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Your chances of winning the lottery are better than your chances of becoming an undisputed boxing champion.If you box, box because you love the exercise and the sport, and understand if you do not have world class talent and drive, all the matchmaking in the world won’t make you what you were not born to be…The most interesting facts about boxing how hard it is to master, and how dangerous it is…CREDIT PICTURE MEN’S HEALTHOnly an idiot would tell you you can get yourself a great manager and earn a championship, fame, and money, as a boxer. If you follow that logic, you can believe in yourself that you will become an astronaut or a physicist. Neither is likely to be the case, though probably the odds of better on that than becoming a fighter earning millions.This is not to discourage people from following their dreams - but they also need to be realistic as to whether they have the basic talent to even dream that…Interesting facts about boxing?Boxing is an excellent system for self defense and overall fitness.It can teach discipline, and advance a spartan work ethic.it requires not only physical mastery, but incredible mental discipline, focus, and agility;But if you are looking for fame and fortune, it is a million to one shot for the average person…and there are some things you should be aware of…Like the fact boxing is the most difficult and time consuming sport to master…Like the fact boxing will give you brain damage and can cause dementia…Boxing is the hardest sport in the world to masterHow difficult is it to become a world class boxer? According to Gene Tunney, former undisputed heavyweight champion, in his book A Man Must Fight:“You never truly master boxing. You learn its intricacies your entire life. It is as complicated as chess in its moves, and harder to learn. By the time your mind truly learns the skills you must have, your body has begun to fail you. Boxing is the most unforgiving of sports. Many try to climb the mountain - very, very, very, few get to the top."Boxing is generally considered the hardest sport of all to learn, and takes years or even decades. To not just learn to box, and learn well, but to then climb the mountain, as Gene Tunney said, to become elite, requires an extraordinary mixture of mental and physical ability, discipline, and plain old luck.Jack Blackburn, Joe Louis’s legendary trainer, who had also been a great fighter himself, was asked once to compare Joe Louis to Jesse Ownes, which, Blackburn was asked, was the greatest master of sport.Blackburn paused, thought, and said:“boxing can kill you, or can kill the other guy. It ain’t just physical, it takes mastering your mind plus your physical talent. The heavyweight champion of the world is the number one athlete on the planet.”And Blackburn was right. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of guys have died in the ring since the dawn of the modern boxing age. Boxing takes years, sometimes decades, to master, and requires exquisite mental facilities as well as extraordinary physical talent.And I mean EXTRAORDINARY physical talent, and EXQUISITE mental ability, plus LUCK.Boxing is the most physically and mentally demanding sport that there is. Bleacher Report, examining which sport was the hardest, had this to say about boxing:“Boxing at the highest level requires a plethora of physical and mental abilities. Not only must a boxer be in absolute top physical condition, they must also be extremely sharp mentally. A boxer is required to have superb coordination, foot speed, strength, power, quickness, and endurance in order to have even the least bit of success.Open Mic: Which Sport Has The Best Athletes?Which sport has the best all-around athletes? That question has been asked, debated, and fought over by sports fans for decades. Yet despite the attention this subject has received, no concrete consensus has been reached...https://bleacherreport.com/articles/30633-open-mic-which-sport-has-the-best-athletesWhy is boxing the toughest sport to master? That is subjective, however, you have to go by criteria established by experts, and in doing so, boxing again is very clearly is the toughest sport to master.That's the sport that demands the most, mentally and physically, from the athletes who compete in it, according to a panel of sports scientists created by ESPN.The panel was organized from the following:three Ph.D.’s that specialize in the science of muscles and movement,a Director of the Coaching and Sports Sciences Division at the United States Olympic Committee,a sports star andvarious other sports writers, historians and expertsThe panel then voted on what makes certain sports more difficult. The