MMA wont kill American boxing

[boxasmash]

Eastern Europeans will, once Americans realise they can no longer compete they will throw in the towel and move to a new sport. Lets be honest, that's the only reason they pretend they don't like football because they are not very good at it.

The mentality of Americans is to quit when they are defeated and to wave the white flag.

[omarinbox]

I dunno. Give em another ten years to wake up.

Still that burger munching country needs to shape up.

The World Health Organization has recently released the results of health surveys taken between 2000 and 2008 on world obesity, and the news isn’t pretty.

Since obesity rates can be an indicator of a nation’s nutritional trends, health and culture, we thought it might be useful information for the expat to know. Here are the 10 fattest countries of the last decade:

(1) American Samoa, 93.5% (of the population that is overweight)
It’s a staggering number. Many Pacific Island nations have had trouble with weight in modern times mostly because they have abandoned their traditional foods for cheap, easily attained processed foods from the West. Perhaps no other Pacific Island has had such access to these habits as American Samoa.

(2) Kiribati, 81.5%
Like American Samoa, Kiribati has been flooded with processed foods like Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep scraps), often sold at lower prices than native food.

(3) U.S.A., 66.7%
Well, the U.S.A. doesn’t top the list, but it’s close, and it falls behind only a small islands nation and one of its own unincorporated territories. The United States of Processed food, high fructose corn syrup and fast food has been high on this list over the last half century.

(4) Germany, 66.5%
The fattest country in Europe no doubt owes their portly woes to lots of beer, fatty foods and inactivity.

(5) Egypt, 66%
Obesity among Egyptian women is particularly high, often attributed to cultural taboos on women exercising or playing sports.

(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9%
Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, where smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods ****ed during the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995.

(7) New Zealand, 62.7%
Obesity is a growing concern for New Zealand. While its native Maori have struggled with weight due to loss of traditional culture like other Pacific Islanders– they are mostly just a scapegoat. New Zealand’s entire population is getting fatter at a rapidly increased rate.

(8) Israel, 61.9%
In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has tripled, evidence the country is truly part of the Western world.

(9) Croatia, 61.4%
Croatia, where cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, is also a victim of the globalization of the food market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store shelves.

(10) United Kingdom, 61%
A recent survey ranked Brits among the bottom third of European nations in physical exercise, leading Health Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, “We’re really in danger of being known as the best in the world for watching sport, but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for ourselves.”

http://www.expatify.com/news/the-worlds-top-10-fattest-countries.html

[gratz_the_king]

you make a good point ...but its not just americans who move on to new things when they cant compete, its humans in general...thats just human nature

look at the way mmgay has died out in japan, a country where the sport once thrived. they have NO fighters that can compete nowadays, so they moved on and look for new sports. mmgay is dead in japan...its the same with kickboxing in holland and thailand. the sports are HUGE over there, because theyre good at it. theyre not so huge elsewhere, because the people are not so good at it. people just want to root for their countrymen i guess.

look at the way nobody cares about american football in other countries (our version of football)...its because they cant compete with us in that sport, so they dont even bother. same with baksetball and baseball for the most part

alot of countries also dont care about hockey because they cant compete with some others.

you are dead on about soccer too. as for europeans in boxing, i can see it killing american boxing some day (only for the casuals though, never someone like me). its actually sad because i imagine a future where euro's dominate boxing, and we americans have moved on to mmgay *shivers*


not to turn this into a race issue, but i also feel you can even narrow this down further. what i mean is, if _______ people begin losing in a sport, that race of people will move on to another sport