Kone?

because basketball is a game where you try to ktfo your opponents with your fists.

next patient.

 

98 percent of all seven footers dont even go in to sports, very few people go in to professional sports in general regardless of athletic potential. And no, people that tall wont make good boxers, they would be clumsy and uncoordinated for boxing.

 

There is nothing difficult about basketball, you people have no idea how easy it is to control the ball with your hands, and jog around a small court. Its not a science like boxing, you just have to be tall, lucky and give a rats ***

 

There are more taller and heavier and more muscular guys as you get further on in time. Working out/weights, nutrition and drugs add up.

Stats do not lie. population increases, more nations join in, and rules favor greater HW size.

Developed nations have mostly peaked in average/genetic height though. Due to nutrition.

 

Except most people who are 7 foot tall dont even end up in professional sports regardless of athletic ability, they end up in ordinary jobs. Even those that persuade College sports do so for the scholarship or just to get in to a University for a degree. Very few people would want to put their bodies through years of abuse as an athlete. Basketball players also die younger than their shorter counterparts.

This asinine opinion is pathetic, its like saying all shorter people end up as world class Jockeys or medium sized people with long arms end up in handball

 

Not only they were smaller than the current heavyweights but they fought a lot more rounds than the current ones do as well. There were 40 - 60 rounds or so in a boxing match during that period. How amazing!

 

Look up/Google the % of just seven footer Americans IN actual pro B-ball.

"Currently, there are 36 seven-footers in the NBA, out of 390 on active rosters. That's about 11 percent. Finally, a study in 2011 claimed that the probability of a U.S. citizen at least seven feet tall to play in the NBA was 17 percent.Jun 15, 2015".
The latter fact/study is very well known.

It is also extremely hard to reach the highest levels of any popular sport, certainly the NBA.
The skill set and competition is huge.

 

I was talking in general not just those that play pro sports. And its true, most tall people dont even end up in sports to begin with, especially basketball.

 

Wasn’t there a really tall Chinese heavyweight on the scene not long ago?

Those Chinese and Japanese heavyweights never fight anyone with a pulse

 

if boxing the sport evolves to 6 to 8 rounders with even slower paced fights that today, instead of 10 to 12 rounds at the top level then there may be room for the 7 footers to step in and become the elite.

 

Ruiz vs AJ showed that size does not make a good fighter.

We have been in the age of "bodybuilding. Com" and the obsession of big tall muscle men but the reality is you can either fight, or you can't.

Chin, mentality, punch power, stamina, all of these things are 90% natural and have nothing to do with size.

You look at most of the best pro fighters in history and barely any of them look like captain America, and I don't see that changing.

 

I would love to see that one day would be great like a taller Tyson Fury with 1 punch KO power

 

Whilst boxing is a lot more punishing on your body I'm not sure if it's as 'difficult' as basketball or football (soccer). There have been boxers who started the sport as late as 20 and went on to have good careers. Wilder is one of them, even Joshua.

In a sport like soccer (and I'm guessing it's the same in basketball) that is impossible, talents are spotted in their early teens, sometimes younger and by the time they are 20 they are already playing at the highest possible level for their given talent/skills and they are unlikely to improve on that level by much.

 

Dychko is probably the leading HW close to 7 ft.

(outside of Fury)

 

I met LeBron James a few years ago. I'm 6'3 and I would absolutely hate having to take someone of that size on. He was like someone from another planet.