I had an interesting convo with my older brother and he mentioned a quote that Bob Arum used a few years back saying something like, "the best American heavyweights are in the NFL."

I'm thinking it's not just the heavyweights but other weight classes too. There's no real incentives getting your head bashed when you can make more money in another sport like the NFL, NBA,that's just less brutal, although American football can at times be brutal, but not like boxing. And most of the black inner city kids wants to be the next Lebron James or Vince Young than being the next Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson.

Sugar Ray Robinson has been on record to say that he hates boxing and considered it to be a barbaric sport, and he did it for the money, because it was easy for him. My brother and I was thinking that if SRR had lived in this era he would probably be a corner back in the NFL with his speed and athleticism and not a professional prize fighter.

Your thoughts?