Stats that prove the direct link of the NFL to Heavyweight Boxing.

[JasonBoxing]

Forbes highest paid North American Athletes.

1990-1999

7 Different NA Based Heavyweights made the list during this decade.

Bowe
Holyfield
Foreman
Tyson
Lewis
Tucker
Ruddock

1 NFL Athlete made this list during the 90's.
Joe Montana during the early 90's.


2004-2014.
16 Different NFL Athletes made the Forbes highest paid list.
0 NA Based Heavyweights.


This is common sense here. I'm not saying that the NFL have hundreds of Lennox Lewises or Mike Tysons, I'm saying that the quality of North American based Heavyweights would have been higher if it wasn't for the NFL's marketing explosion starting from the late 90's.........

[bojangles1987]

Common sense falls on deaf ears when it comes to this topic. People would rather believe that America is still producing the same quality of fighters as always because it fits the agenda that American boxers are somehow intrinsically inferior. Then they purposely misconstrue the argument to pretend we're saying there are a lot of NFL/NBA players who would walk into boxing and be great.

[Check_hooks]

I think JJ Watt would beat anyone in the NFL in a 1 on 1 fight

[DARKSEID]

Well it's really ****ing simple.

An athlete can only dedicate his life to one sport. You can't fight for titles on weekdays, play in the NFL on weekends and play in the NBA on wednesdays.

There is only a limited pool of extraordinary level athletic talent, and boxing is not the number 1 sport in America, so many of the best american athletes don't go into boxing, they dedicate themselves to other sports.

If you can't grasp your head around that concept then the bottom line is you're a ****ing moron.

[Infamous]

Well it's really ****ing simple.

An athlete can only dedicate his life to one sport. You can't fight for titles on weekdays, play in the NFL on weekends and play in the NBA on wednesdays.

There is only a limited pool of extraordinary level athletic talent, and boxing is not the number 1 sport in America, so many of the best american athletes don't go into boxing, they dedicate themselves to other sports.

If you can't grasp your head around that concept then the bottom line is you're a ****ing moron.

And that's the bottom line cuz stone cold Genius said so!!!

[IMDAZED]

This wasn't the same OP who made all those threads about Larry the other day is it?

[DeadLikeMe]

Common sense falls on deaf ears when it comes to this topic. People would rather believe that America is still producing the same quality of fighters as always because it fits the agenda that American boxers are somehow intrinsically inferior. Then they purposely misconstrue the argument to pretend we're saying there are a lot of NFL/NBA players who would walk into boxing and be great.

Every. Single. Thread.

[Fetta]

Kids like playing Football, grow up and continue to like playing it

[YOU WILL LOSE]

aka "oooh look at all those stong black dudes they must be able to fight". if only we could have access to more black dudes and boxing would be back on the map.lmao. stop it son, sad new man more boxers have regular jobs than are in the nfl. numbers game. deal with it.

this logic people wouldnt consider jj watt as legit even if he did make it to be a boxer.

[Spray_resistant]

aka "oooh look at all those stong black dudes they must be able to fight". if only we could have access to more black dudes and boxing would be back on the map.lmao. stop it son, sad new man more boxers have regular jobs than are in the nfl. numbers game. deal with it.

this logic people wouldnt consider jj watt as legit even if he did make it to be a boxer.

Just like how Calzaghe was going to be in for a serious beating because Lacy was so black and muscled up.