Roy Jones Jr. spoke with the Pensacola Journal and explained his thoughts on why Eastern European fighters are better than American fighters.
"We are now just not as good as the other countries, The Eastern countries, they started at 10 with kids and they have schools for boxing," stated Roy Jones.
"We have schools for basketball, other sports, but we don't have boxing schools. So how are you going to keep up when those kids (in Eastern Europe) are going to school every day boxing from age 10 until Olympic time? You're not going to keep up. And so eventually these other fighters are going to surpass you. Their boxing teams as a whole are better than ours. Why? Because everybody has run over there teaching an amateur program.
"We are now just not as good as the other countries, The Eastern countries, they started at 10 with kids and they have schools for boxing," stated Roy Jones.
"We have schools for basketball, other sports, but we don't have boxing schools. So how are you going to keep up when those kids (in Eastern Europe) are going to school every day boxing from age 10 until Olympic time? You're not going to keep up. And so eventually these other fighters are going to surpass you. Their boxing teams as a whole are better than ours. Why? Because everybody has run over there teaching an amateur program.
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