What kind of heavyweight would Lebron James have been '''

[Jerry Rice]

What kind of heavyweight would Lebron James have been?

The kind who gets knocked out on a regular basis.

Lol, why do you say that.

[Violent Demise]

What kind of heavyweight would Lebron James have been?

The kind who gets knocked out on a regular basis.

Lol, why do you say that.

Big difference between boxing and basketball.

[jehoshaphat]

What kind of heavyweight would Lebron James have been?

The kind who gets knocked out on a regular basis.

Lol, why do you say that.

Big difference between boxing and basketball.

I agree but I'm sure Jerry Rice is assuming that Lebron didn't start today. You'd have to imagine if he chose boxing over basketball at some point in childhood. Heck, Wilder started boxing at 20 and he was nothing more than a below average basketball player. And he is smaller and much less athletic than Lebron so Lebron would have a much greater pool of talent to start with. Manny Steward even said all the great heavyweights in America were in basketball.

[Spicoli]

Mount Goofi Whitaker...minus the humility and charm

[jehoshaphat]

Mount Goofi Whitaker...minus the humility and charm

Thats probably the exact opposite of what Lebron James resembles. Mount Whitaker was size only. He was clumsy, no agility, uncoordinated, etc. Lebron James has the all the athletic tools in nimbleness, agility, coordination, strength, speed, quickness, great reflexes. Whitaker basically had none of that.

[Vendettos]

A horizontal one.

[FinitoElDinamita]

He would have been a bum. Being big and athletic dont mean shit inside the ring. To be a successful fighter, you have to be cut from a different cloth and it requires so much more than just physical stature..

Most great fighters are not normal in the head and pro basketball players and footballers aint got shit on them.

That's why they say one can play basketball and football, but they can't play Boxing..

Regardless of how big Lebron may be, how do we know how he'll react to being punched? He could be a total pussy with no heart.

Showing heart during a basketball game and showing heart inside the ring are totally different.

[jehoshaphat]

They say he is actually 6'9" he grew an inch early on while being in the league and I think his weight is more like 265. But to your point I use to think the same about NBA players. Our best heavyweight athletes are in the NBA and NFL. The heavyweight world would have to hope he had no chin although with his size Wladimir learned how to get around that. Lebron is bigger than the Klitschkos and as athletic as Dirrell. The dude is seriously a freak of nature in the athletic department. He has the speed of a guy 6 feet tall and the body strength of a guy 7 feet tall. He guards both guys on the court at their own game and does very well as though he were their size. Of course we'll never find out but it would have been nice if he skipped basketball and football instead of Wilder and Mitchell. Of course Mitchell was injured out and was a good football player but he was nothing special and has gotten to the point of a C level fighter and Wilder was below average in basketball and he too has shown that on size/strength alone he got to C level at least. But boxing will never get the best heavyweights because the cards are so stacked against the sport as those guys will always go the quicker financial route of football or basketball where you become an instant millionaire after 1 to 4 years of free college. But if Lebron grew up boxing it seems he would have been something never before seen in the sport.