What if guys like Lebron James, Dwight Howard, and Kevin Garnett hit the boxing gym..

[DrewWoodside]

Just because they are great athletes doesnt mean they wouldve been great boxers.. It takes much more than being a great athlete to be a great boxer

By the same token, perhaps Paul Williams wouldn't even have made a D1 college basketball team. It's really quite impossible to say. I would however say that Lebron James has the sort of insane hand eye coordination, athleticism, speed, dexterity etc to likely have been a factor in boxing had he dedicated to it instead of basketball. 6'8 at 250 lbs.. and he's not carrying around much excess weight.

[K-Nan]

Kevin Garnett would turn the lights out. DAMN, I could see him being a big, big puncher.

[Earl-Hickey]

Never heard of him.

To be fair, i havent heard of a single one of these football players.

I only know of that Vick fella, for obvious reasons

[JoHnNyBoXeR]

By the same token, perhaps Paul Williams wouldn't even have made a D1 college basketball team. It's really quite impossible to say. I would however say that Lebron James has the sort of insane hand eye coordination, athleticism, speed, dexterity etc to likely have been a factor in boxing had he dedicated to it instead of basketball. 6'8 at 250 lbs.. and he's not carrying around much excess weight.

Theres alot of factors that go into being a great boxer though.. Like the ability to take a punch and you have to be a tough SOB to make it.. He can drive the paint but can he get rocked and come back?

[K-Nan]

This depends, boxing is not so much about athletism but psychological make up of a person. Boxing as it is does not depend on one aspect of athletism at a superhigh level, but a combination of athletic aspects(like speed of reaction, coordination, flexibility, strength, etc..) on a high but reasonable level. However the psychological(readiness to punish and take punishment is an example) and intellectual(experience, ability to analyze and adopt, even punching as it is is more dependant on the mental ability as a whole) are requiered on a superhigh level. So, if the athletes in question do have these qualities, than they have the potential to be great fighters. If dont, they will likely be ****ed on lower to mid am. level.


PS. I did not actually mean that fighters are smart "academically".

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[Carpe Diem]

LeBron James is a freak of nature. He is just as hype up as Manny Pacquiao.

[Mikhnienko]

That's amazing the guy achieved all that in an era before headgear was standard and does not have cauliflower ear.

lol not to mention the sheer size of those things

Mario Williams, 6-7, 290lbs

Ukrainian NFL player Igor Olshansky 6'6 315 lbs




Vasyl Virastyuk 2004 World's Strongest Man Winner

Rugby players are not well known, and really do not have much of an image.

Doesn't change the fact that they play an equally tough sport with no equipment, are as big, more agile, better conditioned,their game is rougher, they take shots to the head = more applicable to boxing.

Alot of the imaginary NFL stuff could be said for most Euro countries who play Rugby rather than American football or Australia & NZ

[Mikhnienko]

Kevin Garnett would turn the lights out. DAMN, I could see him being a big, big puncher.

Vitali and Odom

Notice how Vitali's neck is twice as thick, along with his calves and forearms

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No jokes, Vitali's neck it literally twice as thick, that's crazy.





Garnett has a similar build, those necks = ktfo if the wind blows too hard. They're too slender to be boxers imo

[BrooklynBomber]

I would almost always pick a more agile guy to be a better fighter pound for pound then more massive guy. But size does matter. Another thing about boxing is that it is probably the fastest paced sport, when taking into account the length of the championship fight and it is also a "single person", it is very hard to compare a great basketball player to a great fighter, because much more factors are involved then would meet to an eye of a regular sports fan. As someone said once, boxing is a lonely sport. It would be easier for me to take someone from tennis and put them in boxing settings. Again, the main factor is the readiness to take punishment of any sort.

[monaroCountry]

Rugby League is well suited to combat competitions like boxing and MMA, more so than NFL. I watched two ex rugby league players box two nights ago, Anthony "The Man" Mundine (ex Dragons rugby player) defended his WBA Internetional Middleweight belt and Garth "The Hood" Woods (ex Rabbitohs rugby player) who won the Australian Contender series against former Kenyan Olympian boxer Kariz Kariuki.

Woods would be good in boxing and perfect for MMA. A though competitor, a great chin, great punch, great at dirty boxing and can wrestle. At the moment he is unpolished and a straight up brawler, having just taken up boxing less than a year ago. Give this guy time, more opponent and he might challenge for a wold title.