fibres are off the chart! Look out boxing, here I come!
2000s: Yeah, getting hit in the head for a living doesn't sound so appealing. And what exactly are the promotion opportunities? Any pension plans?
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Originally posted by Malius View PostNFL has the shortest schedule of all the professional sports and great pay for the schedule. It also has a great history with a great support network from college and universities.
Although most don't make it, getting a top grade education for free is well worth it over boxing. Plus I don't see why when the finish college/university they would be early 20's so there is time to switch to boxing if they know they are not gonna make it professionally in the NFL.
You can't just put on the gloves in your late teens or early twenties after a childhood spent playing another sport and expect to become, say, middleweight champion of the world and earn a number 3 spot on the RING pound for pound list.
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Originally posted by Paclan View PostTo put it simply, because Boxing is dead in America.
The physically gifted athletes are not choosing to devote their lives to boxing, which is very high risk and very low reward sport, when there are more lucrative and safer sports, that can actually give them a life and a livelihood and a free education.
If you're 6'9 240 pounds an an amazing athlete,
and you have a choice between Football/basketball, which will give you a free ride in college and a multi million dollar pro, or average paying amatuer carreer.
And boxing, where you wont make any money whatsoever for at least few years, and you have to get a job on the side just to stay alive
What's the smarter choice?
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Originally posted by nomadman View PostHere's how I think it boils down over the ages.
1930s: Look ma, I'm athletically gifted and a whiz on the football field. I think I'll go into boxing and make my fortune.
1950s: Well what do you know, I can run real fast, dunk a basketball and benchpress a fridge. Looks like boxing is the only logical choice for me.
1970s: I'm seven feet tall, I'm quicker than a speeding bullet and my fast-twitch muscle fibres are off the chart! Look out boxing, here I come!
2000s: Yeah, getting hit in the head for a living doesn't sound so appealing. And what exactly are the promotion opportunities? Any pension plans?
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Originally posted by nomadman View PostHere's how I think it boils down over the ages.
1930s: Look ma, I'm athletically gifted and a whiz on the football field. I think I'll go into boxing and make my fortune.
1950s: Well what do you know, I can run real fast, dunk a basketball and benchpress a fridge. Looks like boxing is the only logical choice for me.
1970s: I'm seven feet tall, I'm quicker than a speeding bullet and my fast-twitch muscle fibres are off the chart! Look out boxing, here I come!
2000s: Yeah, getting hit in the head for a living doesn't sound so appealing. And what exactly are the promotion opportunities? Any pension plans?
1972: Best NFL running back makes $60,000.....Muhammed Ali rakes in millions.....And other big name fighters make a king's ransom in comparison as well.
2012: Best NFL running back makes millions.....Any fighter not named Mayweather makes chump-change in comparison.
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Originally posted by ИATAS206 View PostSee, these guys are all ex-ball players too besides Malik Scott.
Mitchell - football till he was injured.
Bryant Jennings - played football & basketball from a little kid all through highschool.
Deontay Wilder - dreamed of playing in the NBA or the NFL his whole life, but gave up college football and basketball to care for his sick daughter (spina bifida).
None of these american's planned on being boxers, it just happened by pure chance.
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Originally posted by poet682006 View PostTry this.....
1972: Best NFL running back makes $60,000.....Muhammed Ali rakes in millions.....And other big name fighters make a king's ransom in comparison as well.
2012: Best NFL running back makes millions.....Any fighter not named Mayweather makes chump-change in comparison.
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