Is the lack of gyms and black areas the reason why you don't have as many black heavy weights

[The G.O.D II]

Yeah but it's way harder to get into the NFL or NBA that it is into boxing. Basically it's a matter of you having a desire, showing up at the gym and possibly finding somebody that's willing to train you. Have a natural talent for fighting helps of course but you have to be in the top 1% to even have a chance to get in the NBA or NFL. I'm noticing in a lot of black areas you don't have as many gyms as you may have had in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Of course I could be wrong

Not really. You can toll away in boxing for 10-15 years before you get big money. In basketball you can earn 10 mil by 21. Plus less training, lower risk of getting hurt

 

[FaTaL]

Is the lack of gyms in Black areas the reason why you don't have as many black heavy weights these days? Or is it the promotion of other sports like football and basketball?

What's the deal here?

Most boxers don’t lift

Boxing simply isn’t that popular anymore if you can play basketball or football

 

[Roid Jones]

Now this is exactly what I was thinking. People have seen how Muhammad Ali turned out and they know what box you can do to you. I think black people rather become rappers today then be boxers like they might have tried to become years ago.

It still comes back to why would you want to box when there are other avenues to have a long career, become rich and keep your faculties intact? Also, boxing is not as popular as it once was

 

[Big Boss]

If you're 6'3, 200lbs., athletic and black, you'll have everybody and their father pushing you to play football. Boxing isn't the road to riches like it used to be.

And basketball

 

[Off the Onion]

It still comes back to why would you want to box when there are other avenues to have a long career, become rich and keep your faculties intact? Also, boxing is not as popular as it once was

About brothers coming out of prison? I think boxing will be more attractive to them since you have to go through the university route usually to play basketball or football. Why are more guys coming out of prison and boxing in the cruiser and heavyweight divisions?

 

[Roid Jones]

About brothers coming out of prison? I think boxing will be more attractive to them since you have to go through the university route usually to play basketball or football. Why are more guys coming out of prison and boxing in the cruiser and heavyweight divisions?

You're all over the place, what question are you actually trying to ask? because the one in the thread title has been answered. ''Why are more guys coming out of prison and boxing in the cruiser and heavyweight divisions?'' Is this a new question?

 

[Off the Onion]

You're all over the place, what question are you actually trying to ask? because the one in the thread title has been answered. ''Why are more guys coming out of prison and boxing in the cruiser and heavyweight divisions?'' Is this a new question?

A related question yes

 

[MJ Truth]

Boxing doesn't provide scholarships like these other sports do. Could also be that they don't have someone to look up to...the rivalries between Ali, Fraizer and Foreman etc in the 70s inspired many to start boxing.

Ding, ding, ding.

If you don't "make it" as a basketball player professionally, at the very least if you're just pretty good you can get a free education at a D2 or D3 school. If you start boxing at eight but don't end up being good enough to earn money from it as a professional, the skill isn't as transferrable.

 

[Cheech&Chong]

football is snatching up all the bigger kids early

 

[staticshock]

There are boxing gyms in black areas in Atlanta, but they’re mainly attended by folks trying to get in shape & not make boxing a career.


If I wasn’t 30 I’d make a career

 

[H.I.M.]

The rise in avg salaries (and popularity) in two sports (NBA & NFL) that have exclusively Heavyweight sized athletes, starting in the 80's/90's, directly correlate with the sudden drop off in quality in American Heavyweight prospects from the pro-level, to the amateurs from the 90's on up.

There was a time in American sports where Heavyweight contenders who didn't even have a title, would make more money than star players in the NBA & NFL pre-80's and the Heavyweight champion was far and away the highest paid athlete on the earth. Starting in the 90's, the NBA & NFL caught up in avg salaries, and eventually surpassed boxing...as the Heavyweight division slowly declined in quality, the general public's interest in the sport as a whole started to wane...all & all, there's just no financial incentive for gifted Heavyweight sized athletes to go into boxing and the mainstream attention on the sport isn't what it used to be....which is why the division looks the way it looks today and for the past 15 years

 

[Mowgli]

nikkas don't like paying them monthly fees. fukks the point of opening a gym if you don't have a side business to offset all the money you losing

 

[Big Boss]

The rise in avg salaries (and popularity) in two sports (NBA & NFL) that have exclusively Heavyweight sized athletes, starting in the 80's/90's, directly correlate with the sudden drop off in quality in American Heavyweight prospects from the pro-level, to the amateurs from the 90's on up.

There was a time in American sports where Heavyweight contenders who didn't even have a title, would make more money than star players in the NBA & NFL pre-80's and the Heavyweight champion was far and away the highest paid athlete on the earth. Starting in the 90's, the NBA & NFL caught up in avg salaries, and eventually surpassed boxing...as the Heavyweight division slowly declined in quality, the general public's interest in the sport as a whole started to wane...all & all, there's just no financial incentive for gifted Heavyweight sized athletes to go into boxing and the mainstream attention on the sport isn't what it used to be....which is why the division looks the way it looks today and for the past 15 years

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Lack of gyms is not the problem...

It simply makes no sense for a black man over 6 foot 220 plus and athletic to pick boxing over MLB, NBA or NFL...

My son is 16 years old, 6 foot and 180 pounds...Considering my genetics he should easily top out at around 6'4 230 by the age of 21...

He trains with me 6 days a week and despite how much we love boxing I am always pushing him towards basketball and baseball...Simply put those sports offer more money, less behind the scenes fukkery and they are a lot healthier than getting punched in the head...He does want to compete for NY golden gloves which I'm for but his mothers not...I kinda fukked up promising her I'm just training him from a discipline standpoint and he would never compete...

 

[NvrCMyNut]

I hear yall talking about the NFL but UK got rugby so whats the difference?
media spotlight ain't on boxing anymore because it's audience is almost entirely hispanic(blacks don't buy ppv)