Would it even be a question that the US would still dominate the HW division

[Marchegiano]

It's just the flow of history kids. from greece to rome, rome to ukraine, ukraine to england, and england to the US.

Did Ukraine just lose its reign to the UK?


This time things will be different though yeah?

[boliodogs]

He is only 18 so he could go into boxing right now if he wanted to. Nothing is stopping him from doing that except that he wants to be a basketball player and not a boxer. I doubt he would become a heavyweight boxing champion anyway. Boxing is very hard and a completely different sport. The great heavyweight champions in history have weighed between 180 and 240 pounds. Not a single great heavyweight in the history of the sport weighed anywhere near 280 pounds. It seems when boxers get too big they lose so much speed, skill, stamina and even the ability to take a punch that they lose to the best more normal sized heavyweights. If every pro basketball player had gone into boxing instead I doubt the USA would be any more dominate in heavyweight boxing than they are now and the same goes for pro football. It's just an excuse.

[sentax]

Well, you're kind of saying that if the US devoted all its' athletic resources solely to boxing they would completely dominate it and that may well be true. But that obviously would never happen and might apply to many other nations anyway. It's not like boxing is the #1 sport anywhere else either. In the UK it's what - #5, #6? If that.

Regardless it's way more popular in the UK in proportion to its homegrown sports than in the US.

Wilder had an interview recently where he admitted boxing is behind college sports in the US in popularity.

Look at AJ, if this 6'6", 250 lbs guy grew up in the US I'd wager if he could have made it in US football over boxing he would have chosen that.

The massive public praise AJ gets as boxer in the UK is something no boxer gets in the US anymore. That's reserved for the top NFL or NBA stars now.