The Excuse of "american heavyweights playing nfl"

[ShatteredGlass]

Is the worst, gayest excuse i have ever heard.

Great "athletes" do NOT make great "fighters"

answer me this............

If Mike Tyson was born in the mid-late 80's, would he be playing NFL?

What about George Foreman? Muhammed Ali? Joe Frazier? Sonny Liston?

These guys are FIGHTERS, born and bred.

Look at Kobe Bryant, and these other nba and nfl guys, do they have the same fighting spirit as the afore-mentioned?

**** NO

Accept it Yanks, you're FIGHTERS are all either, lazy and out of shape, or just plain NOT GOOD ENOUGH

stop telling me that bloody Michael Vick or Lebron James could have beaten the Klitschko's if they were boxers.


Fact is you're fighters are either lazy, or just straight up suck.

The Klitschko brothers are Warriors, the Yanks have gone soft.

[thiefery]

I actually think the nba has some diamond in the rough playing bball instead of fighting.. but in all honesty would you rather ball or take punches to the head and body for a living??

[Check]

It's not an excuse it's the truth. Great athletes can certainly mean great fighters. Sure, if a NFL player stepped in the ring right now he would get blistered but if he had focused his whole childhood on boxing his chances of success would be great. You bring up Mike Tyson and the NFL. Had Tyson decided to play football instead he probably would of done well at that as well. Thing is NFL was not as large as it is now and Boxing was still pretty big here, so he chose boxing. IMO the best athletes in American, boxing related, are playing in the NBA though. The rise of the NBA has really hurt American Boxing.

[thiefery]

Also if tyson was born in the mid 80's he would probably be a member of an entourage for some rapper

[cdsimple]

Great "athletes" do NOT make great "fighters"

So you don't think that RJJ, Joe Calzaghe, Manny Paquiao, Ali, Ray Leonard, etc... are/were great athletes?

[ShatteredGlass]

It's not an excuse it's the truth. Great athletes can certainly mean great fighters. Sure, if a NFL player stepped in the ring right now he would get blistered but if he had focused his whole childhood on boxing his chances of success would be great. You bring up Mike Tyson and the NFL. Had Tyson decided to play football instead he probably would of done well at that as well. Thing is NFL was not as large as it is now and Boxing was still pretty big here, so he chose boxing. IMO the best athletes in American, boxing related, are playing in the NBA though. The rise of the NBA has really hurt American Boxing.

Let me give you an example.

Brock Lesnar, UFC champion, great FIGHTER, freak of nature athlete, ****** at american football.

Great athletes CAN make good fighters, but it's not transferrable, fighting is a mentality, maybe some can cross over but very few indeed.

Lebron James is far more likely to have been another audley harrison or michael grant than the next Muhammed Ali.

This excuse is lame, i am sick of excuses.

[ShatteredGlass]

So you don't think that RJJ, Joe Calzaghe, Manny Paquiao, Ali, Ray Leonard, etc... are/were great athletes?

Great Athletes AND Fighters.

Audley Harrison, GREAT ATHLETE
Michael Grant GREAT ATHLETE
Larry Olubamiwo GREAT ATHLETE
Jeff Lacy GREAT ATHLETE

Get it straight, it is a MENTALITY that very few have.

You are born with it, you do not learn it.

Those who have it, will find their platform

[Check]

Lets not take all the credit away from fighters from across the world though. Boxing has evolved, more nations are interested, and with interest comes better talent but with less interest(what boxing is going through America) comes less talent as well. Don't get it twisted though the best athletes in America don't compete in boxing anymore. If they did America would have a stranglehold on the sport again because our training is bar none. Instead we dropped from a stranglehold to having a bit of competition from Mexico. I know it's hard for people to accept but American will always have the best athletes in the world.

[qari]

sergio martinez=great athlete and great fighter he started boxing at 20 so it does sumtyms mean it

[{Darko}]

Let me give you an example.

Brock Lesnar, UFC champion, great FIGHTER, freak of nature athlete, ****** at american football.

Great athletes CAN make good fighters, but it's not transferrable, fighting is a mentality, maybe some can cross over but very few indeed.

Lebron James is far more likely to have been another audley harrison or michael grant than the next Muhammed Ali.

This excuse is lame, i am sick of excuses.

he cowers and curls up into the fetal position when hit in the face. wrestler sure, fighter no.