Is America Eliminated from the HW scene?

No!!!

 

What about this guy? 6'8" 250lb 84" reach? Why did he never make it in top 10?

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cos he's a great ice-hockey player

 

But over 2 billion people play cricket world wide!.... NFL only in the USA ??

 

Not every nation can be so manly:nono

 

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It's pretty simple baseball, basketball and NFL are signing talent younger and younger which is drying up the pool in the US , I have a friend who was signed by Boston on a 7 yr contract for baseball at 16 a big somoan boy, this is happening to all sports..blame the managers/agents

 

Most of the soccer players in the schools are either girls or Latinos.
Big boys indeed are mostly tight to football but guess what ...
big boys (HW size) have no success in soccer so don't blame soccer mums.

How many NFL players is active in the sport - a 2000 for 260 mln society?

The problem is that big boys who were hoping to become NFL stars
are mostly ending up in front of 60 inch TV with a couple o 6packs
a few buckets of china food and are complaining about their sorry life
while smoking pots ... weak and sick society this is the problem.

 

James Toney has LowT. A legitimate reason for being prescribed anabolic steroids. If he uses them and competes he should be DQd, but he aint cheating if he's only bringing his level to normal.

And PS......I'm not real big on JLOT....I think hes a loudmouth buffoon.:deal

 

the USA is still probably in the top 3 countries at producing heavyweights

 

thats true but they end up highest in top 20-50, at least one US
boxer per year reach top 10 but they are bounced back really fast.

So the number is fine, while they aren't as much talented to make any
permanent noise ... I doubt that incorporating football or hockey
players would change anything. The problem is a lack of basics
as the good amateur boxing programs starting from high school.

 

Rugby League my friend, we dont use Armor and take breaks

 

i believe America's problem is not the something has changed, but it is that nothing has changed.
People are bigger now, and we are seeing more athleticism in the really big heavyweights. In America, if an 11 year old is athletic and really tall, he will most likely go into basketball or american football he may not get further than high school level, but is unlikely to ever consider boxing.
The same child in Ukraine is unlikely to take up basketball, as that is not popular there, so is more likely to take up boxing instead.
In the past this wasnt as much of an issue as the top boxers were not as big.
The majority of America's top hws historically are around 5'10-6'3.
Now globally a lot of the top boxers are at least 6'3 often much taller, but the USAs are mostly still around 6'2.

Size isn't everything, but if it wasnt important we wouldn't have weight divisions.

Very few countries are good at both heavyweight boxing and basketball. The best basketball nations are USA, spain, argentina, greece, lithuania, turkey, italy, serbia, australia. These countries are not good at hw boxing as their big guys are more likely to go to basketball.

Ukraine and Britain are not good at basketball, and if you look at heavyweights from those countries you will see there are plenty of very tall boxers.
Ukraine; wlad, vitali, dimitrenko, bydenko, mazikin, Zavorotnyi, karpenko are all at least 6'4, the top 3 there are around 6'7

UK; Fury, Price, towers, dallas, cornish all at least 6'6 and there are very few highly ranked brits under 6'3


The USA however is different, the majority of the best are smaller, there are exceptions but very few 6'5 plus hws are rising to the top in america like they are in countries that are not good at basketball.

 

Boxing was, is and alway will be a sport for the poor. You rarely see anyone from a middle class or an upper-middle class background go into boxing. For the middle class, it's team sports and they are rarely going to be career-driven. For the children of the wealthy, it's golf, tennis, polo, rowing, etc.

Very few Americans can understand the grinding poverty of communism or the third world. If Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe hadn't gone communist, the US wouldn't have dominated as much as they did during the 20th century.

When China and Cuba finally allow professional sports, watch out...

 

There are currently twelve, yes twelve, professional heavyweight boxers from Ukraine. That isn't even enough for one team roster in basketball, and there are thirteen professional teams in Ukraine alone. And yet you think all the big kids over there are lining up to be boxers so they can get their faces smashed in? Um, yeah, I don't think so.