This is why there are so few world class US heavyweights any more ......

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Apparently this is a guy called Zion Williamson. He is not even a basketball NBA pro yet, though he is being talked up quite a bit.

He is 6'7" and weighs over 20 stone. A bigger guy than Anthony Joshua. Clearly an excellent athlete with superb hand eye coordination.

He is likely to make over $20million a year in the NBA ...... in his first year as a pro! And without getting hit in the face!!

In generations gone by, before the big bucks hit basketball (and before the shameful colour bar in basketball and other US sports), guys like him would have been Fighters.

I'm on no way blaming the guy, not decrying the better opportunities that mainly black, poor athletes get now ...... but this is one of the reasons that the US heavyweight scene is so bare. This will continue now too, unless some freak of nature arises again in America.

Get used to it, I guess.