committee evaluated ten categories; endurance, strength, power, speed, agility, flexibility, nerve, durability, hand-eye coordination, and analytic aptitude.Boxing emerged as the consensus most difficult sport.It's tougher than football, harder than baseball, harder than basketball, tougher than martial arts, gymnastics, hockey or soccer or cycling or skiing or fishing or billiards or any other of the 60 sports which ESPN rated.Martial arts was 6th, Gymnastics was 8th.Boxing was first.The United States Olympic Committee officially lists boxing as the most difficult of the 60 sports it overseesThe United States Olympic Committee ranked boxing as the most difficult of 60 sports due to its high demands of endurance, speed and durability.Not only are the physical demands incredibly arduous, the mental demands are extremely formidable as well.So the bottom line is you have a better chance of becoming a world class physicist than you do of becoming a world class boxer.Boxing is mental, not just physical:Gene Tunney said in A Man Must Fight::“boxing requires not just speed and strength, and uncommon agility, it requires courage, discipline, and a rare mind that is able to shut out all the noise, and concentrate solely and completely on the man across from you trying to knock your head off.”The greatest trainer of them all, Jack Blackburn, had something to say about the mental and emotional side of boxing as well in Joe Louis: Hard Times Man:“Even if you are born fast and strong, with a jaw of iron and arms that can knock down a wall, it won’t do you or me a bit of good if you can’t master the mental part of the sport, the focus, and the discipline. Then you have to have the courage, and determination you need. One in a million have it all.”What are your chances of making the pros as a boxer?Almost every professional athlete works hard - but the numbers say less than half of boxers make even 32K a year! Only 19 out of 21,000 professional boxers in the entire world made over a million dollars! Out of over 6.5 million boxers in the United States, only 13,000 made it to the pros.One fanboy answer says:“Skillful matchmaking can drive a non-Olympian to a world title shot in 18-months”Only in your imagination!There are 4,050 boxing gyms and clubs in the US alone as of 2020.(Credit: IBISWorld - Industry Market Research, Reports, and Statistics)Approximately 6.53 million people, the vast majority doing it for fitness, are going to boxing gyms and clubs in the US.(Credit Boxing: number of participants U.S. 2017 | Statista)There are 20,000 pro boxers active in the entire world.Yes, you can make millions as a professional fighter – but only 19 athletes out of 21,000 successfully manage it.65% of boxers come from North America, the US and Canada. That is 13,000. Assume they all come from the US, and your chances of even being a pro boxer are less than .02%.Your chances of becoming rich are far less than that, .00029% or under 3 in a million out of the total that box.Based on a sampling of salaries from across the country, job search website Simply Hired estimates the average salary of a working professional boxer at $32,000 per year as of 2011.And only half of pro boxers even see $32,000 a year.If you don’t have the ability, physical and mental, you can’t develop what isn’t thereGene Tunney said in A Man Must Fight::“I was blessed with everything I needed to be a champion. I had speed, strength, every natural ability, including mental acuity. The question came down to was I willing to work sufficiently hard to harness what God had given me?”In other words, you can’t develop what is not there.Back to Gene Tunney again in A Man Must Fight::“Even if God blessed you, as he did me, with extraordinary physical gifts, it is a long and hard road to develop them, and master a truly unforgiving sport.”In other words, you can’t develop what is not there.Want it all day, you won’t reach the mountaintop unless God gave you the strength and speed to climb that far.Finally, an interesting fact is how dangerous boxing is…Robert Smith, an ex-boxer who is now General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control says:“Every fatality is a disaster. We do everything in our power to stop this happening, working to make boxing safer. But it is a dangerous sport and boxers are aware of the issues."The thing is, it is impossible to argue that the basic premise of boxing is to beat up and inflict harm on your opponent, and he or she on you.Even Amateur boxers suffer brain damageYes, you read that right. Getting hit in the head as an amateur, whether in Golden Gloves or in a posh boxing club, does brain damage.Getting hit in the head is dangerous, period.Does Amateur Boxing Cause Brain Damage?Boxers were tested after a fight and then again three months after rest from boxing. Blows to the head in amateur boxing appear to cause brain damage, according to new research.