Comments Thread For: Daily Bread Mailbag: Terence Crawford, Tim Bradley, Spence-Thurman, More

[Oregonian]

It's amazing how dude can get from Bud Crawford deserves more respect to Al Haymon is a worse person than literal slave traders in a couple paragraphs. You can literally see him whipping himself into a froth with each sentence he writes, wild.

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Yep. The guy is a bonafide loony with his crazy rants

[SteveM]

You make good points, SteveM. And I think median is the way to go. But regarding your point about traveling outside of the U.S., the obesity epidemic is a U.S. problem in my experience. Any time I leave the country and come back I see more morbidly obese people in the first hour of returning than during my whole trip abroad.

First, many cong**** for getting overseas and experiencing the world - it really broadens the mind just like wise people said. I spent 15 years in South America - I definitely saw obesity increasing there and over here in the UK it is out of control but still less than the U.S.

[The D3vil]

Think about what that statistic includes. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to the obesity epidemic. How much of that 171lbs is attributable to older men, men over the age of most active boxers? That figure includes all the obese men in the world - and as we know there's an obesity epidemic.

I'm talking about active male boxers - men who are aged between say 18 and 35 who are top athletes (although there are a few notable fatties as well) . And again, there is a reason I used the word median and not average - do you know the difference?

I hope Bread is not drawing on that same statistic, otherwise he'd go down in my estimation. I think he probably just has an Americentric viewpoint - as many US citizens do and as evidenced by he fact that less that 3 in 5 USA citizens don't have a passport. If you never travel outside of your own country how can you get an accurate view ff what other people and countries are like?

This article says that 95% of the world's male population is between 5'6" & 6'2"

https://www.sportsrec.com/7108523/the-body-types-of-soccer-players

There's no way that men between 5'6 - 6'2" are going to produce athletes where the median is under 130lbs.

Elite athletes in general are going to be bigger than the average person, not smaller.