A closer look at Ray Edwards' victorious boxing debut

About a dozen Minnesota Vikings turned out Friday night to watch teammate -- for now -- Ray Edwards make his professional boxing debut at Grand Casino Hinckley. Edwards' performance wasn't inspiring, but he did record two knockdowns en route to a unanimous, four-round decision over Duluth's T.J. Gibson.

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[SvRS2010]

Stop boxing and come get sacks for atlanta

[frankparra1]

He might not be good at boxing but he's a beast at defensive end! Welcome to the dirty birds!

[brandeezy108]

@huraha96704 the world stage? sure this guy got beat, but he's a football player. he can't box for crap.

[huraha96704]

Sonny Bill Williams just KOed Clarence Tillman american boxer with 22 professional fights. Comeon NFL fight Sonny Bill Williams. His last fight was on pay per view. World Cup Rugby against NFL. Lets see who has the real athletes. Sonny Bill KOs Ray Edwards.

[huraha96704]

Years ago the AFL gridiron teams had some boys box rugby boys and the gridiron boys were beaten. So much for the idea that some great boxer is hiding in the NFL gridiron. Gridiron boys couldn't beat professional boxers and they couldn't even beat the rugby boys. 20 countries play world cup rugby with about the same population as America. Let's have rugby against american football. Sonny Bill Williams against Ray Edwards. LOL. NFL fat boys hit the canvas hard.

[huraha96704]

When americans step up to the world stage they get beat. If Ray Edwards is ready to box Sonny Bill Williams he can call him out at any time. Rugby player against football player. Let's see who has the real athletes.

[huraha96704]

You're not British. You're way off on how much world cup rugby players are paid. Rugby players have never played gridiron, which is a sport like golf consisting of mostly standing around, thinking, and occasional action. Gridiron requires specialists in doing one little job. Rugby players are true athletes capable of every aspect of the game. I don't accept that gridiron players could excell on the world stage in anything. Not in boxing, not in international rugby. Americans have a little sport.

[m83m83m83m83]

and from what i've been able to gather online, the AVERAGE rugby player's salary hovers around 60,000. the nfl's collective bargaining agreement mandates that the bare MINIMUM a brand new rookie in the league is guaranteed to make is 375,000. it's pretty simple logic that these superhuman athletes you describe would have in fact tried their hand by now at dominating the "fat lazy slobs" of the nfl. and if they dominated the way you described their contracts would be closer to 18 million a year.

[m83m83m83m83]

haha ok buddy you just claimed that a rugby team could put on pads and beat the nfl superbowl champs. clearly you just arent interested in making rational arguments and are damn near about to explode with delusional euro pride. i'm a brit myself with dual citizenship in america. i've played 4 years of american football and 3 years club rugby against d-1 college teams. see cuz i personally wouldn't go crazy going on about the superiority of one sport vs another unless i had actually played them

[huraha96704]

Ray Edwards should fight Sonny Bill Williams. Sonny Bill will KO him. As far as gridiron goes. Ha! It's easy to proclaim yourselves world champions when you don't compete against anybody else in the world. Rugby is the international sport of big men not american gridiron. And american athletes are not better than the world's athletes. In fact, it's the reverse. We have 6' 8" big men in rugby, but none of them can be a fat slob with no endurance as in gridiron.

[huraha96704]

Rugby athletes can do american hurry up offense all day. The americans would be panting and exhausted after 50 meters. Rugby can be adapted to gridiron. Gridiron can't adapt to Rugby. Rugby is the Daddy of Gridrion. All gridiron rules come from rugby and rugby players can do all of gridiron not the reverse. Gridiron non athletes have no defense against rugby passing and running which is more like basketball and requires athletes like basketball.

[huraha96704]

@m83m83m83m83 Jonah is not the fastest man in rugby by a long shot. All rugby players are what americans call "skill" players. All can run, pass, kick, and tackle. That is not the case with american gridiron. If american gridiron wants to have international recognition, then the superbowl champion should play the world cup rugby champion in 5 games of rugby and 5 games of american football. The rugby champs will take at least 1 game of football and all 5 rugby.