Completely different sports with different skillsets. Just because someone is good at the skills involved in say basketball doesn't mean they could turn their hand to any other sport! Normally when someone is awesome at a sport, that is it they are just naturally gifted at that sport and then they have dedicated themselves to that sport and made themselves world class. Same thing goes for the Klits, they are very good boxers and very good athletes but could they shoot hoops? Probably not. Could a world class basketball player have thrown a great jab, a great left hook, a wonderful straight right hand? Could they follow a boxing game plan with someone trying to basically trying to render them incapable of being able to stand up anymore? I doubt it!
Wayne Rooney is a great athlete over here, he is probably the best British footballer right now. He also did boxing from an early age, but when it came to making a choice he just couldn't cut it as a boxer and made his choice based on that and chose football. He may have won a few fights in early stages, but had he made it even to televised boxing he would have been seriously beaten up. Fact.
Athleticism isn't enough, boxing requires great mentality just like other sports but it is a different mentality just like golf and swimming require different mindsets!
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