All the really good atheletes aren't boxing now. 76 Olympics were unbelievable talent wise for the U.S. Ray Leanord, Howard Davis, Leo Randolph, Spinx bros etc. Big John Tate was the only real slug on the team and compared to this years US rep for heavy, he was pretty damn good. I think the death of boxing can be traced back to one thing. Greed. Back in the early 90s, late 80sThey decided to put any fight that was even remotely competitive on PPV which cut out a lot of audience. We just got the low level fights. Killed the interest. I think another contributing factor was terrible decisions on fights.