Is America too rich to produce a hungry HW?

[TensionKiller]

Most boxers come from a hard background, well at least the successful ones. Basketball is a lot safer and America Football is so much more fun to play. Team sports are easier to motivate yourself for training.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

all of our HWs are hungry...you seen Arreola and James Toney?

[Jloro]

Or most the people nowadays who would be heavy weights are fat and lazy.

[ИATAS]

There's more money and opportunities in football and basketball. Try being from the ****** and getting a scholarship at a University for boxing. Not going to happen.

[-Kev-]

all of our HWs are hungry...you seen Arreola and James Toney?

Wow, you sort of stole my joke. I didn't even have to read your post. Once I saw your name I knew you said a joke about the HW's being hungry in a literal sense.

I'll say it anyway.

"Well, all America produces are hungry Heavyweights, literally".

[hectari]

I remember an oldschool boxer said something like back in the day we never had handouts we had to work hard for our money, we would work on the farm, do hard work, never had any money given to us, he said it produced strong will and hunger.

That's why you get a lot of the toughest boxers today from the third world or places that don't pamper the poor like the former soviet union. America is the only country with the poor kids can wear jordans and the poor kids are fat.

[Russian Crushin]

The klitschkos dont come from a hard background and are very successful

[hectari]

The klitschkos dont come from a hard background and are very successful

Yes they did man, those eastern block fighters grew up cold, they were disciplined and never pampered. I saw their documentary those bros grew up poor.

[TensionKiller]

The klitschkos dont come from a hard background and are very successful

Yes but they are boring as ****, and use their size great. Plus Vitali uses Roids and Wlad paws his left hand which are both illegal.

[-Kev-]

Like Natas said, no use in turning to boxing when you can start of at $400-500k a year as a rookie playing NFL/NBA/MLB.

Also, American schools don't support boxing, not even an amateur program. Amateur boxing is safer than football.

Like I said, the minimum for a rookie in any of these three leagues is $400-500k/year and it has to go up. How long does it take for a boxer to make $400-500k a fight? I'm talking about the whackest players of these leagues, they start off at 400-500k. The journeyman of football, baseball, basketball, they guys are way more paid.

Why box? And why go through the hell of paying $100-250 a month for a boxing gym, when you can go to high school/college and play a sport for free, possibly get a scholarship?

People call it a myth, but it's no myth. American athletes are not ******. They know where the money is. You have to really love boxing and have been grown in to it to actually choose it over pro football/basketball.