Is America too rich to produce a hungry HW?

[damuttz112]

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 stupid. 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.

This. It's a different game now. The Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson used to get paid 80mil at one point in time. It's changed.

Even here in Australia the incentive to play rugby is far greater, train for a couple of years and get substantial wealth with the lifestyle or train in obscurity for years in hope of a payday that may never come.

[Cutthroat]

This arguements is weak. The percentage of people who make the NFL/NBA is like .00000001......we gonna act like there's no more athletes in that other 99% of people in the United States?

Also with this NFL/NBA logic..... It's safe to say the reason European fighters don't dominate the lower weight classes is cause they're all playing soccer, correct? A 19 year old soccer stud in Europe makes EVEN MORE then a rookie in the NFL/NBA....yet there's still plenty of good fighters from Europe from 130-200...

You don't understand, do you live in America? If you do you should know that nearly EVERY single child in America at age 11-12 is allowed to play school sports which range from Soccer, football, basketball, swimming, wrestling, tennis, baseball, track and field etc. for FREE.

These kids don't know any better, hell at age 13 I even thought I could play in the NBA one day.

A single football roster will consist of around 40 players. Right now in America there are at least 10.8 million 18 year olds playing football, that's not counting all the children, nor the other sports.


Boxing isn't even in the top 10 most popular sports in America.

[PureBoxingCEO]

Wylder looks very hungry to me.

[StarshipTrooper]

This arguements is weak. The percentage of people who make the NFL/NBA is like .00000001......we gonna act like there's no more athletes in that other 99% of people in the United States?

Also with this NFL/NBA logic..... It's safe to say the reason European fighters don't dominate the lower weight classes is cause they're all playing soccer, correct? A 19 year old soccer stud in Europe makes EVEN MORE then a rookie in the NFL/NBA....yet there's still plenty of good fighters from Europe from 130-200... Come on now, stop with these silly excuses as to why there's no good American HW's...... AND to top it all off, even if those NBA/NFL Players DID box, so what? You act as if if all these NBA/NFL players boxed from a young age, they'd be world class fighters just because....sorry bro doesn't work like that.

Anybody pansy assed enough to go into soccer would never make it in boxing so sorry soccer is NOT draining Euros of boxing talent.

Poet

[Tom Cruise]

Anybody pansy assed enough to go into soccer would never make it in boxing so sorry soccer is NOT draining Euros of boxing talent.

Poet

If you grew up boxing instead of playing football (soccer) that would surely negate the pansiness?

Also NBA is a non-contact sport and people are saying that steals talent so...

[King_]

Anybody pansy assed enough to go into soccer would never make it in boxing so sorry soccer is NOT draining Euros of boxing talent.

Poet

I'm not even going to reply to this. That's just a silly post, come on now.

[Hougigo]

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

Hahaha, good stuff.
But too many sports for our big boys to play.
Why box when you can play basketball or football for millions?

[StarshipTrooper]

I'm not even going to reply to this. That's just a silly post, come on now.

Soccer's a girls sport. Bottom line.

Poet

[Cutthroat]

If you grew up boxing instead of playing football (soccer) that would surely negate the pansiness?

Also NBA is a non-contact sport and people are saying that steals talent so...

Basketball can actually be a very physical sport with guys fighting for rebounds, diving and falling on the floor, posting up etc. Try standing still and let a 280lb beast run you over to draw a foul. The NBA is where it really gets toned down because they want to protect their million $ athletes.


Soccer is actually the most played youth sport in the USA, however once we reach middle school at age 11 we are offered many types of sports and people abandon it to play more dangerous sports like Am football.
That's if we don't choose to play youth football/basketball/baseball etc. aside of youth soccer. (these youth sports occur out of school)

[Tom Cruise]

Basketball can actually be a very physical sport with guys fighting for rebounds, diving and falling on the floor, posting up etc. Try standing still and let a 280lb beast run you over to draw a foul. The NBA is where it really gets toned down because they want to protect their million $ athletes.


Soccer is actually the most played youth sport in the USA, however once we reach middle school at age 11 we are offered many types of sports and people abandon it to play more dangerous sports like Am football.
That's if we don't choose to play youth football/basketball/baseball etc. aside of youth soccer. (these youth sports occur out of school)

Im sure basketball is tough...

Either way it makes no difference because people arent born sissy, and they dont choose a sport because of how sissy they are. If someone whos a pussy in football now, say Christiano Ronaldo, grew up boxing, then he wouldnt be a sissy. Thats my only point on that tbh.

Also you cant act like everyone else in the world is dedicating their lives to boxing while america is doing all these other sports. Boxing is a fringe sport here as well, we dont do it in schools, theres hardly any gyms, hell most 'boxing' people do is that crappy fitness stuff...