All New Zealand HW boxers are in rugby....

[New England]

Thread went pretty much how I expected it to, lmaaaoooooooo.

i hate to say it but i love threads like this one


the foreigners really cant win
they never owned the divsision

we kept it in our back pockets

when we adopted other sports we let them have it.

it's really that simple.


they open the discussion
we finish it

[SirTomJones]

i hate to say it but i love threads like this one


the foreigners really cant win
they never owned the divsision

we kept it in our back pockets

when we adopted other sports we let them have it.

it's really that simple.


they open the discussion
we finish it

this thread was supposed to be more about Sonny Bill than the tongue in cheek comment about rugby/nba/nfl which is always brought up in a HW thread.

your attitude makes me laugh. america has gone soft

[New England]

this thread was supposed to be more about Sonny Bill than the tongue in cheek comment about rugby/nba/nfl which is always brought up in a HW thread.

your attitude makes me laugh. america has gone soft

well to be fair sonny bill looks like a bad ass
and if we wanted to take back the division all roads would lead to sonny bill

[SirTomJones]

If I was a boxing fan from America I would be butt hurt if those 'commies' knocked down the wall and then took the glamour division of boxing for their own.

[Sweet Pea 50]

If I was a boxing fan from America I would be butt hurt if those 'commies' knocked down the wall and then took the glamour division of boxing for their own.

Meh, the HW division was never really my thing, anyways, when I was growing up watching the sport.

[Kagami Taiga]

If I was a boxing fan from America I would be butt hurt if those 'commies' knocked down the wall and then took the glamour division of boxing for their own.

what is there to be butthurt about? america is one nation and we are still on top of boxing. its all good.

[Furn]

Let's face it, anyone who chooes to play a non contact fairy sports like basketball or needs to wear a helmet and pads to play football isn't likely to have the courage required to make it as a top boxer.

Australia and new Zealand have never dominated the boxing because rugby and Aussie rules have always been popular a that's where the best athletes in the world go.

[SirTomJones]

Meh, the HW division was never really my thing, anyways, when I was growing up watching the sport.

most people when someone mentions boxing people tend to think of the likes of Ali and Tyson.

I always preferred watching the division with people fighting at the same weight as me personally. I don't know why


BTW i am 168lbs.

[sweetpea87]

No, you dont undersand.

Fat Yanks are the only ones who have other sports.

Just the fat ones, or do skinny ones have other sports too?

[ShoulderRoll]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heavyweight_boxing_champions

Going by this Wikipedia page I count 50 American heavyweight champions since 1882. (it was hard to count them because there were so many, and some of the names repeated.)

Since 1882 New Zealand has had.......wait for it.....0 heavyweight champions.

So there is a reason to ask why US boxing has dropped off. There is no reason to ask why New Zealand boxing has dropped off.

Because going from 0 to 0 is not a drop off.