John L's fame line. I thinking like the color bar, the next time a American gets the title, we should have a non American bar or something. After over a 100 years, it seems the American heavyweight is comeing to a end, if its not dead all ready. Rahman was the last American heavyweight champ, before Lewis rip it out of our hands again. There some non Americans were able to nab the title and hold it for a year or 2, but for the most part there was always a American that was ready to reclaim it for the big USA. In the last 100 plus years, we had great American champions like Sullivan and Jeff, Johnson and Dempsey, Louis and Marciano, Ali and Frazier, and Holmes and Tyson. Than something happen. It was too scary to think about it now. A Brit took the title in Lewis and from 1997(When he beat Briggs, imo for the real title) until his retirement, America was no longer the top dog. Perhaps when Lewis retire, we would have been back in the line? Noo, the Kilts came and pretty much smash the dreams of a American heavyweight champ. I say RIP American heavyweight champ, Rip. The era seems to be over for good. :| Holmes may have said there may never be other white heavyweight champ, but he did not see far, that there may never be other black American heavyweight champ either.
Well after 100 plus years, Americans seem to think the heavyweight title belong to them like the Yankees winning the series, or Apple pie. Hell Sullivan made that title what is is today lol. Baseball, Applepie and the heavyweight championship used to be all American.
I respect people having that mentality but just don't share it myself. It's like the controversy over the new rumored Escape From New York remake (which is controversial as it is; they need to leave John Carpenter's eccentric body of work well enough alone!) - when Kurt Russell heard that the role of Snake was perhaps to be portrayed by British actor Gerard Butler (of 300) he became enraged, and lambasted the choice of a non-American for the "quintessential American character". I can sort of understand Kurt's feelings, but it still just seems totally petty and ultimately not a substantial issue. They should choose the best actor, regardless of their country of origin. The most important qualification for Snake Plissken should be "badass", not U.S. citizenship.
Tell that to the world cup. One thing I have noticed in a long life is that people tend to assume that current trends in almost anything will continue into the future. So you get talk like there will never be another white champion, British champion, American champion, etc. The future when it gets here is never what people thought it would be.
the guy could be right we may be witnessing the end of the American Boxing Legendary era that what I would call it at least. Me personally I dont care where someones from, if hes can fight, dance, show class, im watchin
Oh, I don't know. I wouldn't play taps for the United States just yet. I think we will be seeing another heavyweight champion from the United States sometime in the not too distant future. Somebody will come along.
The Klitschkos will both be past 40 in a couple of years and Haye wants to retire in his early 30s and apart from that the division is wide open. Even Haye is not exactly unbeatable even with respect to the American heavyweights. Both I think the sport being global as it is, its safe to say that America will never dominate the HW division like it did in the 1900s.
I'm not sure why any one particular country has to dominate for the division to remain interesting. Can't we be satisfied with individuals dominating until they pass the torch to the next? A dynasty of like-flagged champions seems pretty boring tbh. If there just coincidentally happened to be Ukrainian champs for the next forty years, it would be no more or less lame than if there were forty years of Americans...or Brits, or Samoans, or Sri Lankans. Outside of the Olympics, it just isn't that kind of the sport these days - even if it was perceived as such in the past. In team sports, particularly ones involving international tournaments, rooting by locale makes a bit more sense than in something where the glory should be reserved for the individual.
