What's happening to American fighters?!

[Bad_Barracuda]

you like bananas..

the decline of United States Amateur programs could be another reason..if they paid less attention to bananas (see above) and more on breeding new talent...

floyd and hopkins are on the verge of retirement,pavlik is globalisation in the flesh..

and you mention johnson(whos actually jamaican anyway you fool)who was beaten by clinton woods a brit,yet calzaghe is in a different league to clinton so why would he be interested in old glengoffe!!

now i could put a smilie or an "owned" face here,but i dont talk with pictures nor write with crayons

I see a lot of young Americans on the rise..a lot more than from Europe..

Joe Greene
Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillan
The Direll Brothers
The Peterson Brothers
James Strickland
Andre Berto
Mickey Bey
and plenty more


Joe ducked old man Johnson for a reason..HE CAN'T KEEP HIM OFF HIM WITH THOSE SISSY SLAPS..

Pavlik is not *********..and the way he fights..won't be around very long anyway.

[~Lucky13~]

I see a lot of young Americans on the rise..a lot more than from Europe..

Joe Greene
Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillan
The Direll Brothers
The Peterson Brothers
James Strickland
Andre Berto
Mickey Bey
and plenty more


Joe ducked old man Johnson for a reason..HE CAN'T KEEP HIM OFF HIM WITH THOSE SISSY SLAPS..

Pavlik is not *********..and the way he fights..won't be around very long anyway.

predicting the future is quite TOUGH but recognizing the current state of American boxing is quite easy, you apparently are UNABLE to do that but I'll let you in a little secret;

American fighters do NOTHING but piss in the wind!!!

[1g5a22]

I see a lot of young Americans on the rise..a lot more than from Europe..

Joe Greene
Peter "Kid Chocolate" Quillan
The Direll Brothers
The Peterson Brothers
James Strickland
Andre Berto
Mickey Bey
and plenty more


Joe ducked old man Johnson for a reason..HE CAN'T KEEP HIM OFF HIM WITH THOSE SISSY SLAPS..

Pavlik is not *********..and the way he fights..won't be around very long anyway.

Jesus loves you! It's everybody else that thinks you're an ass.

[Bad_Barracuda]

predicting the future is quite TOUGH but recognizing the current state of American boxing is quite easy, you apparently are UNABLE to do that but I'll let you in a little secret;

American fighters do NOTHING but piss in the wind!!!

Americans are currently ruling you Eurobums..

And there is a huge crop to replace the current supply..unlike you dying Euro-trashers.

You're best fighter is OLD and punches like Dame Edna..lol

[Steel Town USA]

I am also surprised why Americans don't run the HW division since 95% of them are over 250 pounds, that's like 280 million heavyweights and NOT 1 champion, a disgrace if you ask me...

You can try to discredit the "other sports" argument all you want, but the truth is it's "spot on" (isn't that what you guys say on the other side of the pond?). It's a sad fact that boxing in the U.S. is taking on a niche roll, with football and basketball attracting our biggest and best athletes. I'm certainly not happy about it, but it's the truth.

I am confident that a number of NFL players could have been world-class fighters if they'd gone down that path. But whereas the world heavyweight champion during the Louis, Ali, etc. eras was revered as an icon here in America, it's simply not the case anymore. They can find much more glory and money in other sports (without risking long-term health), and so they do....

[VERSION1 (V1)]

why box for 2 million to 4 million for maybe 2 fights when they can play baseball football basketball and hockey and make 5 to 25+ million dollars in a year

[FUC_U_PAYME]

yea we only got about 15 world champs man do we suck

[The Texican]

Our best heavyweights got scholarships to USC, LSU, OSU, and Texas.

[Thread Stealer]

It's really only heavyweights where fighters from the states have significantly decreased.

For instance, in the 1970s, a lot of the best fighters were Latin anyway.

Let's look back 35 years to 1973:

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph..._Ratings:_1973

Let's go back 40 years to 1968:

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.ph..._Ratings:_1968

There's been champs and top fighters coming from all over the world, for a long time.

[death666]

Jealous little illegal immigrant..

Black fighters are a lot better than mexicans..They have a thing called DEFENSE..

Little watermellon ..you must forget mexicans ko black fighters 90% of the time...their defense is not making past the 1st round....