where are the dominant,black, heavyweights in boxing??

[call_me_step_daddy]

and what does this say about us in general? because to me, it seems like boxing has always kinda correlated with the black struggle in America..from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis to ALI on down to Tyson..we had to fight to get to where we are now, and now that we've "made it" to an extent, it looks like we've became somewhat softer and not as intimidating as a whole..

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[sm0ke]

playing football

 

[King Jove]

we're playing basketball and football

 

[Majestic Pape]

You can see them every Sunday with NFL Ticket.

 

[Mandizi]

It seemed like the run died with Tyson, Holifield, and Lennox. I couldn't even tell you who the heavyweight boxing champ is right now.

 

[Loose]

Oh so now other sports deter our athletes

 

[DalMem]

playing football

This

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[call_me_step_daddy]

weren't we playing football and basketball during those years of us having a heavyweight champ also?



those "football & basketball" answers made no sense

 

[Kings County]

we're playing basketball and football

 

[yoyoyo1]

It seemed like the run died with Tyson, Holifield, and Lennox. I couldn't even tell you who the heavyweight boxing champ is right now.

lying and you know it.

 

[King Jove]

the appeal of heavyweight boxing is dead to african americans in this new generation.

kids born in the 90's don't remember or care about joe luis.

all these kids with heavyweight physiques are looking to the nfl and nba more than ever.

 

[Mandizi]

lying and you know it.

Klitscho?

 

[DalMem]

the appeal of heavyweight boxing is dead to african americans in this new generation.

kids born in the 80's don't remember or care about joe luis.

all these kids with heavyweight physiques are looking to the nfl and nba more than ever.

Exactly, just like the new generation don't play baseball like the old generation.

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[Field Marshall Bradley]

You drop some free boxing gyms in every hood across the USA and the sport of boxing would be completely blacked out(can't forget PR and Mexico) by 2016.

When the boxing gyms started closing across the country, nikkas lost interest.

Football and basketball is free or cheap so that's what nikkas gon gravitate too.

 

[old soul]

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