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

[jehoshaphat]

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.

Bro, I have to strongly disagree with you about the size and athleticism. I competed/trained for 17 years and had been a coach/trainer for 20 and I know for certain that size and athleticism are two of the best attributes in the ring. They don't mean everything but they mean a lot and the same goes with heart. People in the other thread were excusing Duran for his losses to the other greats because lack of size. What are you going by saying Lebron would have been a bum? We don't know a man's heart. There are basketball and football players who have the heart of a fighter. Some may have a heart better suited for fighting than a team sport. We just don't know who without testing it so its a purely hypothetical thread. Dirrell would be half the fighter he is if he wasn't so athletic and do you really think Michael Grant would have been a title contender if he wasn't so big? There are so many examples of heavyweights who are/were title contenders off sheer size. Sergio Martinez didn't pick up a glove until he was 20 and his freakish athleticism made him one of the best in the era. Can you answer no to this question with a straight face...Would Vitali Klitschko be a better boxer if he had the athleticism of Dirrell? Guys like Mike Tyson and Manny Steward stated this clearly. In an early 90s interview on ESPN Tyson said if Michael Jordan would have grew up boxing he thinks he would have been phenomenal. Manny Steward went so far as to scout for fighters at basketball games. It wasn't because of their heart.