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502093035.htmFormer world light heavyweight boxing champion John Conteh, once told boxing historian and writer Alan Hubbard:“When the bell goes, and I leave my corner, I can never be sure I am coming back."More damage is done neurologically from sparring than from fights, and again, this applies no matter what level you are boxing atLet that sink in: more brain trauma long term damage is done to fighters sparring than in actual fights.Indeed, boxers are more at risk of brain damage when sparring during training than in actual fights, because of the amount of sheer hours spent sparring, and the cumulative effects of it, according to a research study by a Australian doctor and researcher whose expertise is extremely highly regarded.Sparring a bigger risk than real bouts.In a thesis prepared with colleague Michael Wang and published in the British Medical Journal, Dr Peter Lewis described boxing as “a popular activity with many health benefits” but also stressed the dangers, finding that most of the trauma contributing to brain damage boxer sustain happens in training, especially in sparring, rather than in fights.It appears all too many fighters and trainers are too old school and tough about possible brain trauma, concussions, in sparring sessions.Think about the sheer number of hours fighters spend sparring as opposed to in actual fights, and this is exactly and precisely why more neural trauma occurs during sparring than real fights.And, there is no ring doctor present during sparring, and no mandated sit outs for suspected concussions!Examination, treatment of any suspected trauma, MUST be by qualified physicians and medical experts to prevent permanent harm, or even death, whether in sparring or in actual bouts!So to sum up, boxing is great exercise, and it does breed discipline if you are going to even become a good novice. But be aware fame and fortune are almost certainly not coming unless you were born with great genes, and that boxing is incredibly dangerous…

Eastern Europeans look more fair haired and Nordic European than Jews. Even dark haired Eastern Europeans, such as Russian Olympic silver medalist and World Champion Evgenia Medvedeva, are relatively fair in eye and complexion. Same for say, Evgeny Plushenko with his strawberry hair. Russian Empire started with Scandinavian conquest of Ukraine. Russia started expanding from outside Ukraine and now they’re trying to reconquest Crimea and the Donbas, because of its resources.As for genetic links, maybe Eurasians, Central Asians, and East Asians. China via the Silk Trade Route. Eurasia - Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. Central Asians - Ukrainians. White Ukrainians i.e. ethnic Ukrainians are a mix of Scandinavian and Eurasian/Asian descent anyway. So a Jewish person who married a European Ukrainian could create a baby with a bit of Eurasian/Asian mix, plus West Asian from the Jewish parent. Ukrainians were also briefly conquered by Mongols so some may have some Mongolian in there profile as well. But Ukrainian ethnicity is a European ethnicity, and Ukrainian nationality a European nationality. It is the largest country in Europe other than Russia - and it is actually where the story of Russia began.In general, Eastern Europeans might receive some Asian foreign admixture in their profile due to the presence of Tatars, Jews, and Central Asians such as Kyrgyz-Russians and Kyrgyz-Ukrainians. Russia is also proximal to China and Japan, and has a substantial East Asian population. The Silk Trade route connected Jewish and European merchants and traders to China, which developed a Jewish community in Kaifeng known as the Kaifeng Jewish community. The Chinese emperor welcomed the Jews to China and permitted Jews to keep their traditions, even offering names often used by Jews outside China as surname suggestions. Surnames generally developed as a way to record place of residence, occupation or other relevant personal information; so the emperor may have wanted a way to know which clan was which and be able to identify community members.Here’s Evgenia Medvedeva:This program won an Olympic silver medal in Pyeongchang, Korea.Here’s South Korean lady figure skater Yuna Kim:This program won an Olympic gold medal in Vancouver, Canada.Here’s Michelle Kwan:This program won an Olympic silver medal in Nagano, Japan.This program won an Olympic silver medal in Vancouver, Canada.This is Sasha Cohen:This program won an Olympic silver medal in Turin, Italy.Here