America needs a Shift in mentality to dominate the heavyweight scene once again

What happened?
You don't know?

The NFL happened. More jobs, more money.

 

Yeah but that's a **** sport. Proper gayboy stuff.

 

proper gayboy stuff? roflmao.. it's probably your favorite fighter's favorite sport fool

 

I have to agree with the other post, American Football is just Rugby with padding, I enjoy playing the video games and have watched a bit of it but its really not all that great, but then again I don't really like "English Football" and I'm from England, so I guess I'm not really a good judge on these things. Once you watch two men beat the **** out of each other its hard to go back to a bunch of over-paid dickheads rolling around on the floor pretending their leg has just been broken as a member of the other team brushes past him.

 

The point he was making is that athletes in the US weighing less than 160lbs generally won't have a career in one of the bigger, scholarship backed, sports. Despite this, the lower divisions are not exactly dominated by US boxers, so it shouldn't be expected that the HW category would necessarily be any more dominated by US fighters than the lower divisions if the incentives to pursue boxing improved.

Regarding globalisation, US fighters probably have a lot more competition from certain countries now than they did 50 years ago. Fighters everywhere can get better training, better sparring, and not to mention the huge impact that the electronic age has had...there are enormous archives of training and fight footage which is available at the fingertips of almost anyone anywhere in the world.

Things have changed, the balance has shifted. Who's to say that any of the basketball players you listed wouldn't turn out to be like Michael Grant or Audley Harrison? Having what appears to be the physical tools does not equal automatic champion. I'm sure the US would do better at HW if boxing was more popular, that goes without saying, but how much better is just pure speculation - and I don't think it would be as much better as some folk might hope. Don't forget, boxing is rarely the most popular sport in any country, not counting a few exceptions, so the same arguments could be applied to almost everyone elses talent pool being drained.

 

America produces great athletic specimens, which, in my opinion, are only second to Europe and Cuba. But boxing is not a prominent sport in America and many athletes find themselves in more popular, lucrative sports.

 

american athletes who fail in their sports can always fall back on section 8, working babies mommas and the prison to work program.

 

didn't you just post that?

 

Euro-level athletes dominate the sport and will increasingly dominate in coming years. American athletes will, however, make good journeymen and gatekeepers for upcoming European prospects.

 

I played rugby for 3 years, without 'suits':good. A proper contact sport.

 

Roberto Duran is a fan of it?

 

no and these weights have never been dominated by americans either. but 3 of the 5 greatest middleweights of the last 30 years were american. the other two are a jamaican and a congolese. america has always had a foothold in these divisions in the form of one fighter or another.

but obviously not apparent now. eastern europe's most capable technician of all time retired a decade ago. thailand has produced far more advanced technicians than all of europe combined.

uh, riddick bowe? he would have schooled lennox lewis and would wipe his ass with the likes that run the division right now. he was far far far more skilled than any of them.