If Cuba went professional

I am sorry but Europe is the future of boxing.

 

The Cuabans that have come through seem even more special though.

Europe is not the future of boxing I'm afraid, the likes of Luis Garcia, Erislandy Lara, Yuriorkis Gamboa and (FINALLY) Guillermo Rigondeux look far more exiciting as well as being more technically competent due to their wealth of amateur experience.

 

Garcia, Lara and Guillermo are all fighting out of European countries
They reside here, and Guillermo can't even fight in the US afaik, for some legal reason.

 

Well, think About it. Would you fight 12 rounds against another guy if you knew the government will keep the money??? Very different from amateur. They would need a big incentive.

 

Not my point at all. Nationality rather than where they are based.

 

usa is and always will be the home of boxing

 

The Cubans you mentioned all fight in the lower weight classes,below middle anyway so they wont affect the predominance of Europeans in the higher weights.It also has to be mentioned that as great a prospects as many of these guys are all are yet to win a pro title so none of them have done it at the highest level which still obviously leaves question marks as to whether their amateur tailored games can cross over successfully to the pro ranks.For example i still favour a Mexican kid who started as a pro at 15 with hardened pro experience behind him than a Cuban with 200 plus amateur wins and **** loads of medals just because the pros is so different, and will continue to do so until these prospects prove otherwise.

 

Hogwash! Europe is the future of many things - efficient vehicles, gay activism, soccer champions - but boxing is not one of them.

 

It is such a shame that an island with so many talented people are being kept down by a slimy dictator. There are so many good Cuban boxers that I would have loved to see turn pro.

 

I dont care what you say.

The average boxer gets way more paid here than overseas.
The amateur programmes are vastly superior to yours.

Our heavyweights are already basically nub slapping yours around, your only heavyweight of notice right now Lamon Brewster basically packed in and went to Germany to get promoted by Sauerland.

Ask any of the low- profile fighters from US that has been overseas to fight in Germany how big boxing is over here. It's huge, we get 8+ million people that tune in to watch Arthur Abraham in Germany ONLY.

 

for some reason after the collapse of the soviet union boxing in europe rised up with some good fighters.

they're more hungrier, american boxing is slowly decreasing.

but i must say latinos in boxing still got it going.

europe only dominates weight divisions above 154.

 

Yeah the latino fighters are still going very strong.:good

 

no disrespect to american boxing, but who the hell do they have except a ''retired'' floyd mayweather jr and paul williams?

winky is done

kirkland will soon get SMACKED

lameont brewster got bitched by the best heavyweight in the world

and these cubans moving to europe will be the future of boxing