is Alexandra Raisman of the United States:This program won an Olympic gold medal in London, England.This program won an Olympic silver medal in Rio, Brazil.Here is Israeli international elite rhythmic gymnast Linoy Ashram:Israeli elite gymnast Nicol Zelikman:Here is Israeli elite gymnast Neta Rivkin:Here is Israeli elite synchronized swimmer Inna Yoffe performing a duet:Here is Russian male figure skater Evgeny Plushenko:Asian-Russian skater Alina Zagitova:This program won her an Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang, Korea.Japanese Skating Champion Yuzuru Hanyu:This program won him a second Olympic gold medal in Pyeongchang, Korea.Pair skating Champions Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze:This program won the pair a (controversial) Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City, United States.Due to allegations of vote trading, the judges were forced to issue a retraction and extend a second gold medal in an unprecedented decision to French Canadian figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.Russian figure skater Alena Kostornaia demonstrates her triple Axel jump at an international competition:Alena Kostornaia skates for Russia.World Bronze Medalist Elena Radionova performs at the World Championships:Elena Radionova performs at the World Figure Skating Championships.Elite Russian international athlete, Olympian and World Champion Maria Butyrskaya performs at a competition:Maria Butyrskaya skates for Russia.Maria Butyrskaya’s “17 Moments of Spring” program at the Grand Prix Final:Legendary Russian figure skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov skate a lovely Olympic gala:The two-time Olympic Champions who are also World Figure Skating Champions skate a final gala before returning to professional performing. He died tragically young of heart attack, on the ice.Russian Olympic Champions Volozhovar and Trankov:These programs won the pair an Olympic gold medal in Sochi, Russia.Polish-American Ladies Figure Skating Champion Tara Lipinski:These programs won her an Olympic gold medal in Nagano, Japan.Here is Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion and Team Olympic Gold Medalist, Evgeny Plushenko, at the 2002 Winter Games:This program won him an Olympic silver medal in Salt Lake City, United States. The music is Bizet’s opera.This program won him an Olympic gold medal in Turin, Italy.Here is Russian gymnastics Champion and legend Svetlana Khorkina:This program won her an Olympic gold medal in Atlanta, United States.This program won her an Olympic silver medal in Sydney, Australia.Ukrainian elite international gymnast Lilia Podkopayeva performs at the European Gymnastics Championships:Ukrainian elite international athlete Tatiana Lysenko competes at the 1993 World Championships:Ukrainian Olympian and elite gymnastics athlete Viktoria Karpenko:Olympic Champion Tatiana Gustu of Ukraine:Tatiana Gutsu wins Olympic gold in Barcelona, Spain for this program. She is known with affection as “The Painted Bird of Odessa.”Here is Russian-American Olympic Champion Nastia Liukin:Here she is winning Olympic gold in the women’s all-around final.This is her floor program. Music is Russian folk song “Dark Eyes” minus lyrics. She relies on string orchestration.This is Hall of Famer and Jewish American athlete Sandy Koufax. He is the youngest athlete ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.Oldest living Olympian, Champion, Holocaust survivor, and Olympic silver medalist Agnes Keleti is pictured. She peaked as a gymnast at age 31, defeating Russian rival Letinina to achieve Olympic gold on floor. At the time the Soviets had invaded her home country of Hungary which she fled when told to wear the yellow star. During the war and genocide she worked as a maid. The Hungarians at the time were rebelling from repressive Communist rule so she had to be equally focused on threats to her country and her gold. She said she focused more on the events in Hungary and felt more worried about that than about winning. The water polo broke out into a brawl between Hungarians and Russians which required police presence in order to prevent a riot. She believes it is important for women’s sports to make room for athletes of different ages because some women, like herself, reach their athletic peak later and others comparatively earlier. She is concerned that increasingly youthful champions will lead both to issues with injury, strain, and health, in the long and short term; and for the loss of artistry and style in her sport. Which is often improved with greater maturity. The Hungarian Olympic delegation did not want go back to Hungary, so she relocated herself and her family to Israel