Why don't black Americans dominate the top ten heavyweight rankings anymore??

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  1. MaliBua

    MaliBua Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Michael Grant, enuff said:huh:rofl
     
  2. Sidious

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  3. dm29

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  4. itsa huge bitch

    itsa huge bitch Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    ok ill do it..if they all didnt play american football we would have more top 20 heavyweights from america getting ready to fight timor iggy..does that mean if football and rugby wernt so big in europe wed have more heavyweight champions and more middleweight champions..**** off im sick of use yanks use cannot take anything on the chin (no pun intended)
     
  5. Ncc84

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    well, technically chagaev and ibragimov are asian.:good
     
  6. conraddobler

    conraddobler Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    I'm still waiting for someone explain to me how a college linebacker who blew his knee out and took up boxing in his 20's has managed to make a run as a credible heavyweight boxer in a mere two or three years?


    Is Seth Mitchell an extraordinary talent of some kind or a fairly pedestrian former football player with horrible knees that is able to compete in a sport that has godawful competition?
     
  7. dm29

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    In Russia it`s almost impossible to find a boxing gym. There`s almost no pro boxing promoters and the only big boxing events were set up in a last couple of years. So boxing situation in America is still 100 times better then in Russia and other Eastern European countries, and still Russians and Ukrainians fill most of the top ten in HW.
     
  8. boxsensei

    boxsensei Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't know much about Russian sports so please enlighten me? What other sports are there where you can make 10, 20 50, 100million dollars and get huge endorsements. The bottom line is if your a talented african american, growing up you get thrown a football, or a basketball, not a pair of boxing gloves.
     
  9. conraddobler

    conraddobler Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    the guy has completely shot knees and no boxing experience and he's beating up credible heavyweights.

    He was a college linebacker and couldn't hack it anymore in that sport.

    give me a break. Do yourself a favor and watch some of the utterly freakish athletes that play American football and come back and tell me they're just like "rugby players"?


    Is that a joke? Rugby?
     
  10. dm29

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    I bet in Europe there are millions of more talented young men who would kill to become a pro boxer, but never got an opportunity like some talentless hack like Mitchell or whatever his name is, and these guys would KO that bum in 1.
     
  11. Ncc84

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    To make it as a linebacker he is going to have to be really good during his college years, a serious injury ending his college career ends his chance to be drafted.
    Football and boxing are very different sports an injury stopping him from playing one sport does not necessarily stop from him playing another.
    Watching his fights, you can see he isnt a cripple limping around the ring.

    Rocky marciano and sonny liston also didnt take up boxing until their 20s.

    Seth mitchell is still only a prospect, he might not make it as a top ten heavyweight
     
  12. kopejh

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    Population of African Americans

    37,685,848

    Population of Europe

    731,000,000


    There is your answer.
     
  13. elTerrible

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    Well the key aspect of it is that its just the heavyweight division, you cant say america doesnt have top black fighters anymore, we certainly do, we just dont have top heavyweights.....

    so looking at that, the argument that large athletic men are going to other sports that give scholarships seems credible. And its not like its just the linebacker sized guys but any really athletic guys over 200 is going towards football.

    All of the natural atheletes too little to play team sports, america still has them winning in boxing.
     
  14. elTerrible

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    Look at someone like Tyson, an oldschool trainer noticed his natural abilities and snatched him up and got him into boxing, but imagine that same kid now days, what would the odds he gets brought into boxing rather than football? Anyone sees a kid with a build like Tyson had when he was 12-14 is thinking football and not boxing these days
     
  15. kopejh

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    Shouldn't Europe have about 20 Andre Wards and 20 Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s and about 10 currently active ATGs right now given their population?

    why do Europeans like to compare themselves to a community that's about 20 times smaller?
     
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