Are all the best American Boxers in the NFL and NBA?

[fan johnny]

The best American "Heavyweight Athletes" may in the NBA and NFL, but who's to say they'd be any better than the best fighters already there?

The only guy I remember making a transition into the sport was Ed "To tall" Jones. I saw one of his fights probably his first and he wasn't very good and barely won the decision.

[AdamGB]

If I had to pick one boxing fight or one football game I think I'd probably go with football.

A whole entire season of games versus the 3-4 fights most top guys seem to get in a year?

You'd pick boxing wouldn't you.

When did this turn into a debate about which sport is tougher though?

I thought the topic was is the money in NFL and the NBA taking athletically gifted people away from boxing?

I'm not too sure myself.... I think there a less solid B level fighters now and money is why but I think when you're at the top of a sport it itsn't a lust for money that got you there, there has to be passion for the sport itself. There probably are a number of athletes who would have done very well as boxers but I don't think that it's a big as a lot of people probably think.

[JonesJrMayweather]

No one said football isn't dangerous, but compared to boxing it's less. When was the last time a player was "hit" by another player and killed or paralyzed? It's been a while. Not saying boxer are killed on regular basis.

Yeah troy aikman had a concussion....but he's still making money from broadcasting...I'll take that hit from lavar arrington that ended troy's career over the hits gerald mclellan, muhammed ali, meldtrick taylor, all took any day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9RfJwSkMU8....Id rather be punched than take that, Anquan Boldin had screws and plates put in his face on account of that. When was the last time that happened to a boxer

That's not a fist coming at you that's a BODY coming at you.

I'm not saying boxing isn't dangerous, but football isn't just a "contact sport" it's a COLLISION sport

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C69SNL5IdT4

gimme pads and a helmet any day, vs being hit by a heavyweight... and anquan is still playing..and he's asking for tem million dollars. When was the last time any football player ended up like GMAN? Meldrick taylor? ALI?

[TheDemolitionDan]

I think there may'be a couple of NFL or in the NBA that might make good Heavyweight Boxers or just good Boxers in generally, but it's hard to say. Boxing takes away some great athletes from different sports also so there's a little give and take anyway you slice it.