Ringstars

Ringstars Amateur Boxing Club
A Tax Exempt Corporation Registered in Nevada

AN AMATEUR SUPER HEAVYWEIGHT FARM PROGRAM
MODELED AFTER SUCCESSES IN OTHER SPORTS

PRECEDENTS FOR SUCCESS

STRONG PRECEDENTS IN OTHER SPORTS

No one in boxing has ever felt they needed to to build a farm system even though the colleges and universities don't serve as a farm system for boxing like they do for other pro sports.

Boxing promoters do need to get the best pro prospects in boxing. If they are able to do that without spending any money developing at the grass roots level by simply recruiting the winners of the U.S. National and world amateur tournaments, why look any further? The amateur program at the national and internationl level serves quite well as the promoters' farm system. Without any investment, the promoters can depend on it to reveal the best pro prospects in the system.

Our program is based upon the proposition that the best heavyweight prospects don't go into the amateur system.

This will be the first niche farm system developed to find and develop heavyweights that would not otherwise go into boxing. The great part about being the first in anything is that there is no competition.

Other sports have had tremendous success discovering inexperienced talent with farm clubs. There are some valuable analogies. Individual discoveries illustrate the potential of organizing a farm club to draw athletes from the right pool in the right location.

And, as other sports have proven, if you put the right athlete with the right trainer, it doesn't take forever to develop stars.

The reasons that it usually takes forever to develop a boxing star are, first, there is no recruiting for the best boxing prospects at the junior high and high school level and, second, for those few who do go into boxing, boxing is filled with poor coaches who are not well versed in the principles and, because they are not skilled teachers, depend upon sparring to teach "by experience."

You can learn by sparring everyday from the outset of your training, but it will take forever, and you'll wind up with a mixture of good and bad form, what many coaches refer to as his "style" (sometimes referred to as an awkward style).

Ask any outstanding wrestling coach if he teaches wrestling by having them "wrestle." At the outset, they teach the beginning students drills and they practice specific moves and counter moves over and over and over -- the same is true of other sports. Good coaches are good teachers and they use a drill system. Rapid learning of good boxing skills requires the same repetitious practice of moves, timing, good mechanics (form), symmetry, and explosive execution of moves and their counters. A defensive move always sets up an offensive move.

Training methods in boxing are deficient compared to training methods in other sports. Our prospects will get great one-on-one teaching of good fundamentals, and, given the right athletes with the right coaches, it won't take forever to make them into stars. Their training will be rooted in good principles.

ACCIDENTAL RECRUITING IN BOXING

George Foreman got into boxing aa a fluke. He was playing football in the Job Corps. He had had lots of street fights in Houston, but had never tried boxing. In his late teens, a Job Corp supervisor (who was not a very good coach) saw him playing football and suggested he try boxing. He won the National Championships with very little training and a handful of amateur fights. He went on to win the gold medal in the Olympics in only his 19th amateur fight. Foreman was gifted with natural strength and power (acceleration) and had naturally efficient leverage in tranferring his weight. We would recruit for the same gifts.

That was over 30 years ago. Foreman was only 6' 3" and weighed only 219-lbs. Large is relative. Some of today's heavyweights in other sports are just as gifted but are 6' 6" to 6' 9". Some are larger. Believe it or not, we've seen some faster, stronger, more powerful, highly competitive athletes that would make "Big George" look small.

HEAVYWEIGHTS OF THE FUTURE

HBO's Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley tout the 6' 5" and 6' 6" heavyweights as the "size of the future." We agree. There are the 6' 5" and 6' 8" Klitschko brothers who have remarkable records and have stopped most of their opponents. Vitali is retired. No one would question that their size, notwithstanding their skill, is an advantage.

As discussed in "Modeling Other Sports," large heavyweights more gifted than these can be discovered with a recruiting program similar to the talent discovery programs of the other sports.