Quote Originally Posted by Taeth View Post
Boxing takes way more head trauma than Football which is also very bad, but not like boxing, the rate of people alzheimers and parkinsons is way lower in football.

The thing is that football and basketball have the best recruiting scouts, they take all the athletes in highschool, and what young kid would rather be a boxer that nobody knows instead of a superstar who is on top of the world? Even guys like Mayweather and Pacquiao are just whispers in the wind in the sports world compared to guys like Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, Lebron James, etc.
Exactly. Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali are the most well known in their respective sports, but Jordan is living large with something like a 500 million dollar networth and in good health compared to Ali that's living with Parkinsons.

Not to mentioned the outrageous NBA and NFL contracts. Matthew Stafford the 1st pick in the NFL draft is getting like 42 million guaranteed and he hasn't played 1 down in the NFL.

And paralysis hardly happens in the NFL. It can happen, but I"m willing to bet that there have been more boxing deaths than paralysis in the NFL within the last 10 years. NFL players when they retired have an assortment of injuries, but for boxers like Ali, Hearns, Frazier have serious injuries to their heads and have slur speech or parkinsons or Alzheimers.

It's just more lucrative playing basketball, football, or baseball than being a pro boxer.