your new name, change it. and suck my left testie

and once again i have stated SEVERAL TIMES where you where raised means absolutely NOTHING about how tough a person is. (but then you didnt both to read the entire thread did you?) that is how this conversation got started in the 1st place genius.

where you “rep” may not be where you where raised, where you where born or even where you live. take me for instance, i am FROM SA but i live in houston, i “rep” SA (ask anyone here). shaq for example, was FROM NJ and still “reps that way” but he lived there for only about 5 yrs. he “grew up” mostly in san antonio (we used to go watch him play at cole high school), every claims shaq to be a bad ass but san antonio is not the “mean streets of baltimore” and if melo is a “tough guy” because he grew up in baltimore OR in NYC then both places mus not be all THAT hard because he is one pussy ass bitch if i ever saw one, punch duck and run my brother run.

buuuhhhhhh bye

MY point was that just because you’re BORN somewhere doesn’t mean ANYTHING. So, Melo was born in New York. Then he lived there for 9 years. That made him tough? He got into lots of big boy fights when he was 5? Get your own shit out of here. How much of your personality and current contacts did you get from before you were 9? Don’t think too hard on this.

Again, my point was that just because you were born in a certain place, you don’t automatically take on personality traits from that place. So, to reiterate, just because you were born in the city doesn’t make you a city person. It’s where you were RAISED. And Melo was RAISED, really, in and around Baltimore. And no, I don’t really want any more from you, since all it’s doing is making this page worse…

I’d also say the Joey/Stephen Graham combo would win wrestling, since they could pull the old Killer Bees move from WWF and switch half way through the match.

For boxing, I would think that training in the off-season would be a major factor, so:
- Mike James
- Caron Butler (or Kendall Gill – who actually WAS a boxer after retiring)
- Al Harrington or Paul Milsap
- Manute Bol (ok – maybe the Celebrity Boxing training wouldn’t help him beat Shaq)

Home Run Derby — aren’t there any current NBA’ers who were taken in the MLB draft? I remember Donny Marshall from UConn and the Nets was drafted as a pitcher, MJ had that stint in the minors, and Danny Ainge back in the day also was drafted.

If not, then I’d have to say Ray Allen, since he is also the best golfer in the NBA apparently.

Marathon — Rip’s mask would hold him back, so I’d have to go with Devin Harris, Luol Deng, or maybe Steve Nash as a sleeper.

Decathalon — Kirilenko or Marion. Both are freaks.

High Jump — has to be a 1-footed jumper over 6’7″, so Josh Smith, Rudy Gay, or Jamario Moon seem like the favorites.

100m Dash — gotta be about 6′ to 6’4″ and athletic, so Barbosa and Monta Ellis fit the profile of a sprinter.

weightlifting – ben wallace

high jump – gerald green

marathon – rip hamilton

decathalon – andre iguodala. just a good all around athlete

shaq is big and strong but not quite the athlete that would do well in the olympics