where she now coaches.Here is two-time Olympic champion and several times over medalist as well as two-time team captain and activist Alexandra Raisman.She speaks about her activism and role in the ongoing lawsuit against USAG for their cover-up of child sex abuse and other forms of abuse. This is a recent interview.Here she competes on bars at the 2016 Classic, an elite senior international event.Here she competes at the balance beam in an early international appearance. Recently named to the national team she made her goal to impress team leader Marta Karolyi. Here she competes in her hometown of Needham, Massachusetts. She lands an Arabian double with which she struggled in the warmup preparation.Here is Jewish-American Olympic champion George Gulack (1905–1987). He won an Olympic gold medal on flying bars in the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.George Gulack won a gold medal in Flying Rings at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. His gold medal marked the United States’ last Olympic men’s gymnastics championship for 52 years—until the U.S. Team captured an assortment of medals at the 1984 Olympic Games. (Only one U.S. gymnastics medal was won during the 52-year drought, a bronze in 1976.)As a 16-year-old student, Gulack won the Latvian All-Around Championship in 1921. Between 1928 and 1935, he won four U.S. Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, two on the Rings and one each on Parallel Bars and Floor Exercises.Upon retiring from competition in 1935, Gulack became a force on the administration side of gymnastics. In 1948, he helped draft a new set of AAU rules designed to conform with international regulations, a major advance in the American national gymnastics program. That same year, he served as manager of the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic gymnastic teams.George GulackFellow American Abie Grossfeld, also Jewish, competes on bars and earns a high score of 9+. This video shows the Summer Games of 1960. He also competed in 1956, and won 15 medals in the Pan American Games.He also won 17 medals at the Maccabi Games. Later he worked as a coach. He coached five World Championships. He also coached a gymnast who won a bronze Olympic medal in 1996. He also worked in sport as a competitive judge. He continues coaching now.Here is Jewish American actress Natalie Portman giving a speech at the Women’s March.Here is a brief clip of Russian Jewish ballerina Maya Pliesetskaya. The video shows her dancing.Here is the story of Francesca Mann Polish-Jewish dancer.Here are some Jewish Israeli singers.They don’t look like Swedes to me. Or Russians.Hagit Yaso and Maya Rae perform a duet from “Prince of Egypt” in Vancouver, Canada.Here Luciana Berger, abuse survivor, activist, and political leader, speaks.She received violent threats to her person and to her unborn child. She also tried to report the level of ongoing racial abuse and hate speech in her political party, Labour. “Particularly in the background of the referendum….the atmosphere ….is a lot more toxic. There’s a lot more racism and antisemitism……is a part of that. It would be very easy for me…..to pretend that there isn’t a problem. That isn’t why I got into Parliament. …Particularly in a party that’s supposed to pride itself on its values of equality for all, we’ve got a lot of work to do to ensure we are the diverse country that the world wants to see……I come from a family that comes from many corners of the Jewish Diaspora. I am a mix of both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions…in Britain, we found our home. We have proudly been a part of British society….for hundreds of years. …I grew up in multicultural London. I had never seen antisemitism as a child. I knew form my own family history….what antisemitism was.In a debate, [a British politician] told my uncle to ‘go back to Poland.’I received my first person of hate mail at the age of 19. ‘Dirty Zionist Pig.’ Then [they stalked me in college]….…I received countless antisemitic emails and letters, condemning my work….when I was selected….people publicly challenged how I could represent members of the Benghali community, because of my faith. Four people have been convicted for antisemitic abuse and harassment they have directed towards me. …And are in prison…..[someone] [created a campaign] so I received thousands of vile pornographic antisemitic messages.I make no apology for holding my own party to a high standard.…One antisemitic member of the Labour Party is one member too many. (hear hear)…..Within the Labour Party, antisemitism is more conspicuous and more corrosive. (hear hear).