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Your response had nothing to do with what I said. My point was, if the NFL is supposed to be responsible for stealing athletes today then how come boxing's HW division has almost always been full of fat asses, even when boxing was "supposedly" one of the biggest sports. Out of shape heavyweights are nothing new. The HW shortage has always existed.
Also on what you said, college football and baseball were still much bigger than boxing then too. College football was the major American football outlet back then.Comment
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Not this nonsense again.
Every nation has multiple sports which compete for athletes, it has always been the case and this is nothing new.Comment
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Very good point. Just to add to that, more than likely, Lennox probably wouldn't be faced with the choice of choosing boxing or football because it is so hard to find a boxing gym these days he probably wouldn't get exposure to the sport at all.
I will use myself as an example. Coming out of high school, i was a really good athlete. I excelled at baseball and football and ended up playing football in college on scholarship. Where I live, boxing just doesn't exist. We all knew about the big names like Tyson and Holyfield, but if I wanted to try to box, It would have been very difficult for me to find a gym. I really didn't get to try boxing until i was 22 or so, but once I did, I instantly fell in love with it. If I had a chance to box while i was in school, I probably would have dropped all sports and concentrated on boxing but I just didn't have any exposure to it until I was older because boxing gyms are nonexistant.Comment
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