Myth that American leading heavyweights are in other sports-

LoL I knew you'd get overly upset because you're a sensitive little *****. How many times you been foaming out the mouth to constantly reply to people?

It's a crap sport. And obviously that makes me delusional... because the ultimate criteria of what makes a good sport is objective. You're truly sorry.

3000 rugby clubs with a minimum of 18 players each! WOW THat's crazy!!!! I bet there's more football teams/clubs in just Texas than England.

And Rugby and Cricket more popular than Football and Basketball? Are you ****ing kidding me? Cricket is just a more simpler, dumbed-down version of baseball. And Rugby although entertaining doesn't even compare to any major US sport.

Get your head out of your ass.

 

Yes Rugby and cricket are more popular. 1 billion Indians alone prove cricket is bigger than any US sport, ****ing idiot, you insular ****s have no idea. You thinki the US is the beginning and end of this world.

 

I'm only messing. Rugby union or league, NFL, NBA, whatever there maybe some guys who could've been great boxers... Who knows?! What I don't understand is the people in this thread that think that because you are good at one sport, you'd be good at another - It's nonsense. People posting pics of Dwight Howard because he's tall and has big shoulders or Andy Sheridan because he can bench what pro-weightlifters can and still run around for 80 mins non-stop. It doesn't matter.

To make it to the top in sport requires different attributes, especially when comparing team games to individual ones. On top of that boxing is arguably the toughest sport of them all. To think that some guy who is really good at putting balls through a hoop in a non-contact sport, could've been a great boxer is disrespectful to boxers and to the sport we love imo. Like James Toney said; 'You play football, you play basketball... You don't play boxing'.

I'm sure there are some guys around the world playing all sorts of sports who could've been champions. But my guess is nobody could pick em out in a lineup...

 

And what about the 1.5 billion that play basketball in China? You're a pathetic excuse for a human being. Look how much you're getting upset over posts on ESB. And stop repeating the words insular and ****. And stop with the Anti-American generalizations/stereotypes. The only thing clear is you're the one acting like a ****. Basketball is more popular, and basketball/football are still better sports. This is a fact :rofl

By the way. I wonder why Indians love Cricket so much? Take a page out of history before pointing the "World begins and ends with you."

 

But Table Tennis and football is bigger than Basketball in china so how did you come up with those figures? (real football not handball), cricket is religion in India, basketball is not a religion in China, its not even the biggest sport!

 

So a heavyweight division that has not been dominated by americans for lets say 3-4 years or the 4-5 years of lewis's reign means there has to be some kind of euro reason? WTF is your point. The new kids on the block and milli vanilli had a run. The **** are you trying to say? Are you saying that eastern euros are racially superior and just been held out of boxing due to the iron curtain? WTF is your point. The fact that Eddie Chambers and Chris Arreola both fat and out of shape American heavyweights are on top of American "heavyweight" boxing says it all. Our big guys now dont condition themselves and the ones that do...play other sports where it is a **** load of money. You ****** ass eastern euros that dont have the NFL dont understand how huge that **** is over here. Boxing and UFC get the leftovers of our best athletes. Most fighters are just guys from a tough background that started to fight to keep out of trouble. IE almost 99% of all boxers in America. Very few were bred into the sport like a Floyd Mayweather. Thats why you dont have one single dominate fighter below Heavyweight. NOT A ****ING ONE. Explain that. What sport is a 6'4 200 plus pound eastern euro to participate in despite some strong man bull****. It is quite simple. We dont have the same boxing trainers as the past which is the big difference and our guys over 200 pounds are more than likely are not in great shape. You cant name one fighter now at Heavyweight that is in the same shape as Ali, Norton, Holyfield, Tyson, Prime Bowe, Prime Holmes. Even an Old ass George Foreman got a title in the last 10-15 years.

 

No myth. Imagine guys like Ray Lewis, Adrian Petersen, Brian Urlacher, Albert Pujols, Joe Mauer, David Wright, and some of the smaller basketball players growing up boxing. Wayyyy more talent in the Big Three sports.

 

Best post on the topic..why bother.

 

exactly, good post. saved me a shitload of typing. we are lucky to live in a nation that gets a choice in what we do for a living. we don't get involved in a trade based on how good we are at it at the age of 5. it's all about the advantages of choosing one sport over another in the US and there aren't very many advantages in choosing boxing. most of these guys start out doing it simply because they love the sport, which is how it should be.

 

WEll it sure as **** aint the UK

 

Pujols is Dominican man.

 

You can say this til you're blue in the face but people who don't live in the US don't undersatnd it. I have a little cousin who is tough as nails long arms, fast hands and fast feet. He's already being hounded by middle school coaches for football and basketball. For example I tired getting him into boxing and he's even open to it but his mom will say look at Ali he can't even talk and that there's no money in it compared to football and basketball.:-( He's just one of thousands that slip through the cracks to other sports everyday.

 

3000 rugby "clubs"... absolutely hilarious.

Shoot, British soccer south of the Premier League is absolutely atrocious as far as level of talent goes. I doubt that rugby of all things is bottlenecking the flow of British heavyweight hopefuls. You can't even begin to compare weekend warriors mucking around playing grabass to the sports machine in America that preps kids for college football.