Boxers who won the title in the opponents back yard.

[BattlingNelson]

Kovalev beating Cleverly in very hostile sorrundings fits the bill.

[Welsh Jon]

Kessler only defended his title in Oz. He didn't win it there.

Oops faulty memory! I thought that was a unification fight.
Kessler unified with Beyer though. And that was in Denmark so that doesn't count either.

[greeh]

Does it have to be the first time they won a title? The reason why I wonder is because Luis Ibarra won his first title against Betulio Gonzalez in Venezuela, lost it to Tae-Shik Kim, but regained the same title once more after beating Santos Benigno Laciar in Argentina.

That’s actually a quite remarkable feat, because it is easier said than done to get a decision in those countries.

Anyway, here are a few others:

Gilberto Roman - Jiro Watanabe
Alfonso Lopez - Erbito Salavarria
Hilario Zapata - Shigeo Nakajima
Soo-Hwan Hong - Arnold Taylor
Miguel Canto - Shoji Oguma
Santos Benigno Laciar - Peter Mathebula
Bernabe Villacampo - Hiroyuki Ebihara
Orzubek Nazarov - Dingaan Thobela
Pascual Perez - Yoshio Shirai
Bernardo Pinango - Gaby Canizales
Ricardo Lopez - Hideyuki Ohashi
Antonio Avelar - Shoji Oguma
Gabriel Bernal - Koji Kobayashi
Nana Yaw Konadu - Gilberto Roman
Amado Ursua - Hilario Zapata
Freddy Castillo - Luis Estaba
Frank Cedeno - Charlie Magri
Humberto Gonzalez - Yul-Woo Lee

[Bolo Punch]

Wayne McCullough went to Japan and took the title off Yasuei Yakushiji.

[jas]

hopkins came up sort twice but won the pascal rematch in jean's home country. in each of 2 world title fights in the opponents hometown, he got knocked down twice, fought back to get a draw , and won the rematch. once was against segundo mercado in his home country but the rematch was in america and the pascal one he won the rematch to become oldest world chmapion in history.

[Kiddoe]

The infamous fight at Wembley..

Hagler destroys Minter... Crowd goes ballistic...

[istmeno]

Anselmo Moreno over Vladimir Sydorenko in Germany