Is the era of elite eastern European boxers coming to an end?

[defjaam]

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[treelo]

why do people seem to think basketball players would be good at boxing, just because they are tall?

never ever understood the logic at all, ever seen one of them try and throw a punch, ive seen girls with better technique with no training

 

[defjaam]

why do people seem to think basketball players would be good at boxing, just because they are tall?

never ever understood the logic at all, ever seen one of them try and throw a punch, ive seen girls with better technique with no training

I was already wondering what the advantage with such a height would be. Probably more of a disadvantage lol

I have this image of Eastern euro fighters like Daniel Dubois or Anthony Joshua flooring Jokic and Vucevic with an overhand right. Even an Eastern euro fighter from Africa like Dereck Chisora would overwork them with his brawling style.

 

[treelo]

I was already wondering what the advantage with such a height would be. Probably more of a disadvantage lol

I have this image of Eastern euro fighters like Daniel Dubois or Anthony Joshua flooring Jokic and Vucevic with an overhand right. Even an Eastern euro fighter from Africa like Dereck Chisora would overwork them with his brawling style.

its really odd and i think its an American thought process, they also think American Football players would be good as well because they are "athletes", ell they may be good in the Olympics at running but not fighting, that takes more than just genetics and athleticism

 

[moosaev]

why do people seem to think basketball players would be good at boxing, just because they are tall?

never ever understood the logic at all, ever seen one of them try and throw a punch, ive seen girls with better technique with no training

Americans (and i say this as an American) have a weird theory that America has a special class of athletes because all the major league sports are dominated by Americans. It's pretty bizarre that they don't realize that other nationalities aren't dominating the NBA or NFL because those leagues are geographically concentrated in the US, other nationalities don't have the exposure or resources to be properly developed to get into the pipeline, it's not because they aren't great athletes. Look what happened as soon as the NBA became global,...you had guys like Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, etc. dominating the league. Personally the best athletes i've ever seen have been west african and afro-carribeans, but also eastern europeans (balkan region especially) and caucaus region people have phenomenal athletes. African americans have great athletes as well but nothing special or above the other mentioned groups. There are amazing athletes across the entire globe.