Monday, September 8, 2008

Are the bigger fighters disappearing from the US?

Alywn Cosgrove emailed me and commented on when he looked at Ring mags top 10 rankings only two American heavyweights were ranked. Only one cruiserweight... What the fuck is going on here? I'll tell you what....


I've talked to my other friends and fellow coaches about this all the time... They're all playing basketball and football!

Look.... Boxing particularly amateur gyms need to do a better job at marketing! Give these kids WHILE they are young a choice of WHAT to do.. Not just to decide football cause that's all they see!

I don't believe in making it hard to find or enter a gym.. by referral, interview any of that shit when it comes to boxing gyms.. The weak will get weeded right away...The diamond in the roughs are the kids wandering around the streets cause they think they don't have anything else to turn too... Team sports aren't for them as they are seen as out casts... OR you the genetically gifted kids who choose football or basket ball cause that's ALL they see!

Boxing needs to be put in their face to get them to look at it.. boxing has what the other sports don't INDIVIDUAL glory... No one to blame for failure and no one to share success with but yourself! This isn't greed.. it';s a challenge and true competitiveness to the fullest with the utmost satisfying hight that YOU did it! Something in you was brought out...that wasn't developed before.. sure you get that out of some team sports but boxing is the truth in this...

BUT with better marketing must be GOOD coaches to develop the future of boxing,, Let me ask you this.. How many potential future heavy weights have been scared out of gyms cause they were pushed to fast to spar? I guarantee you many! How do we know there isn't many big fighters entering boxing gyms? How do we know they aren't being pushed out as fast as they are entering cause of the lack of quality coaching?!

It comes back to systems and progression... The foreign countries have this set up where the fighter is brought through the system while being developed...There is trust AND honor in their pro and amateur boxing programs...

We don't have that here and we don't have it in the kids faces to give them a choice to be our future heavyweights...

The more trust, the more word of mouth which is the best marketing.... the more full the gyms will be...with numbers comes the more potential that a future heavyweight will be born from a good coaches system... A good system doesn't mean shit without numbers/bodies...The more fighters that succeed through this system the more kids that see and hear about this will want to do it...The future is born here in my opinion....

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