Why isn't boxing bigger in Jamaica?

Bolt would make Floyd fight like an amateur! Bolt so fast floyd will fight like clottey! This is amazing, 8 posts into it and someone brings Floyd into it

I am foom jamaica man, we smoke ganja all day, every day, no box no amfetamin, we love woodoo magic dole burned with gasoline . Be happy man:439:

They love smokin cess. **** puts me in a coma, can't imagine what a whole upbringing of it would do

Dancehall.

som great answers in this thread...but it all boils down to govt support.

The same reason basketball, American football, and many other sports aren't big in Jamaica... The just don't follow boxing as much. I'm sure if they concentrated on the sport of boxing like some of the other 3rd world countries Jamaicans would be just as successful.

jamaicans are recruited to be either sprinters or bobsled members

david haye is also jamaican

a couple of these comments are downright ignorant....

Too many Drug dealers they don't train so boxing and dealing don't mix

The national sport is WWE humping/simulated rape.

Maybe with the success of Walters that will change that and inspire more Jamaicans to get into boxing

a lot of jamaicans are into this. they know who walters is atleast.

Wasn't Livingston Bramble Jamaican?

Maybe I'm wrong but boxing doesn't seem that big in Jamaica compared to the other Caribbean giants, Cuba and Puerto Rico... Just wondering why... because Jamaica clearly has a TON of athletic talent for such a small country... What about Jamaican culture doesn't lend itself to fostering a strong boxing culture compared to Cuba and Puerto Rico? I was there on vacation in March and watched the Jamaican version of the Contender TV Show, I asked people there who the "Axe Man" was and almost everyone knew Walters. My tv at the resort had a sports station in Spanish that showed tons of boxing. There were some boxing gyms on the way to Negril as well.

Because everybody is too high all the time to box effectively? Tell that to Kirkland Laing.

With my limited knowledge of Jamaican sports, I'd say track and field is by far the biggest thing over there, young men have the likes of Bolt and Powell to look up to and follow in their foot steps. Then there is the great cricketing heritage of the Caribbean, again so many heroes to look up to....who is there for the youth in terms of boxing? Just about no one. Edit: I've heard that a lot of young athletic talent from Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean are being mined by the US for the NBA. So the resources are being squeezed. How many talented young athletes who have the options of T&F, Cricket and NBA are then going to turn their attention to boxing? Just not happening.

Because mon, they dont have a bobsled team!

Because everybody is too high all the time to box effectively?

Bolt would make Floyd fight like an amateur! Bolt so fast floyd will fight like clottey!