…..Who attack me for speaking against antisemitism, where I question an antisemitic mural, who called it a smear….who have said I am Tel Aviv’s servant, a paid up Israeli operative which is antisemitism….They call me Judas, a Nazi, a parasite, telling me to get out of this country and go back to Israel. I am grateful to the police….for keeping me…[ …] and my community safe. But they shouldn’t have to do that.……The hurt and anguish of the Jewish community must be understood and must be taken seriously. This is not the time for games or divisive engagements. There is a need to better protect…everyone online. I urge the committee to see the comments to see comments already on Twitter, already (hear hear). (murmuring) My party urged me to address this consistently…and expel….people holding these views including Ken Livingstone (hear hear).Being a bystander is not an option. The time for action is now. …And I just ant to conclude with the very eloquent words of the former Chief Rabbi Chief Sacks and he said an assault on jews is an assault on difference. And a world that has no room for difference, has no room for humanity itself (hear hear).”“I left behind a very toxic party on every level,” she tells The Independentwhile out door-knocking. “I attended my last Labour Party meeting in October last year and vowed never to go back because it was so unpleasant – it was so toxic, there was no humanity in the room.“Being in the Liberal Democrats is so refreshing and so positive. I can have disagreements with people and we do so in an adult way where people don’t shout and scream at you and hurl abuse in your direction.”The abuse directed at Berger far exceeded the levels that have become the norm for many MPs. The threats to her safety were deemed so severe that she was forced to have a professional security detail accompany her to Labour’s annual conference last year and, on police advice, has had to take a series of measures to protect her and her family.'The abuse made me physically ill’: Luciana Berger reveals toll of fighting antisemitism while Labour MPs refused to stand by herShe recounts the various incidents with a calmness that is almost jarring given what she is describing: images of her head being Photoshopped onto rats and pornographic photos, letters signed by self-declared supporters of her former party leader and delivered to her office by hand, warning that she would be raped, stabbed and covered in acid.'The abuse made me physically ill’: Luciana Berger reveals toll of fighting antisemitism while Labour MPs refused to stand by herThe recently revealed dossier reveals “damning evidence” - the Guardian’s words - of the extent of the racial abuse scandal within the Labour Party. The man they sent to investigate it, a Jewish Labour member, became a target himself and became very depressed due to the abuse he himself received.The above videos, visuals, and displays reveal some of the differences in appearance between Jewish and European ethnic individuals and communities. If you want to learn more, you can look up some of your own, and read. The answer below that says they look quite similar on average is misleading - while some Jews could pass as ethnic Europeans and vice versa, and the two groups sometimes mixed, both are distinct ethnic and cultural groups. Just as Native Americans and African Americans mixed with European Americans, and with each other. Yet each retained a degree of cohesive ethnic and cultural identity sufficient to be called a single ethnic group, however diverse.Looking at photos of mixed Jewish/European people, such as Scarlett Johansson, Oksana Baiul, or Sarah Hughes might give you a sense of how ethnically mixed people of that precise background on average appear. But that too will be quite variable, just as any other ethnic combination is, since a range of factors go into the genetics for appearance and appearance is itself variable over time due to again, a huge number of factors. I think Hughes looks very visibly Irish and Ashkenazi Jewish, and the Chua sisters a mix of East and West Asian, but that’s probably because I know their background already. If I didn’t, I might well guess, that, for example, Ms. Hughes is half English, or Ms. Chua half Korean, rather than Irish and Han Chinese. And in general the best thing to do is focus on things other than people’s appearances. Still, as a Jewish person I like to think I have a functioning “Jewdar” as the city folks say and indeed, as a New Yorker at least I am often right in guessing whether a person is Jewish or not (assuming they’re not a convert whose face doesn’t precisely reveal their cultural background in that sense). We do have a distinct set of features, albeit broken into the various subcultures that make up our community and nation.