Boxers who were serious HS/college athletes in other sports?

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  1. mrkoolkevin

    mrkoolkevin Never wrestle with pigs or argue with fools Full Member

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    Guys who came to boxing after their serious HS/college athletic careers in other sports ran their course.

    Not sure what happened to my original thread w/ the same name (mods??) but a few of the names mentioned were:

    James Toney
    Terry Norris
    Deontay Wilder
    Tim Witherspoon
    Curtis Cokes
    Tyrell Biggs
    Al Cole
    Bryant Jennings
    Bonecrusher Smith
    Buster Douglas
    Seth Mitchell
    Ross Purity
    Michael Grant
    Chazz Witherspoon
    Derrick Jefferson

    Any others? Few were world beaters but they had fairly impressive careers and went very far in the sport considering that most picked up boxing as young adults. Makes you wonder what could have been if other athletes had tried boxing instead of basketball or football, etc.
     
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  2. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Matthew Macklin was a pretty good hurler
    Sergio Martinez was a pro soccer player
     
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  3. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Curtis woodhouse pro footballer
     
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  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Sergio Martinez was an excellent cyclist, too.

    The list is long on this topic.
     
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  5. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Paul Berlenbach was a champion wrestler before he started boxing.
     
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  6. Longhhorn71

    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Ken Norton was very good in football and track in high school, before he joined the Marines.
     
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  7. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    Didn't Marciano play football in high school?

    Anthony Joshua played a lot of sports before going into boxing.
     
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  8. foreman&dempsey

    foreman&dempsey Boxing Addict banned

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    Martinez never was a great player of football(you north american people call it absurdly soccer).he played in a humble local team of Argentina
     
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  9. foreman&dempsey

    foreman&dempsey Boxing Addict banned

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    Holmes was a good wrestler,foreman and lewis played to american football,vitali was a very good kick boxer,and johnthomas1 was a nerd victim of bullying
     
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  10. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Im Irish actually, we also call it soccer
     
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  11. foreman&dempsey

    foreman&dempsey Boxing Addict banned

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    I dont know why. The english people call it football
     
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  12. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    Its because we also have a game we refer to as football so soccer gets called soccer
     
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  13. foreman&dempsey

    foreman&dempsey Boxing Addict banned

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    Mm ok,in spain we say american football and football for the "soccer"
     
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  14. gmurphy

    gmurphy Land of the corrupt, home of the robbery! banned Full Member

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    We call Gaelic football in Ireland just football so we call soccer soccer
     
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  15. Longhhorn71

    Longhhorn71 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think The Rock played some catcher in baseball.
     
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