A.B.A Vs A.B.L ? The feud that is ruing aussie boxing from the roots !

you got to be in it to win it m8, i dont think its fair short changing any fighter, this is boxing and anythings possible. Look at guys like Dwane Crowe for example, he fought over 40 fights in the League, sure he won league titles, two time australian league champ etc but he never got the chance to represent his country until he made the swap, a year after doing so he was fighting overseas in the kings cup team with the likes of Robbie Peden and Dwanes from Leton, a country boy just like me. He proved in my eyes that it can be done so when people speak about oh its to hard u never make it in ABA i think this is just rubish and an excuse to push boxers away from the ABA.

The Holy grail of boxing is the olympic gold, why would you not throw your hat into this mix and short change yourself? Danny Green fought for the ABA and look how well he did when he turned pro. You chose to fight the fence style or your own style as Green did in the elimination bouts he fought in the games. Sure Bobo will be pissed afterwards but its your choice, the cubans dont fight with a fence style and are quite hard handed, much can be learnt from these guys imo and sending our teams over for some training or even better to contract out a cuban boxing coach as did the thais some years ago and in doing so winning gold for the first time in amateur boxing.

We have countrys like thailand that are beating us and its organisations like the league that split the pool of talent in this country and im sad to have to say it but you league, global guys are not the same league back when MIck Canavan was around, you have all done him a diss service and shouldnt hang your heads in shame, you have done nothing to improve the position of the league and bring it from strength to strength, rather you have wrung the life from it and its slowing on the azz of dying.

Much of the talent has swaped to the ABA, there is barely any talent left in the league and the talent that is there is VERY raw. Many of the boxers wee see today all come through the ABA. The competition and quality of fighters is MUCH higher now in the ABA than the league.

If you race with people who excell in what they do you get faster, you pick up some of that talent as it pushes you to test yourself, if your put in with bar room brawlers etc you will just be a brawler and really not improve much at all, your not forced to think, to box etc. go to most league shows and they are all just scraps and brawls. Enteraining for the **** heads sure but for boxing fans like myself it puts me to sleep or makes me laugh. Boxings not a comedy act but its soon becoming one with these league shows and the corruption that has crept in.