Black American dominance of boxing slowly fading?

[Da Pimper]

Look at the boxing landscape today:
Undisputed P4P #1- Canelo (Irish Mexican)

Heavyweight champs- AJ and Fury (Both British)

Crawford is getting old and Spence got ruined in car accident

Only Devin Haney really remain. And he will have to fight Teofimo Lopez, Loma, and Lomachenko.

Black Americans like Sugar Hill have shares too much of their secrets with other people’s, and now they’re catching up.

[_Rexy_]

I’d give an answer, but I don’t see this thread lasting very long...

[MartialMind]

It's not the 60s, 70s, 80s or even 90s anymore.

If you're black in America are well built and are athletic you'll go into either the NFL or NBA.

It's not coincidence Deontay is a failed basketball prospect who took up boxing on whim.

If AJ had grown up in the states he'd have most likely tried to go into American football himself.

[Chollo Vista]

Can you imagine if LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Zion Williamson, Ray Lewis, Kawhi Leonard, Butler, etc were trained by Manny Steward?

That's just off the top of my head

[glenn mcrory]

Can you imagine if LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Zion Williamson, Ray Lewis, Kawhi Leonard, Butler, etc were trained by Manny Steward?

That's just off the top of my head

Excuses.
So at best there would be more heavyweights?

How does that fix the other 16 weightclasses?

[Chollo Vista]

Excuses.
So at best there would be more heavyweights?

How does that fix the other 16 weightclasses?

Just take a look at the NBA's starting point guards... Those are your Junior Middleweights through Light Heavyweights

Andre Ward is a coming off the bench small point guard.

Nate Robinson would do damage at 160.

[Luilun]

It's not the 60s, 70s, 80s or even 90s anymore.

If you're black in America are well built and are athletic you'll go into either the NFL or NBA.

It's not coincidence Deontay is a failed basketball prospect who took up boxing on whim.

If AJ had grown up in the states he'd have most likely tried to go into American football himself.

Only 1% make it to NFL or NBA there's many people still left thats just an excuse the problem is more Whites and Hispanics box today. Eastern Europe wasn't allowed to box back than . When Eastern boxers came into the ranks more Whites through Europe stated boxing

[Chollo Vista]

Excuses.
So at best there would be more heavyweights?

How does that fix the other 16 weightclasses?

And this isn't even counting the small, fast twitched muscle cornerbacks in college and the NFL

Dominic Breazeale was a low level D2/D3 Quarterback for crying out loud.... Imagine what Cam Newton would do or Mike Vick at Cruiserweight

[Luilun]

Excuses.
So at best there would be more heavyweights?

How does that fix the other 16 weightclasses?

Just because you can play ball doesn't mean you can fight. Remember you can be the greatest Athlete but in boxing you also need a chin where as in basket ball or Foot ball you don't. Your argument is like well If Mexicans didn't play soccer or Wrestle in Lucha Libre they would run boxing up to 175 pounds .

[TMLT87]

Situation has been changing since the iron curtain fell, most of the best white fighters are from Russia/Eastern Europe.


I do find the "all the black Americans are playing in the NFL and NBA now" excuse hilarious though, as though boxing is the only sport that exists everywhere else on the planet.