Does the US really have the best boxers or is it just due to money?

[Guest]

Me? Stirring it? Why, the very thought!

But it seems that - if you remove the lighter weights that seem to be the province of Mexico - that boxing is something like 80-90% an American realm. I'm talking at an elite level, obviously.

Now is this because Americans are just naturally better boxers or just because the US is where the money is? I don't even necessarily mean that the money is used for better training... for all we know there could be the two best heavyweights sitting in a log cabin in Switzerland, eating white chocolate and listening to ABBA. Don King and the WBC aren't going to spend 30 million dollars going over there to film them, are they?

Don't forget - Limeyland is a lot smaller than the US. So proportionately there's more talent here.

[Run]

People are extremely street savvy here in the states. We have the worst crime rate of any country on earth, and we kill eachother more than anywhere else. Everyone is tough, just like the Russian Propaganda says. All of us run the streets with knives, while the city is burning, people are looting, and cops are shooting at us.

That ties directly into the boxing gym.

I was in 5th ward day before yesterday. Oh my is it rough.Visit Houston Texas Anorak. You will see exactly what I am talking about.



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[Guest]

I was there only last week - I went along the street knocking people out for kicks.

[mic573]

I was in 5th ward day before yesterday. Oh my is it rough.Visit Houston Texas Anorak. You will see exactly what I am talking about.

What you doing in 5th ward man? I don't even go there anymore because I no longer have any business being there.

[BrooklynBomber]

People are extremely street savvy here in the states. We have the worst crime rate of any country on earth, and we kill eachother more than anywhere else. Everyone is tough, just like the Russian Propaganda says. All of us run the streets with knives, while the city is burning, people are looting, and cops are shooting at us.

That ties directly into the boxing gym.

I was in 5th ward day before yesterday. Oh my is it rough.Visit Houston Texas Anorak. You will see exactly what I am talking about.

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Thats some funny **** you posted. Have some karma.

[Run]

What you doing in 5th ward man? I don't even go there anymore because I no longer have any business being there.

I have a buddy who lives off Lockwood Drive. Rough as hell there.



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[Kid Achilles]

There are some tough parts of the US but overall we are softer and weaker than people in the countries that were the Soviet Union, as well as China, Africa, parts of South and Central American, and Korea. Don't get me wrong, there are some tough Americans out there, but the vast majority of us are NOT hard. In these other countries I have listed there are higher ratios of tough/hungry/desperate people.

It's the money.

[joeboxer]

The reason that the U.S. is better at boxing is because until very recently it was our only popular fighting sport. Think about it. Even Vitali Klitcho started out as a kickboxer. I live in a boxing gym and I don't know one guy who does kickboxing. Plus over in Sweden and stuff you have all these K1 schools, until recently we didn't have nothing like that.

[joeboxer]

Also alot of our good boxers like Bernard Hopkins or Jamille McCline learned to box in prison. I don't know this but I don't think Europe encourages fighting in Prison.

[snap the jab]

I don't see how Americans could naturally be better boxers...

I think the main reason that the u.s. dominates (although not for much longer, but more on that in a sec) is that the U.S. has three things, all in one country: tons of money, tons of poverty, and a high level of violence for a first-world country. So you get poor males looking for a way up who aren't intimidated by violence, since they've grown up with it all around them, and then rich people who buy tickets and PPV shows to see them and who run TV networks and pay out big purses etc. etc... and since things have been this way in this country for a long time we also benefit from alot of built-up training talent and gym infrastructure, as well as a solid base of fans.

The pool of competitors is widening, however, as more and more fighters from Africa, Eastern Europe, South America, and Asia get into the mix. Countries in these regions will develop boxing traditions of their own, and will start producing more and more world-class fighters. Eventually boxing will become a truly international sport, no longer dominated by the United States. Bad news for American fighters, since the wider the pool of competition the harder it will be for them to get to the top - but really good news for boxing fans, since the guys who make it to the top of such a big, diverse pool of talent should be some freakishly good fighters.