Why are Eastern Europeans so good at boxing now a days

[Punch on Tap]

They just have a lot of boxing and mma programs. It’s really a numbers thing. For every Loma or Usyk there are thousands that never see the light of television/notoriety.

It’s all about how much a country invests in programs for their youth. In the Caribbean it’s track and field. In America is baseball, football, basketball. In Western Europe it’s soccer and boxing. In South America it’s soccer. The bigger the country the more you’re going to see filter into mainstream.

[The D3vil]

what about Usyk lol?

Whether we like it or not, the top 2 P4P fighters are Eastern European (Loma and Usyk), but let's not forget other top P4P fighters in Beterbiev, GGG, Briedis, etc.

Usyk above Crawford, Canelo, and Monster?

Nah, I don't think so, G.

[kidbazooka]

what about Usyk lol?

Whether we like it or not, the top 2 P4P fighters are Eastern European (Loma and Usyk), but let's not forget other top P4P fighters in Beterbiev, GGG, Briedis, etc.

Hahahaha

Hell no!!!!!!

Canelo runs this game!!!!

Nuff said

[Blueboy3]

Oh paulie is that you

[MoneyKasha]

Usyk above Crawford, Canelo, and Monster?

Nah, I don't think so, G.

Usyk is above Crawford, Usyk has a better resume than Crawford and became undisputed in a much more competitive weight class than Crawford

[JakeTheBoxer]

Hahahaha

Hell no!!!!!!

Canelo runs this game!!!!

Nuff said

I don`t remember Usyk having very close fights with his competition.

[deathofaclown]

There are some great boxers for sure, but there are great boxers from all over the world. What makes them great is the same reason for what makes other nations/regions not so great = participation. No-one can tell me that Australians and Indians are genetically superior to other nationalities because they rule at cricket, they just happen to have a talent pool of millions to select the best from instead of 5 kids who play cricket on weekends in the USA.

For every eastern European to beat a non-eastern European there is a non-E Euro beating an E-Euro.

That’s true. A lot is really down to how popular sport is to participate in.

Also you can’t really narrow down eastern European because that spans over an incredible amount of people.

You could say why has the UK produced quite a lot of good fighters when it’s a relatively small population compared to some countries and then ask why China or India hasn’t really produced any decent fighter, even with such huge populations. You can apply the same to football (soccer), Or really you could apply that to pretty much any sport that has big popularity in some places and not much popularity in others.

mostly it comes down to the popularity of sport is and the accessibility for kids getting into it.

[Mushroom]

Because they are now allowed to fight in the pros and they are into boxing. Also the population is pretty large.

[Lomadeaux]

what makes them so good, they seem to be on a roll recently. it seems like they came out of nowhere and have been doing amazingly well

are their training programs better, are they simply touger then western boxers... What is it

They also seem to be conditioned much better as well

Most of it is culture. These kids in the USA today aren't intelligent and think they're some sort of gift. There's no humility.

Showmanship is completely different than arrogance.

[The D3vil]

Usyk is above Crawford, Usyk has a better resume than Crawford and became undisputed in a much more competitive weight class than Crawford

Stop it.

Crawford's a 3 division champion, fought twice as many times, and is still undefeated.

Usyk has beat 5 world champions

Crawford has beat 7 and is about to be 8 when he smashes Kell Brook