Native American Heavyweights...

Joe Louis was part native American. Tommy Morrison was half native American. These two were pretty cut at their best.

 

Thanks for pronouncing my name right man. :thumbsup When you gonna be cleared to box? You still want to come to Bozo to do some training in the summer?

 

Probably not until July, your damn right I do, gotta bust your ass for beating on my buddy. I was even thinking about asking Bob for my passbook to maybe get some fights in.

 

John Sargeant,
Joe Hipp,
Arthur Cook.....

all similar , yes they are a bit sloth like and i too don't truly understand , i think maybee its dietary............

 

lenox lewis is of jamacian back ground, an i have meet many jamacian that tell me jamacian have indian blood in them, also cris areloa is mexican who are mixed with native blood, i sure in all his tattoos, you could see somthing showing it

 

joe hipp wasnt an adonis.....but he was a pretty good heavyweight for a while

 

what about that Big Indian from 48 hours one of the guys trying to kill eddie murphy he looked Solid. Or the big Indian from One Flew Over The Cuckos Nest. Those were big ass indians who werent fat.:yep Seriously though ive been some Tall indians but they were on the slender side or they were Heavy set. John Sargent wasnt a bad heavy at first he had wins over yuri vaulin,Ross purity,but he was a tubbo.

 

This thread's about Native American heavyweights, but it puts me in mind of an almost surreal incident.

Back in the early '70s, I had an amateur boxing team in Queens with trainer Tommy Gallagher. All the kids were locals.

One day -- outta the blue -- a powerfully-built fearsome looking Apache Indian middleweight (teardrop tat under his eye) showed up wanting to train. It was like a Martian landed.

He never spoke or changed expression in a gym fulla loud NY street kids. The suspicion was: he was Cochise there to exact revenge.

A busy slugger, he trained religiously, but never brought that ferocity to the Golden Gloves, and lost in the semi-final, vanishing after the match, as suddenly as he'd appeared, like a character in the Twilight Zone.

 

Cherokee

There are very few full-blooded Native Americans out there. To get government recognition as being such for census purposes, you only need to be 1/8th Native American, so I don't think Hill is removed from the discussion.

George Tadoohahnippah is full blooded Comanche and is very fit, albeit not a heavyweight.

Anyway, it probably has more to do with childhood diet than genetics. People who live on reservations generally are very poor, and as I'm sure you know, the poor in America don't go unfed, they just eat cheap, unhealthy food. Tough to take the fat off later in life once you've already put it on as a child.