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

[Motofan]

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.

(Shakes head and leaves thread...)

[nomadman]

Not like Football or Basketball. If you are an athletic black kid, you will be pretty much forced into one of the two sports, but even more so if your a big kid.

So if you're a big athletic kid from Nigeria, or Argentina, or Ukraine you're going to go into... boxing??? Not likely. Soccer is by far and away the best and easiest way to escape a life of crushing poverty the likes of which would be unheard of in even the worst ******s of the States.

Because that all that we see. Im guessing your from the UK and i doubt that even 1 guy comes close to 200 pounds on Manchester United

Weight is irrelevant. NFL players bulk up because they have to, it's in the interests of the sport to be big. Just like it's in the nature of the sport for a soccer player to be lean and with phenomenal endurance, something which is very important for boxing.

[Forza]

Soccer is filled with small people, hardly any athletes over 200 lbs. Also it's a very easy sport. Those russian sports are filled with unathletic bums too. Combat sambo? Hockey? Power lifting? Get real.

[Mikhnienko]

Take the bolded away, those sports take away .00001% of athletes.
Again like i keep saying, American Boxing was built on large black athletic males, and that 1 group is being taken away by basketball and football.

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%

[Forza]

Because weight lifting is not even a sport and there is no money in it. NBA and NFL pay the best, so they attract the best athletes. Hardly any of you euros can make it in those. It's filled with American blacks and whites.

[Mikhnienko]

Soccer is filled with small people, hardly any athletes over 200 lbs. Also it's a very easy sport. Those russian sports are filled with unathletic bums too. Combat sambo? Hockey? Power lifting? Get real.

ESPN ranking for difficulty of sports

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Their panel of experts

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=degree/bios

1)Boxing
2)Ice Hockey
3)Football
4)Basketball
5)Wrestling
6)MMA

FYI Combat Sambo is basically MMA with headgear and shin guards. Ice Hockey > Football, Basketball.

[fdotorres]

wlad and vitali would beat the dog **** out of lebron..color isnt the issue its skills

not only that. lebron's also a ****** with no heart

maybe kobe would do better. MJ would be p4p #1 though

[Forza]

Who cares what espn thinks? Hockey is lame, it doesn't pay well thus it doesn't attract top athletes.

p4p, America produces the best athletes in the world. And 90% of those are black.

[nomadman]

Soccer is filled with small people, hardly any athletes over 200 lbs. Also it's a very easy sport. Those russian sports are filled with unathletic bums too. Combat sambo? Hockey? Power lifting? Get real.

Yeah it's filled with small people, and big people, and medium-sized people. Yeah, it's a very easy sport to play which is why so many kids play it, doesn't need any specialist equipment or complex marked grounds to play on. And you don't need enormous amounts of steroids to make it as a pro either. Yeah, perhaps I should rethink my initial post and attain some Forza-style epic realness. I would certainly be a saner and more intelligent being...

[Mikhnienko]

Because weight lifting is not even a sport and there is no money in it. NBA and NFL pay the best, so they attract the best athletes. Hardly any of you euros can make it in those. It's filled with American blacks and whites.

Weightlifting, Powerlifting, Strongest Man Comp's etc are very popular and recieve alot of attention in that part of the world. Fyodor Emelianenko's idol growing up was olympic weightlifter Yuri Vlasov.

Also Weightlifters are said to be the most explosive athletes and since Americans seem to think that jumping (bball) is such an important role on what "athleticism" equates to you may be interested to know that alot of these "unathletic" weightlifters have a vertical jump that **** all over most NBA players