Does Wilder prove the argument all the great American HW's went to other sports?

[Luilun]

I think there’s more gangster thugs who if they took up boxing you make better fighters than these Foot ball players or basket ball players . Every great fighter always has a story how he grow up in the mean streets of where they come from

[HanzGruber]

brezeale is an example too.. he was an average quarterback for a D1 college, and got 2 fights at a world title lol

[D4thincarnation]

I guess Europeans would be dominated welter all the way up light-heavy if it wasn't for football.

Just think of the talent lost there.

[The D3vil]

Well yeah, everybody knows it's true.

It's just the rest of the world doesn't like to admit that guys like The Klitschkos wouldn't have stood a chance if guys like LeBron & Cam Newton had decided to train their whole lives in boxing rather than football & basketball

[The D3vil]

I guess Europeans would be dominated welter all the way up light-heavy if it wasn't for football.

Just think of the talent lost there.

No because soccer is more about skill than pure athleticism. That's why America's so bad at it. Soccer is not a sport that our best athletes start playing early enough that they can be professionals early enough to be great.

Europe is not producing the best pure athletes (fastest, highest jumpers, strongest, etc. . .).

[Toffee]

The reality is that boxing draws from a very small talent pool. The money isn't there in the sport to attract lots of people to dedicating their career to it.

Look at football (soccer). Huge talent pool yet over the last couple of decades they've started farming kids out of Africa and they've dominated.

If you wanted to produce world champions, you'd be running programs in Africa.

[D4thincarnation]

No because soccer is more about skill than pure athleticism. That's why America's so bad at it. Soccer is not a sport that our best athletes start playing early enough that they can be professionals early enough to be great.

Europe is not producing the best pure athletes (fastest, highest jumpers, strongest, etc. . .).

Soccer is a cardio sport just like boxing, you need to be supremely fit to compete.

Agility, balance are also be contributors.

Boxing is also a skilled sport that most start at a young age.


And most young children in America play soccer. Americans fail because others are better.

[The D3vil]

Soccer is a cardio sport just like boxing, you need to be supremely fit to compete.

Agility, balance are also be contributors.

Boxing is also a skilled sport that most start at a young age.


And most young children in America play soccer. Americans fail because others are better.

Boxing is not merely a "cardio sports" , it's a sport that having cardio is a great thing to have, but nobody walks into a boxing gym and says, "look at that kid's great cardio" or we'd be recruiting the Kenyans who win the marathons to be boxers.

And even then, Europeans do not have better cardio than anyone else. They do not produce the best runners in the world, short distance or long distance.

Boxing is much more of a sport where power, speed, and agility are rewarded and once again, Europe does not produce the fastest, most agile, and powerful athletes in general
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And dude, all Americans do not play soccer at young ages.

I've never met a Black person in my life who played soccer (not saying that none of us do), and I've been Black & lived in an all-Black city most of my life and our community produces virtually all of America's world class pure athletes.

[boogbx]

Even black folk acknowledge that Lebron can barely take a hard foul and people expect him to take power punches from HW fighters?

They are great at their sports for a reason. Many football players or former athletes have tried their luck at boxing with no luck at all.

Boxing ain’t a game, ain’t a sport that’s played. You put your life on the line willing to take your opponents in return.

Few people are built for
Boxing, leave it to the few and the proud.

[D4thincarnation]

Boxing is not merely a "cardio sports" , it's a sport that having cardio is a great thing to have, but nobody walks into a boxing gym and says, "look at that kid's great cardio" or we'd be recruiting the Kenyans who win the marathons to be boxers.

And even then, Europeans do not have better cardio than anyone else. They do not produce the best runners in the world, short distance or long distance.

Boxing is much more of a sport where power, speed, and agility are rewarded and once again, Europe does not produce the fastest, most agile, and powerful athletes in general
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And dude, all Americans do not play soccer at young ages.

I've never met a Black person in my life who played soccer (not saying that none of us do), and I've been Black & lived in an all-Black city most of my life and our community produces virtually all of America's world class pure athletes.

Cardio is a must for boxing. If you go to a boxing gym they won't even let you spar till you can prove your fitness.

And soccer is about cardio and is about sprints and then recover and sprints again. Very similar to boxing, it is how quick you recover that is important.


24 million people play soccer in the US, that is more that play it in the UK