USA HEavyweights

Sad but true. American heavyweights are terrible. We have a long way to go to catch up to the Europeans.

 

i agree with everything you said, we gotta get rid of Popeyes, KFC, Burger King, Miccey D's, Jack in a Box, Dunkin D--oughnuts, Krispy Kreme, etc if we wanna see some fit HW'z, cuzz Heavies these days have no discipline

 

not just American Heavyweights though, look at Sam Peter

 

You really have all those in America?

We only have McD's, Burger King, KFC and the odd Subway!

 

true Povetkin's a fatass too

 

**** that was just the abridged version theres waaaaaaaaay more **** then that.....i've lived my whole life here and i still haven't been to half the well known food spots

 

Ali couldn't run apparently, also can't imagine Foreman doing much other than punching someone in the face quite well!

I think possibly the NFL/NBA thing is just an easy scapegoat, but it is probably more a move away from boxing in general. More opportunities accross the board in terms of schooling, university, jobs, careers etc.. a general change in social demographics. Either way, the Europeans aren't managing too badly considering that football, rubgy union, rugby league, cricket, athletics and tennis get far more of their young athletic talented sportsmen than boxing does.

 

Odlanier Solis too

 

All the Russians are pudgy as well, and they don't seem to really fight that hard. Remember Igbragomov at the garden? Oof-fah!

 

Since when did rugby league(and Union for that matter) and cricket become big European sports?

 

The list was just a general selection of sports which are predominant over boxing in popularity in Europe, it's obviously very difficult to accurately describe every single European countries sporting preferences in one sentence. Football is dominant in pretty much every European country in the same way that the NFL/NBA are in america, however, there are additional sports specific to each country which still more popular than boxing.

To use the examples you picked out: Rugby Union is prevalent in France, Italy, Ireland and the UK (..and League only adds to the total number of people playing 'rugby'). Cricket is pretty specific to England, but even that gets played in schools whereas you could probably count on one hand the number of schools that allow AM boxing.

All the other examples I listed, that you chose not to pick out your quote, are more popular than boxing in many European countries. Not to mention the dominating influence of football...so the point remains.

 

the best american hws imo are:

1-Tony Thompson
2-Eddie Chambers
3-Arreola

Thompson, imo can compete with anyone besides the KLITS. he has a very akward southpaw style, big, busy, durable, tight guard

Chambers is very skilled but his size and conditioning is gonna make it tough to compete with the top 5 hws.

Arreola is a poor man's sam peter and is somewhere between the #11-15 hw right now.