Comments Thread For: UFC's Greg Hardy Predicts KOs Of Fury, Joshua, Wilder Once He Crosses Over To Boxing

[kafkod]

More proof that those who would have been heavyweights in the past are now in football and basketball. Somewhere around the 90s we stopped seeing elite heavyweights from the USA vanish. Seems like the guys born in the 60s were the last batch of good American heavyweights. It makes complete sense, the NFL as opposed to the AFL, actually had quotas on how many black players they would let into football, it wasnt until the 70s that you saw the combined league hit 20-30% black, and now the nfl is 70% black. The dominant era of black American heavyweights from the 30s to the 90s is gone. The lack of good amateur programs in the inner cities I would conjecture has a lot to do with kids playing football and basketball in schools....those sports lead to university degrees before you go professional and guarantee million dollar contracts.....some hundreds of millions of dollars. Sorry American fellas, you’ll have strong presence from Jr lightweight to super middleweight, maybe light heavyweight as the natural middles and super middleweight move up but any young man with the height and athleticism is probably going to be moved towards the big three American sports of basketball, football, and baseball. Shooting guards, small forwards, strong safeties, defensive/offensive ends, quarterbacks, running backs, linebackers the lot of them.....

[rojo45]

will get knock out by club fighter

[VashDBasher]

What a joker. Put him against a top 50 fighter and we’ll see how well (or badly) he fares against him.

[Baba K]

This cat is funny

[jonnyc420]

Anyone of those threw destroy this clown.

[tokon]

Puuuleeeze!

[South Champion]

Put him in with Mike Tyson.

[Unidentified]

Hardy will have to bring all his guns to ring for that to happen...

[ShoulderRoll]

"Cry-Baby Bomber."

Shots fired!

[Removed Now]

More proof that those who would have been heavyweights in the past are now in football and basketball. Somewhere around the 90s we stopped seeing elite heavyweights from the USA vanish. Seems like the guys born in the 60s were the last batch of good American heavyweights. It makes complete sense, the NFL as opposed to the AFL, actually had quotas on how many black players they would let into football, it wasnt until the 70s that you saw the combined league hit 20-30% black, and now the nfl is 70% black. The dominant era of black American heavyweights from the 30s to the 90s is gone. The lack of good amateur programs in the inner cities I would conjecture has a lot to do with kids playing football and basketball in schools....those sports lead to university degrees before you go professional and guarantee million dollar contracts.....some hundreds of millions of dollars. Sorry American fellas, you’ll have strong presence from Jr lightweight to super middleweight, maybe light heavyweight as the natural middles and super middleweight move up but any young man with the height and athleticism is probably going to be moved towards the big three American sports of basketball, football, and baseball. Shooting guards, small forwards, strong safeties, defensive/offensive ends, quarterbacks, running backs, linebackers the lot of them.....

I mean we already knew this but good input. ^^^^^^^