A NON RACIST Observation - The Super Athlete

[fromutome]

I've heard somewhere that the white slave owners breed black slaves to be at their very best? Would that have to do with it maybe?

[Chad C.]

As for collegiate wrestling, you have to think about the numbers. Wrestling is most popular in the middle of the country. It starts in high school for most, if not earlier, and is often only offered in larger or nicer schools. So, we are talking about primarily white areas, in schools that will have a higher concentration of wealth (and sadly, therefore, white students) than average. However, I feel that wrestling seems to have jumped on the MMA train, riding it to greatness. As MMA grows, so does wrestling, especially in Middle America. And as this happens, the percentage of black high school- and collegiate- wrestlers will increase. When this happens, expect to see wrestling begin to become dominated by the same super athletes, who statistically will be MOSTLY black. Just look at the build and athleticism of top white wrestlers in MMA (Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck, Frankie Edgar, Gray Maynard, etc) vs. the few top black wrestlers (Jon Jones, Phil Davis, Rashad Evans).

Great post ... you racist!

I agree with this totally. And I think you can already see an influx in the amount of Black amateur wrestlers. I'm not a huge follower of wrestling but from what I saw this year in the NCAA and the PA HS States there seemed to be more Black wrestlers.

[James Davis]

Try this.. look at sports with a high entry fee (Hockey) versus those with little to no initial cost (basketball) and think about the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of the majority of the people who participate in such sports. Race is an arbitrary variable when you start looking at real factors such as financial access and break down genetic traits into specific speed, height, strength factors. Not all black people are fast but all fast people are fast. There is no need to group people by race especially when the generalization falls apart on an individual level and when we can just choose to look at raw genetic traits.

Exactly. CLASS RULES EVERYTHING ARROUND ME...GOTTA GET THE MONEY...oh wait..think I got it wrong.

And the all fast people are fast statement is on point as well. Are there a lot of elite sprinters of african heritage? sure. However, there are a lot of white guys that compete that can run 100m in under 10 seconds

And more minorities will start to get into mma because it is expanding and the classes are relatively cheap.

[Taylor Culbertson]

6'8, 255lbs, explosive, freakishly long arms. If Lebron had wrestled it would be so scary.

[stlnl]

Combat sports in general are not the same as others. Also if anyone feels as though very athletic people (black or otherwise) are just now competing in MMA, those people are showing thier noobness.

Jones is a very good athlete, but his size for his weight class, and reach, are much more a factor than vertical leaps or 40 times. He also, unlike alot of very good athletes out there, doesnt mind trying to compete at something where he might get punched in the face. ALOT of athletic studs pack it in with combat sports the first time that bell gets rung.

[Taylor Culbertson]

Combat sports in general are not the same as others. Also if anyone feels as though very athletic people (black or otherwise) are just now competing in MMA, those people are showing thier noobness.

Jones is a very good athlete, but his size for his weight class, and reach, are much more a factor than vertical leaps or 40 times. He also, unlike alot of very good athletes out there, doesnt mind trying to compete at something where he might get punched in the face. ALOT of athletic studs pack it in with combat sports the first time that bell gets rung.

Bull shit! Lots of people athletic of not pack it in once they get their bell rung. That being said once there is BIG MONEY in it, the 1 in a million athlete that has it all will end up in MMA and will run the show.

[stlnl]

Bull shit! Lots of people athletic of not pack it in once they get their bell rung. That being said once there is BIG MONEY in it, the 1 in a million athlete that has it all will end up in MMA and will run the show.

By your reasoning, all the super athletes would be golfers and tennis players and boxers since they make the most money........

I also think you have not been in a gym much where people get hit if you have never seen a stud pack it in after bleeding his own blood.

[Taylor Culbertson]

By your reasoning, all the super athletes would be golfers and tennis players and boxers since they make the most money........

I also think you have not been in a gym much where people get hit if you have never seen a stud pack it in after bleeding his own blood.

I am not disagreeing with you that "studs" pack it in after seeing their own blood. I understand that. I am saying that some "studs" don't. And the more money will attract more "studly" men. So if only one out of every one hundred thousand studs can hack it, if the quality of the "stud" improves with money, eventually there will be a swarm of "super studs". Also penis size will increase too.

[stlnl]

Popularity will bring more people, but its not like a thousand future NFL'ers will decide to be MMA fighters instead of playing football. If this was the case, right now they would be trying to box instead of playing football, wouldnt they? Some folks just dont care for fighting, no matter how physically able they are. Combat sports gyms will also never, ever be as common as football/basketball programs (boxing gyms are hard to find, and have never been very common in most parts of the country) and a whole lot of parents (who are the biggest influences on sports for youngsters) are not going to care for thier kid getting hit/choked, again, if money were the driving force in sports participation (its not) Boxing would have alot more of the draw you seem to think MMA is going to have in the future.

[Taylor Culbertson]

Popularity will bring more people, but its not like a thousand future NFL'ers will decide to be MMA fighters instead of playing football. If this was the case, right now they would be trying to box instead of playing football, wouldnt they? Some folks just dont care for fighting, no matter how physically able they are. Combat sports gyms will also never, ever be as common as football/basketball programs (boxing gyms are hard to find, and have never been very common in most parts of the country) and a whole lot of parents (who are the biggest influences on sports for youngsters) are not going to care for thier kid getting hit/choked, again, if money were the driving force in sports participation (its not) Boxing would have alot more of the draw you seem to think MMA is going to have in the future.

Black kids don't have parents.