Boxing requires very little sporting talent

[satiev1]

im not just referring to this fight. Tell me another sport where you can literally never play it until you're an adult and get to the very top like some world champions.

he's not fighting ranked top opponents. He is fighting guys 20-30 years their prime and mma fighters you ****ing re-tard. And he's not at the top not even ranked LMAO.

And in the ufc you have many fighters in their 20's and 30's become champs without every doing mma.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

You've got to be ****ing kidding or a full ******.

[satiev1]

Yeah I’m starting to think this was a troll post but still fun in the comments lol

looks like it or a drunken irish bum.

[BKM-]

Don't compare this to some ball sport. Boxing like other combat sports is an extremely physical and genetic-dependant sport. You can say that about most sports yes, but ball sports require decades of built-in hand-eye coordination with the ball. That is the main difference. Whereas boxing is a natural thing for **** sapiens, it's a fist fight. And if you have the genetics for it it can compensate a lot of things like never having done is in your teen years.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Look at the likes of Wilder or AJ. Never laced up a pair of gloves until they were adults and become world champions. You just can't do that in other sports, no chance.

Christian Okoye in the NFL, Dennis Rodman in the NBA both beg to differ

[LA_2_Vegas]

Well, yeah. That's one of the best aspects of it all.

You just need to be able to fight.

And fighters come from all walks of life.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

Jake is good for boxing.

I was laughing my *ss off seeing Vergil rant on twitter about Jake.

Vergil frustrated that Jake will become a world champion before him.

Vergil realized he's been the eternal interim champion. It's not anyone's fault. It's him.

Let's get this momentum going
Enough of that diva $h1t
No more hyping or rewarding runners
No more fights for duckers

The only reason Jake is relevant because the current crop of boxers are IRRELEVANT

[Toffee]

Vergil frustrated that Jake will become a world champion before him.

What weight will he become World Champion in?

If he was just fighting towards a title in a specific weight (Cruiser?) then he'd have been knocked out by now.

[Willow The Wisp]

Jake Paul proves boxing is one of the least talented sports
I don't care where Chavez is right now, there's no other sport where a youtuber could start in their 20s and beat former champions in that sport.

Look at the likes of Wilder or AJ. Never laced up a pair of gloves until they were adults and become world champions. You just can't do that in other sports, no chance.

It's simply down to needing less talent to succeed in boxing.

I don't wanna hear boxers are great sportsmen again. Brave? Absolutely. But it's a sport that people can start very late and still beat champions because the standard of sporting ability is so low.

Put it into perspective...do you think you could never dribble a basketball until the age of 21 and then within a few years be able to compete in a game with even the most mediocre retired NBA player? there's no way.

Paul, a guy who never boxed until his 20s just did as well against Chavez as prime Canelo did against a badly weight drained stoner Chavez lollll. Boxing is a joke.

Very interesting perspective. Boxing is a joke.

I imagine you were rooti g for Julio, and Mike Tyson before that.

But before we "wrap up" any conclusions here, Let's not forget that those team sports you are comparing boxing to are, in fact, children's games. Nothing more and nothing less.

That's it.
They are no more than that, played at any level.

Marketing people and a cooperating press have lionized those field and court games and their players artificially; and sold the product for entertainment purposes.
As though they were doing something heroic or couragious out there, which they're not.

Just a game, and we love em'.


Practically speaking, Each of those sports utilizes a conduit of talent drawn from pee-wee leagues, from early childhood, high school, on up.
Those extra Years put in perfecting one's talents is purely the result of this.

In Boxing, attempts to treat children this way have frequently raised eyebrows in civilized nations over the years.

Boxing, conversely, is an adult sport for adult entertainment.

If it's something that you can rise in quickly; don't let the MMA roster find out or you'll have seen your last rear naked choke, or "nuts in they face".

And I'll tell you this. If, back in the 1960s or 70s, they were to lock me in a room with Pele to unravel the mystery of who the "better athlete" was; he aint gonna walk out under his own power. Not a chance in hell.

I promise that.

Yet I concede the better athlete is he.

Lastly; what difference does it make what Jake Paul used to do for a living? He's an excellent natural athlete who has worked extremely hard for a number of years at perfecting his new craft, making use of the best trainers and facilities that money can buy.


Edwin Hubble was an astronomer, and rather famous for it.
But he also had a passion for Boxing, smart enough to dare to pursue both interests.


I want to declare that your post it silly; but that would make me an *******, wouldn't it?

[Willow The Wisp]

Heavyweight boxing, yes.

How far will somebody go in lower division with Wilder level talent?

The point of Boxing is NOT to run, jump, dance and move or otherwise be a sissy.

The point of Boxing is to scramble the opponent's senses.

Can't resist a jab at blacks or Trump or the country that absolutely rules the world; whatever's eating at you; but you can count the number of recent fighters who have perfected the fine art of scrambling the opponent's senses better than Wilder on your fingers.