60% of Today's P4P Best are Latino!

..but Filipino is the Best Pound for Pound Fighter today!!!

 

I guess we should be celebrating this? Who cares? Other sports have greater percentages of nationalities. (hello!!! Football , basketball, hockey) Fans just wanna see a good fight. Unless race is that important. :think

 

ya for real, nobody has the heart to train anymore. cause u can getter at ball just by playin and shootin around. for boxing its 98 percent intense training and 2 percent the actual fight.

 

you are not ******ed though. you are not so stupid as to say pac is p4p #1 and the guy who has fought him to the closest decisions does not belong in the top 10. make any sense?

 

exactly. i was talking to someone about this same thing before here on ESB. I'm a high school teacher. As tough as these kids are or think they are, they have absolutely no heart or discipline at all. Mentally, they do not have what it takes to be a GREAT boxer. Physically, they have it all, but they would break down mentally.

 

"It's probably b/c most black athletes are playing the major sports football and basketball. i honestly believe that if more black kids became boxers, boxing would be huge."

This is a very racist argument. I haven't noticed a lack of black boxers, though there is a paucity of black champions.

The NFL and NBA argument would only effect the heavyweight division anyway. And in no scenario could I see Ray Lewis or Julius Peppers lasting long with Wlad or Chagaev.

 

get real man. that is not a racist argument. the fact it would affect the heavy weight division is my point. it's been the decline of the heavyweight division that has hurt boxing. back when ali, foreman, frazier, etc...were dominating the heavy's, there werent as many dominant black athletes in football and basketball. but now that those 2 sports are pretty much dominated by black athletes, boxing (particularly the heavy weight division) has suffered.

of course you cant see ray lewis or peppers last long with Wlad. It's b/c they arent boxers. If they were, you never know.

Even basketball players potentially could be great boxers. They are long and lean. If they trained as a child for boxing, imagine what they could do. They would be built very similarly to someone like Hearns and Williams.

 

also it's not racist if you are complimenting a race. i said that more young black people in boxing would make it better. that's definitely not a negative comment.

 

and an Asian is on the top of the list!

 

10 of the 17 weight classes are dominated by Latinos so that % should actually be a bit higher

 

most black-american boxers are the more boring defensive minded boxers . . .more of that would only hurt the popularity of the sport.

 

Philippines was under the rule of Spain for 300 years. You can say Pac has some latino blood running in his veins :think

 

yeah and PAC has more cause he never got KD'd even once in their 2 fights. still a PAC win.