If you were a 7ft athlete would you rather box or play Basketball, football?

If I could make the same money I would play basketball. It's a much safer sport with fewer injuries and no brain damage.Where did you get the ridiculous wrong idea that most heavyweights are just pro basketball rejects???? They are two completely different sports and a man could be great at basketball and terrible at boxing or a great boxer and worthless as a basketball player. No pro basketball player who tried pro boxing ever did well.None of the great heavyweight champions would have been able to play pro basketball. The sports have nothing to do with each other. Marciano was the heavyweight champ for years and he was 5 foot 10 inches tall and 185 pounds with short arms. He would have been terrible at basketball but he would slaughter any pro basketball player in the boxing ring.

I imagine most American parents would push their kids into basketball or gridiron or even wrestling over boxing, purely for the college opportunities.

I’m not much of a team player so I guess I would opt for boxing but I would be one boring MFer. Jab and grab Wlad would have nothing on me.

I played football and basketball when I was in school while also boxing amateur. I liked all three but for me boxing was my main sport. I didn't really care for the team attitude and handful of coaches who played favoritism more so in football than basketball. Basketball I liked that I got playing time on both sides of the court due there being no breaks other than a foul or timeout. It made it more fun to me than football. And boxing I like the one on one nature of it. Because the one thing that always turned me off from team sports was when people would try and insinuate blame on why we lost. I liked that no one could take my victory or loss away from me. So to answer the question I think that it depends on the individual. For me I happen to like boxing a lot more so that would be my choice regardless of size.

do you know youre going to be 7ft as a kid? cause basketball you need to do as a kid for hours. if youre a sporty kid and can make it in all 3 sports, obvious choice would be to play infront of beyonce and jayz in the basketball. The obvious choice is where you can make the most money with less difficulty :smashfrea

do you know youre going to be 7ft as a kid? cause basketball you need to do as a kid for hours. if youre a sporty kid and can make it in all 3 sports, obvious choice would be to play infront of beyonce and jayz in the basketball.

I would do everything besides boxing . In basketball and football you actually get paid too practice you get a training facility and health trainers!! Shoot in boxing you actually have too pay for everything!! Even too practice sometimes

Why would anyone, any size, want to get their face bashed in for a living? I'm guessing if any professional boxers could make the kind of money they do, doing something else, they would 100% of the time.

Like most 7’ plus Work for the mob Easy money

Football you would get your knees crushed, Boxing most 7 footers are to clumsy to box so it would have to be basket ball where on average more money can be made

I'm assuming the TS scenario, a guy is a talented 7'er who can preform at a high level at the sports he mentioned. Not some 7' couch potato. I could be wrong In that case they would probably be better picking basketball, because the financial rewards are good and more predictable than in boxing. But if they were really good at boxing, and liked to fight, then they might go for it and hope to become a Mike Tyson level superstar, which would bring as much, if not more, money and glory than they would get as a top class basketball player. If it was just an athletic 7' kid who didn't know how good he was at either sport, then basketball would be the way to go. Just being that tall and athletic with it would more or less guarantee him a good income as a basketball player, even if he didn't hit the top class. Success at boxing is harder to predict, because there is such a thing as fighting or boxing "talent" which has nothing to do with athleticism and can't be taught. Same thing with punch resistance. No matter how talented a fighter he was, or how much defensive nous he developed, even a 7' tall HW with no chin would be one punch away from disaster every time he stepped in the ring. And it's a lot harder to come back from getting KTFO in the ring than it is to get over a bad game on a basketball court.

boxing is brutal. Expected to continue with broken hands, jaws, eye sockets, dislocated shoulders, busted knees (sergio-cotto). David Haye wouldnt even be allowed to play NFL with that broken toe but in boxing people just made fun of him and it wasnt even considered an injury. People mock Vitali for "quitting" with a torn rotator cuff. People mock Floyd for being defensive and stating he wants to leave boxing without CTE. Could you imagine an NFL quarter back breaks a hand or tears a rotator cuff and they just tell him to get back in the game and use his other hand to throw? Or someone gets elbowed in the eye by Shaq and breaks their orbital bone, oh you got one good eye still, get back in the game. Cut around the eye so big you can stick a finger down in it? Just put some vasoline on it and get back in the game! And nobody is trying to punch them! This is it. Combat sports are all about injuring your opponent, so injuries are considered to be part and parcel of the game. If you don't want to get busted up and injured, don't become a fighter, simple as that.

If you have skill and not just size, you can pretty much get by. Valuev had no skill whatsoever and he's functioning well. Think about it There are or can be other 7' in NBA making you a ''one of'' A skillful 7' WR can get hurt by getting their legs cut out from under them A skillful 7' boxer :boxing: Pure money There's a problem with that ... there is no such thing as a skillful 7' boxer! 7' tall men can't fight for shit and most of them collapse like a deck of cards on stilts if they get their chins touched. Valuev couldn't fight for shit. He got as far as he did in boxing by being smart enough to know how to use his size and reach effectively to score points and impervious to punches because he wasn't just 7' + .... he was 7' + with thick bones and a huge heavy skull. There are no top class basketball players built like Valuev. Guys built like him can't move around quickly enough to play top class basketball.

Boxers are expected to fight with broken arms and punctured lungs and sheit. Basketball players can miss 4 weeks with a turned ankle boxing is brutal. Expected to continue with broken hands, jaws, eye sockets, dislocated shoulders, busted knees (sergio-cotto). David Haye wouldnt even be allowed to play NFL with that broken toe but in boxing people just made fun of him and it wasnt even considered an injury. People mock Vitali for "quitting" with a torn rotator cuff. People mock Floyd for being defensive and stating he wants to leave boxing without CTE. Could you imagine an NFL quarter back breaks a hand or tears a rotator cuff and they just tell him to get back in the game and use his other hand to throw? Or someone gets elbowed in the eye by Shaq and breaks their orbital bone, oh you got one good eye still, get back in the game. Cut around the eye so big you can stick a finger down in it? Just put some vasoline on it and get back in the game! And nobody is trying to punch them!

They don't have to choose neither.be the first 7 foot astronaut or the first 7 ft marine biologist.im almost a 7 footer and was blessed enough to use my brain for a pretty awesome living.So you big men reading this be whatever you want to be. They'd physically disqualify you from being an astronaut. The space stations and capsules are made for average sized people.

if you were 7ft basketball would prob be your best and only option what you fail to realize is how many pro athletes in basketball and football are 6-3 and up the nfl and nba is easier and faster money than being a pro boxer in america these days

:luvbed:Most heavyweights are just Pro basketball rejects Volley ball...... or bad mitten I boxed amatures PAL, my face and hands hurt when it’s cold... My wife, in winter opens jars for me... I need to warm my hands,,, too many hand fractures... Maybe bad mitten , that lil thing they hit will hurt less than a volley ball. Darts seems kool too.

Basketball definitely. I wouldn't want to risk my long term health by taking repeated blows to the head. CTE is no joke.

Both. I'd fight once a year after a season ends.

NBA players made insane amount of salary PLUS endorsements. No brainer decision. Choosing boxing would result in a damaged brainer decision.