I wish more african/americans came into HW boxing!!!!

[nomadman]

118 comments smh wow. When it come to race threads, the true *****es come out

Have you bothered to read more than a fraction of those comments?

[nomadman]

but that is the argument in which guys who are NOT from the US may get a little confuse when people say that other sports are taking away great athletes from Boxing IN THE US, because yeah they have other options, a lot of guys in the US who could potential be Heavyweight Boxers are playing other sports

people say many NBA Power Forward could be Heavyweight Boxers because most Power Forwards in the NBA are VERY PHYSICAL and they to have excellent footwork especially for their size...that is the connection between boxing and basketball

I'm not saying that soccer is taking away the best potential American HW because it clearly isn't. I'm saying Americans can't simply use the NFL and NBA to conveniently excuse their dearth of decent HWs given that every other country is in the same position regarding boxing being a second tier sport. The problems with boxing in America go far deeper than that.

[Russian Crushin]

lol the NBA has between 400-450 players total. The NFL about 1600. There are far more athletes combined from Eastern Europe played the sports i listed.

This honestly isn't **** talk, i'm sincerely asking because it's a stereotype/generalization but there does seem to be truth to it and i'm genuinly not sure why it is the case. How come alot of ***ish people like yourself seemingly worship and genuinly think that Black Americans are the best at anything pertaining to athletics?

For the USA for example, only 1 black american has ever won a Gold medal in Olympic Weightlifting for the USA while at least 3 ***ish Americans, maybe 4 or 5, have won Golds.

Prior to me sharing that with you i suspect that you would not have thought ***s were stronger than Blacks although the evidence would seemingly indicate that. Also keep in mind Black Americans are about 15% of the USA's total population while ***s make up under 2%

Yes but what about the millions that play college sports?

For most, boxing has to start at an early age, but at thier peak, black athletes in america are put into basketball or football. Then when they realize they didnt make the NFL or NBA, they are 18-23 years old and now its usually too late to box

[Pirao]

Lol, another one of this threads after a Klitschko fight, how original.

[SonnyboyReturns]

Not to sounds racist but the HW division needs some athletic fighters to rival the klits. Its a shame all the best athletes are in the NFL/NBA Imagine an athlete such as ray lewis starting boxing at aged 10 or so? He would be a beast! Or a lebron james type of athlete at like 250+ and like 6,7!! Its a shame they all go to the other sports as teh rewards are easier.

Antonio Tarver?

[Eric Smalls]

Not saying these african americans would be better than the Klits.

But it would be fun if not all the top heavyweights were as boring as these eastern european robots. Haye has a pretty entertaining style, too bad he's a fraud and a duck. Im not hating on the Klits either, they are great, its just that i find their fights boring.

[King Ju-Ju]

it would def be nice 2 see but its not happening.

[nomadman]

Yes but what about the millions that play college sports?

For most, boxing has to start at an early age, but at thier peak, black athletes in america are put into basketball or football. Then when they realize they didnt make the NFL or NBA, they are 18-23 years old and now its usually too late to box

Plenty of good boxers started their careers late in life, and if these NFL rejects are such great athletes as you claim then they should have no problems learning the ropes. Are you telling me that out of the millions of kids that don't make the draft not one of them has the ability or desire to learn a new sport, especially a new sport in which the division they're fighting in is widely hailed as amongst the weakest in history? Come on. Matt "The Indestructible Zombie" Skelton made a decent career for himself in his late thirties; prior to that he was a K-1 fighter and before that a Rubgy player. He's about as athletic as my overweight aunt. Why haven't we seen any of these super-athletic African-American ubermenschen making a stab at boxing and having the same success? It beggars belief.

[Mr. Philadel]

I wish more African Americans would enter the workforce!

slavery wasn't enough?!?...j/k

as for the thread....it wouldn't matter if the HW's were african, native, white or illegal Americans....the Klits would whoop their asses in the exact same fashion these HW's are gettin' it today