Jason Whitlock: "The civil-rights movement and integration killed boxing"

[beenKOed]

Amateur boxing has some problems in the US and they should be fixed but I think some of you are beating the wrong horse. It's not that the US has fallen on it's face, which it has, it's the fact that everyone else is doing a much better job than we are. The US should take a look at what other countries are doing and improve on that, which is what they did to us. Take a look at programs around the world and use what we can from them.

[TigerFan]

I didn't read the article...I figured it was typical Whitlock nonsense. If you've read one of his articles who have pretty much read them all.

Anyway, Soviet boxing legend Igor Vysotsky warned America a few years ago about neglecting our Amateur program.

Igor Vysotsky: I’ll tell the Americans one thing. It doesn’t pay to forget about amateur boxing, because otherwise, in the near future there won’t be a single world champ from the U.S.

[greynotsoold]

He makes some valid points, though I don't know if his reasoning is sound. The way boxing is today, and the way it has been for many years, a few guys make an absolute mountain of money. A few guys make a living, and everybody else , even pros, box around the day job that pays the bills. There is no money in live gates, and television shows are rare and generally feature the show-case fighter and his victim. not a ton of room for up and comers.
I've read that the live gates declined because of the TV boom in the post WWII years, but I have also read that it was because white people quit going to the fights as fewer and fewer Irish, Italian, and Slavic kids (in the US) took up boxing. I don't know...I do know that, at the Olympic Auditorium, a traditional hotbed of boxing, they couldn't make mony off of live gates the last time they tried. I think that is because even rabid Hispanic fans will only show up to see mismatches so many times. Make good fights and people will come.
I think that the silly slap-fight style of amateur boxing and the asinine scoring have really hurt amateur boxing. I know I lost interest years ago. Pro boxing is not much different, not any more, not really, and I guess that it is really a reflection of people that don't understand what boxing is about, not in an actual sense, and not, especially, in a spiritual sense.

[amat]

Whitlock: The root of Gabby's hair critics

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Whitlock is just a shit stirrer and a race debater. He honestly is completely ridiculous and should never be taken seriously. He sucks.

[Hulk]

This article makes some sense about potential inner city black kids turning to other sports as a way out compared to boxing.

Outside of that its a fat "scrub" calling a pretty good athlete and boxer in Breazzelle, a "Great big dope".