Top 10 white heavyweights

Except this is almost completely incorrect.

 

James is a once in a generation type of player and basketball has little in common with boxing.

From the 1990 to current, 27 years and counting the #1 spot is almost always held by a super heavyweight. And when the super heavyweight was knocked out by a puncher, the man who did it was 20+ pounds love Louis weight. Only once id the super heavyweight lose on points, and that was a controversial razor thin decision.

I'm not saying Louis or Dempsey could not win as they were punchers, I'm saying the are up against the odds.

The amateur game is essentially the same with the top 5-6 spots held by large super heavyweight types with skills.

6'4" to 6'6" tall used to be rare pre 1980 for the top amateurs or professional heavyweights, now its common in the top ten. Think about that for a moment.

 

I agree but Steph is up there. And he's not some athletic specimen. At least not to the level of his peers that he continually outperforms.

You have to admit that he performs at an incredibly high level while not being high on the physicality department for an NBA player.

 

Well said, and clearly the average HW has gotten bigger. But if you take Tyson or Louis and put them in the modern division they'll be murdereing people just like they did in their time.

We're one great fighter away from a 5"10 champ. Or a 210lb one.

We shouldn't lose sight of that.

 

Good post but it probably won't do much against the standard Classic rebuttal: "Heavyweights are all bums now, and of course big bums can beat smaller bums."

 

Why is their such a lack of white representation in the HW division historically? Black poverty? Or is it similar to running (obv more complex) in that black humans are genetically superior? Or does the recent white revival from eastern europe dis-spell this?

 

I think that it mainly depends upon which social group is at the bottom of the pile.

 

LMMFAO. Ur killing me.

 

Not sure what the standards for the lists im reading here are, but in terms of both H2H and number of contenders/decent fighters beaten/resumee the K brothers should be at the top.
Not sure what some of these guys did to be ranked above the K's.

 

Are you kidding? He's a second generation NBA player. He's a gifted athlete who was raised to play professional basketball. He's the NBA equivalent of Floyd Mayweather.

 

Black poverty. Average white kid has no reason to become a fighter. Alot of black kids dont either, but certainly to a greater extent than white kids.

 

What about lung capacity or something to do with oxygen. Don't blacks have an advantage there or does that only really benefit sprinters for short bursts rather than stamina over 12/15/whatever rounds?

 

I suppose that is true. What about my post below yours? Is there any discernible strengths & weaknesses in a boxing sense between fighters of different genetic races?

 

i think there are more poor white kids than poor black kids in US. That alone isn't a reason.

 

Nothing scientific.