Comments Thread For: Quadtrine Hill – The Next Great Heavyweight?

[Easy-E]

The NFL/NBA argument is a joke. How many guys in the NBA look like they could be boxers? Bull****. Weak excuse. The Klitschkos hammer black guys like Byrd, Rahman, "Kingpin" Johnson, Tony Thompson, etc., just like they hammer everyone else.

Many fighters look like they could be good boxers in the NBA. There is no way to determine their transferrable skills, chin, power or work ethic, but there are certainly many prototypes of potential great heavyweights.

Just imagine Lamar Odom, he is 6'11" and lefty. Imagine that reach.

[snake]

Don't confuse a dedicated boxer like Hill with other NFL players. Today if an NFL player stubs his toe, he's on the bench for three weeks healing up. In boxing, a guy breaks his hand in round two but goes on to finish the fight ten rounds later. We saw Abraham shatter his jaw against Miranda but he finished out the fight. I highly doubt most NFL or NBA players have the mental toughness to compete in boxing...no way given how they respond to minor injuries in their respective sports.

Hill is taking boxing seriously and from the interview has that mental toughness needed to succeed.

[BritishBoxing92]

By Thomas Gerbasi - One look at the cover of the December 28, 2009 issue of ESPN The Magazine, and you can tell that Quadtrine Hill has the look to be a heavyweight boxing star.

Talk to the affable former University of Miami fullback for any length of time, and it’s clear that he also has the personality to be a breath of fresh air in a stale division.

But the first two elements won’t get you anywhere in this game without the third member of the triumvirate. That number three is being able to fight, and if the 2009 Florida Golden Gloves were any indication, the 27-year old Hill could turn out to be the real deal, as he defeated Carl Frederich, Christopher Roberson, and Jarrett Brock in successive bouts, with the knockout of Frederich in less than a minute…

“Six seconds,” Hill clarifies with a smile.

Yes, six seconds. Just enough time for Hill to walk to the center of the ring and drill his opponent with a right hook that sent him sprawling to the mat and almost out of the ring, even surprising Hill.

“I didn’t even think I hit him that hard,” he said. “Then I watched the replay, and his head snapped back in slo-mo, and he almost flies out of the ring and the scorekeepers are ready to catch him from going through the ropes. And it isn’t like I laid into it, I was backing up when I hit him. It was a right hook and I was backing up when I threw it.”

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has this dude even had a Pro Debut Fight Yet????

[ChopperRead]

Many fighters look like they could be good boxers in the NBA. There is no way to determine their transferrable skills, chin, power or work ethic, but there are certainly many prototypes of potential great heavyweights.

Just imagine Lamar Odom, he is 6'11" and lefty. Imagine that reach.

The oft-repeated claim that the heavyweight division is not doing well in America because (African) American athletes all go into the NBA or NFL doesn't hold up to scrutiny. A relatively small number of athletes play in those leagues, and most of them probably aren't boxing material anyway. The real problem is that the Eastern Europeans, bigger, stronger, hungry and more disciplined than tubby American heavies like Cris Arreola, have taken over, and Americans don't like it when they don't rule the roost. The same phenomenon has taken place in men's tennis: where John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi used to rule, for the last decade it has been Europeans Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Can this be blamed on the NFL/NBA as well? Of course not. Tellingly, both tennis and boxing used to be "mainstream" sports in the US, and now they are "niche" sports, because Americans in general are xenophobic. They don't really like names like "Federer" and "Klitschko," they don't like the Euros having what used to be theirs.

The Klitschko brothers, both holders of heavyweight title belts, are great athletes, intelligent men with PhDs, philanthropic, and sport record-high KO percentages. They are everything America says it values: except they are not (African) American. However, on the bright side, heavyweight boxing has never been bigger in Germany and Eastern Europe. Wladimir Klitschko will be fighting in a 55,000 seat soccer arena, defending his titles against African-American challenger Eddie Chambers, on March 20 in Germany. The UK is also excited about the heavyweight division, as they have a top heavyweight fighter in David Haye, who says he is gunning for the Klitschkos. So really, it is only in the USA where the heavyweight division is said to be dead. And all it would take is one American fighter like Chambers to defeat Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko for Americans to suddenly revise their negative opinions of the heavyweight division.

[silkyjohnson]

yeah it's sad when African-American athletes choose to make hundreds of millions dollars scoring touchdowns and dunking. Take the NFL and NBA away and blacks would dominate boxing once again. Can you imagine Dwight Howard, Ron Artest, Shaq, hell even Kobe Bryant if they were boxers and not Basketball stars. We wouldn't even know the steriod Russian freaks.

I dunno about Kobe... maybe with his work ethic he could come around

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[Junito-Rulez]

Another American HW hypejob who will never amount to anything.

co-sign, once they find an american who's 220 pounds, black if possible and athletic, they make him to be the future HW king . Then he gets pathetically stopped by a KLITS.

[BrooklynBomber]

The whole NBA/NFL argument is crap and here is why -- the general level of american heavyweights did not change, outside of the few stars that american heavyweight scene had. How many great american heavies were there in the 90s outside of holyfield? Or how about 80s outside of Tyson? or 70s and Ali/Frazier/Foreman, which was an exception to a general trend. All these american guys that the aforementioned stars were beating up would be just where they were then today. It's all in perception.

[tru2boxingfan]

Wow some flunkie NLF player wins the novice gloves and it's a big story in boxing. Damn right the heavyweight division is in the toilet.

Lmao @ that video of Cal. He takes on B-hop and Jones, but not Dawson

[Pirao]

The NBA, NFL argument is a joke. I don't hear Europeans crying that they would dominate the WW-MW and other "normal size" divisions if their athletes weren't playing soccer

[tru2boxingfan]

I dunno about Kobe... maybe with his work ethic he could come around

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Lmfao that ****ing vid is hilarious.