Can the Indian continent produce a world champ?

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yeah i mean they are good at sports they try at and develop skills at(cricket, archery etc). the country as a whole does not stress athletics. its a fight just to be middle class there. so academics are stressed. which is why they come to the USA or other countries and dominate academically. they have excellent work ethics.

 

Development of prizefighters and poverty go hand in hand.

 

Which is why you'll see boxing only grow in India and China.

 

Excellent point. Academic/intellectual achievements are more highly regarded than athletic ones.

 

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BTW, is there a completely Chinese (living and training there) champion of the world right now?:think

 

No reason they can't. With over a billion people, I'm sure there are plenty of good athletes. Only issues are that sports generally aren't as popular there as they are in most of the rest of the world, and that boxing is REALLY far down the totem pole in terms of their sports preferences. But if India suddenly decided it wanted to become a nation of athletes, I'm sure they could have dominant athletes in every sport.

 

No. A few amateur champs, but no pro champs. One Chinese fighter has fought for a title (can't remember his name, but he fought Daisuke Naito about a year back). There are a couple of guys in their amateur program who might be able to win titles as pros, if the government will let them go pro. Supposedly they were going to let Zou Shiming go pro after the last Olympics, but I guess they changed their minds. That guy should be able to win a title at 105, even if his style is very amateurish.

 

Except that punching people is pretty damn taboo in India's two biggest religions. The Thais seem to have reconciled prizefighting with the teachings of Buddha, but I've still never even heard of a Hindi boxer. And pretty much every fighter I've heard of from the subcontinent is either Muslim or Sikh.

 

Boxing is growing in China. Have not heard much from India at all.

 

I'm not sure that the caste system is relevant in the case of boxing.

The potential demographic is certainly there. India is industrialising with a corresponding growth in urban working class,from which boxing has traditionally recruited from.

 

Just imagine if they put as much effort into training in boxing:

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As an indian, let me disagree. Martial arts was suppressed by the british, but the old values, attitudes, and pride of the warrior class is definitely still there. If anything prizefighting is more reconciliable with Hinduism than Buddhism.

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Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't the Rajput a sect of Indian (Hindi) Warriors?