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"If a corporate sponsor ever grasps the advantages of a well designed grassroots recruiting program using scientific methods for identifying young athletes with power curves well-suited for boxing, putting them with skilled trainers who will customize the training to each athlete's height-weight ratio, and offering living subsidies while training in high school, they will attract some amazing heavyweight prospects from other sports. If they do, look out Cuba and Eastern Europe."
-- U. S. Boxing Coach, Coaching Clinic, Olympic Training Center -- OVERVIEW The dominance of heavyweight boxing is shifting toward the taller and heavier, explosive heavyweights. The pro boxing promoters will gradually wake up. Boxing talent, particularly heavyweight boxing in the U.S., is weak because grassroots recruiting is nonexistent. Major League Baseball put farm clubs in foreign countries and found gifted, untrained naturals. The manager and scout who developed the first baseball farm club said to us, "Since you're recruiting for big heavyweights who are fast and strong and can fight, your recruiting is much easier. After we put the naturals we found with our best pitching instructors, they went on to become stars. We had the backing of the owner, the right location, a scientific culling process which measured pitching speed and natural athletic ability, and great coaches. With that, you can't help but find great talent." He's right. The keys are financial backing, a broad recruiting program, a scientific culling process to identify the George Foremans -- the heavyweights with natural power -- and implementation by good, experienced trainers. The rest is exceptional training and matchmaking. Recruiting in boxing relies exclusively on tournaments. It works because that's all there is. A few promoters compete for the winners of the tournaments. Since the competitive system in the pros is structured so you can pick your opponents, managers and promoters even compete for the losers in an Olympic year. The best heavyweight prospects don't participate in boxing for a number of reasons unrelated to their ability, heart, or chin. Tournament recruiting misses great prospects you'll never even see, or at least you'll never see their true boxing potential. Every boxing coach has seen great prospects playing other sports or who wind up in prison. These are all cases of unrealized boxing potential because some coaches have the teaching skills to make them a boxing champion. LOCATION We have scouted athletes and sports programs in the U.S. and in seventeen foreign countries. We have reviewed sports performance literature revealing inverse correlations of strong sports medicine programs and high achievements of athletes in Olympic events. We have identified U.S. and foreign athletic programs that are fertile for recruiting heavyweight boxing prospects. Just as Kenya is loaded with aerobically gifted runners, there are specific high schools and colleges in certain areas of the U.S. and foreign countries with sport programs with high numbers per capita of large heavyweight athletes who are anaerobically powerful (have exponential power curves), who are very quick (reaction time), aggressive, and have strong chins and very competitive hearts. OUR STRATEGY Great punchers are born, not made. You can see from Sugar Ray Robinson's films of his first amateur fights that he was a born puncher. A 6' 8" Sugar Ray today might have received a basketball scholarship but not made the NBA. Foreman and Tyson, as you can see from their amateur films, were born punchers. Can you imagine discovering a 6' 8" Sugar Ray Robinson who weighed 235-lbs or a 6' 5" Mike Tyson who weighed 265-lbs? Or a brawler like Marciano who was 6' 4" and weighed 260-lbs? The trick is finding them and providing them with a competitive scholarship program, very focused and properly sequenced to maximize the development of boxing skills. The process will be very similar in principal to the testing and evaluation used by baseball to discover and develop the inexperienced naturals they found who had never played baseball. THE PROGRAM A planned sequence of events will reveal those who demonstrate the desired potential. Modern recruiting methods do not consisting entirely of boxing events. They will first reveal the athletes with the desired physical gifts. There are scientific, systematic ways to test power curves and identify the large heavyweights who are quick and born punchers -- those who rapidly develop maximum speed in short punches. We will then test for strong chins and big hearts. Those with specific physical and psychological gifts will receive one to three months of one-on-one training to evaluate their attitude, learning curve, and response to strength, speed, and endurance training. Camcorders and training diaries will document each athlete's improvement and relative progress. RESULTS Over this evaluation period some will develop faster than others and, in some cases, will even exceed our expectations. At that point we will choose the best four to six who show championship potential. We expect to find several at the outset. Their boxing skills will be vigorously tested in competition and developed by excellent trainers before making a firm commitment. Broad recruiting, thorough testing, and an experienced training staff with high selection criteria will implement tested and carefully sequenced programs in well researched geographical areas with high numbers of heavyweight athletes. |
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