SRR would eat Pacman alive (even tho love pacman)

[Smokin'J]

what happened Tua tell me please, what happened to the heavyweights?

[Left Hook Tua]

Ring Magazine's Heavyweight Rankings in 1964 after Muhammad Ali won the title:

Muhammad Ali, Champion

1.Sonny Liston
2.Floyd Patterson
3.Ernie Terrell
4.Cleveland Williams
5.George Chuvalo
6.Zora Folley
7.Karl Mildenberger
8.Roger Rischer
9.Eddie Machen
10.Doug Jones

Ring Magazine's Heavyweight Rankings in 1978 , Muhammad Ali's last year as champion:

Muhammad Ali, Champion

1.Larry Holmes
2.Ken Norton
3.Leon Spinks
4.Ron Lyle
5.Jimmy Young
6.Kallie Knoetze
7.Alfredo Evangelista
8.Gerrie Coetzee
9.Ossie Ocasio
10.Domingo D'Elia

The names in bold are guys that Ali fought.

[Left Hook Tua]

what happened Tua tell me please, what happened to the heavyweights?

no one wants to be a boxer anymore.

if you're an athletic 220 lb. or higher american you're probably training your ass off for the nfl or nba.

it seems like the typical american heavyweight are guys like jameel mccline.

one day they run into someone who says , "hey , you're big. you should try boxing."



emmanuel steward helped ruin this eras heavyweight division too.

take a look at lennox lewis , vitali klitschko and wladimir klitschko fights PRE-steward and POST-steward.

[Smokin'J]

what happened with all those heavyweights with pride, training to the limit doing everything to win, breaking mentally and physically

[Smokin'J]

no one wants to be a boxer anymore.

if you're an athletic 220 lb. or higher american you're probably training your ass off for the nfl or nba.

it seems like the typical american heavyweight are guys like jameel mccline.

one day they run into someone who says , "hey , you're big. you should try boxing."



emmanuel steward helped ruin this eras heavyweight division too.

take a look at lennox lewis , vitali klitschko and wladimir klitschko fights PRE-steward and POST-steward.

maaan

[Left Hook Tua]

maaan

well us americans will always have guys at 135-175.

those guys are too small for the nba and nfl.

[Smokin'J]

well us americans will always have guys at 135-175.

those guys are too small for the nba and nfl.

hahahaha, i guess so lol.
Boxing ain't too populair here, we all know Ali and Tyson ofcourse but talk about Klitschko or something and they don't got much to talk about.

[paulsinghnl]

maaan

thats why i was comparing david tua vs. james toney, those are the old school style fighters. ok, not training hard as ****, but they always make it a great fight. Tua is coming back if he fights better each time out from now on. Tua vs. Haye, Arreola, i'd like to see that.

the HW's dont wanna fight no more, it's a brutal sport, and fighting at HW u need to have a mixture of awesome toughness and ******ity/arrogance. it's incredibly hard work, and nowadays it's easier doing other stuff.

[Left Hook Tua]

hahahaha, i guess so lol.
Boxing ain't too populair here, we all know Ali and Tyson ofcourse but talk about Klitschko or something and they don't got much to talk about.

if you notice...... most of the top american boxers of late come from boxing families where their parents or uncles got them into the sport.

gone are the days when there's boxing gyms and pal gyms all over the place where a kid can just learn the sport.