I'll try to find some names, I recall a couple of commentators making references but can't recall the names off the top of my head. Here's an excerpt from an article displaying American Heavyweight Calvin Brock sharing the same sentiment with another Heavyweight Sultan Ibragimov:
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Where are the American heavyweights?
Brock thinks other sports have taken from the pool of American heavyweight prizefighters.
“It looks like most of the top athletes are playing football, basketball or baseball,” says Brock without hesitation. “I played football and baseball, but I never had a desire to be in a sport outside of boxing. I’ve been in boxing since I was eight-years-old.”
Ibragimov agrees with Brock and has one added suggestion for the lack of American heavyweights: the lack of a strong amateur program in the United States.
“I think the former Soviet fighters have a lot of experience from amateur school, maybe this is a point for us. Of course a lot of American heavyweights don’t have a lot of amateur experience. When I was an amateur I was a cruiserweight. I fought in Olympic games in Atlanta,” Ibragimov says. “I had 200 amateur fights maybe more. I don’t know but close to 170 or 180 wins.”
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And here's a good article about the subject in general. If I can find a name or two I will:
http://www.iol.co.za/?set_id=6&click...0931677C673305 __________________
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