Why do people think any good NBA/NFL athlete can beat the Klit bros?

[DaxxKahn]

I am not sure what thread you are referring to but I have no idea why any of these athletes from other sports assume that because they are good at BBall, Baseball, football etc it meas they will be good at Boxing...Big difference...You are not getting rest between plays,,,no time on bench...You have to fight 3 minutes of every round....You have punches coming to your face...from men who have trained to do nothing but KO you.....Sure hits on the field from a 300lb linebacker hurt but like I said you don't always get hit that hard you get knocked down....Elbows from a BBall player are not like uppercuts from a fighter....Baseball players are the least likely to be able to adjust....

the thought is crazy...How many have tried? how many have succeeded? You would think they learn from history...OR are they all just that cocky?

[El Kabong]

Anyone here thinks that Chamberlain could have beaten Ali? How about if Chamberlain took up boxing as a youngster and stuck to it? Would he still be able to beat a prime ALi? I really wished that Ali would have taken this fight and fought Chamberlain. It would have put any bullshit notion that some great NBA athlete can beat a prime HW champion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Xjt-1Zvwo

....I think also MLB Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Gibson and NFL Hall of Fame Running Back Jim Brown were offered deals to box as well.

Both Big Bob and James were intemidating as hell.....but in a boxing ring they would be very awkward. Now sure if they trained their entire lifes in boxing sure they may have been good but hell it's all "if if if if"


And back then, I think Bill Russle would have done VERY well in boxing just because his attitude was more suited for it

God.in.my.corner.....on the money side of things perhaps you're right. If I saw the NBA or NFL or MLB in my future instead of getting punched in the head it's an easy call (well between the NFL and boxing it's a little tougher but the money could be better). But if you think that everyone that was any good at boxing left the gym to go play basketball then you're freaking crazy. There is a lack of depth in boxing right now, surely this is true, but that must also mean that plenty more people are thinking "This could be easy to dominate" and perhaps a few of them will act on it. Deontay Wilder has and hell he may become a very good fighter for us.

[generalbulldog]

If it was all about athleticism then Tye Fields would be a champ right now. Ex NBA player, huge and studly, but he's everyone's whipping boy in a boxing ring.

...Tye Fields isn't athletic, he's just a big tall white dude. There is a difference between being able to play a sport and "being athletic".

Michael Vick is athletic but he's shit for a QB

Larry Bird was an awesome basketball player but he wasn't as athletic as most of the guys in the league.

Wlad is athletic, he moves extremely well for a big guy. He's very agile and quick for a big guy. Tye Fields is just a big dude who played college ball at freaking San Diego State!!! There's a big reason why he doesn't play in the NBA, I'm guessing he's not very athletic.........or good at basketball, which is why he would play at San Diego State.

Ain't this the truth. Michael Vick is arguably the most athletic QB in the NFL, but yet no unbiased NFL fan would rather have him over let's say Drew Brees, Tom Brady, or Peyton Manning. And Michael Vick has been playing football since he was a youngster so 1 can't use the excuse he just started playing. The truth of the matter is that Vick lacks those necessary qualities to be a great NFL qb, like accuracy, reading defenses, leadership, ability to adjust and adapt, etc.

It's just ridiculous that people seems to think just because a guy is athletic overall that this athlete can be really great in another sport if they took it up when they are young.

Of course these are the same people that with their logic they think some really athletic NFL/NBA star can be better than Wayne Gretzky, Roger Federer, Diego Maradona, Lance Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, if they took up those sports at a young age and focused on it, because those NFL/NBA stars are so athletic overall than those legends in other sports.

[sumkalambay]

it works both ways. i can't ever envision the klitschko bros being good basketball players with their relatively short limbs and oafish coordination.