Pick a city (any country) and name its 3 best fighters all time

[JAB5239]

Pick a city and name its all time 3 best fighters. I suspect this thread may cause some debate when it gets to certain cities like Brooklyn, L.A., Detroit, and others.

I'll start with Pittsburgh.

1. Harry Greb
2. Billy Conn
3. Charley Burley

No doubt in my mind Greb is the greatest fighter this city ever produced, but I am really up in the air about Conn and Burley. I rate both very high all time and give a slight edge to Conn based on my opinion he would win a close head to head fight at their respective best.

Feel free to debate this and name some cities and fighters of your own.

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Pick a city and name its all time 3 best fighters. I suspect this thread may cause some debate when it gets to certain cities like Brooklyn, L.A., Detroit, and others.

I'll start with Pittsburgh.

1. Harry Greb
2. Billy Conn
3. Charley Burley

No doubt in my mind Greb is the greatest fighter this city ever produced, but I am really up in the air about Conn and Burley. I rate both very high all time and give a slight edge to Conn based on my opinion he would win a close head to head fight at their respective best.

Feel free to debate this and name some cities and fighters of your own.

Cincinnati
Ezzard Charles
Aaron Pryor
Freddie Miller

[1SILVA]

Pick a city and name its all time 3 best fighters. I suspect this thread may cause some debate when it gets to certain cities like Brooklyn, L.A., Detroit, and others.

I'll start with Pittsburgh.

1. Harry Greb
2. Billy Conn
3. Charley Burley

No doubt in my mind Greb is the greatest fighter this city ever produced, but I am really up in the air about Conn and Burley. I rate both very high all time and give a slight edge to Conn based on my opinion he would win a close head to head fight at their respective best.

Feel free to debate this and name some cities and fighters of your own.

Detroit
Ray Robinson
Joe Louis
Thomas Hearns

[1SILVA]

Pick a city and name its all time 3 best fighters. I suspect this thread may cause some debate when it gets to certain cities like Brooklyn, L.A., Detroit, and others.

I'll start with Pittsburgh.

1. Harry Greb
2. Billy Conn
3. Charley Burley

No doubt in my mind Greb is the greatest fighter this city ever produced, but I am really up in the air about Conn and Burley. I rate both very high all time and give a slight edge to Conn based on my opinion he would win a close head to head fight at their respective best.

Feel free to debate this and name some cities and fighters of your own.

St Louis
Archie Moore
Michael Spinks
Sonny Liston

[1SILVA]

Pick a city and name its all time 3 best fighters. I suspect this thread may cause some debate when it gets to certain cities like Brooklyn, L.A., Detroit, and others.

I'll start with Pittsburgh.

1. Harry Greb
2. Billy Conn
3. Charley Burley

No doubt in my mind Greb is the greatest fighter this city ever produced, but I am really up in the air about Conn and Burley. I rate both very high all time and give a slight edge to Conn based on my opinion he would win a close head to head fight at their respective best.

Feel free to debate this and name some cities and fighters of your own.

New Orleans
Joe Brown
Willie Pastrano
Ralph Dupas

[JAB5239]

Detroit
Ray Robinson
Joe Louis
Thomas Hearns

I was thinking about this one earlier. I know Ray was raised in Detroit, but I think Harlem would claim him as their fighter. You're from Harlem, whats your opinion?

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Northern Ireland:
Barry "Clones Cyclone" McGuigan (Born just accross the border in the south, but fought for N.Ireland in the Commonwealth games so I'm counting him!) WBA FW champ
Wayne "Pocket Rocket" McCullough - WBC BW champ
Dave "Boy" McAuley - IBF Flyweight champ

Not exactly a murderers row of fighters here in Northern Ireland, but the 3 of those would put up a tough fight.

[CymruAmByth]

Cardiff, Wales

JIM DRISCOLL
British, Empire & European
Featherweight Champion

BARRY JONES
WBO Super-Featherweight World Champion

STEVE ROBINSON
WBO Featherweight World Champion

[Southpaw16BF]

Santa Fe, Argentina
-Carlos Monzon
-Carlos Baldomir
-Marcos Rene Maidana

Sheffield, England
-Naseem Hamed
-Herol Grahem
-Johhny Nelson

Liverpool, England
-John Conteh
-Paul Hodkinson
-Colin Dunne

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I was thinking about this one earlier. I know Ray was raised in Detroit, but I think Harlem would claim him as their fighter. You're from Harlem, whats your opinion?

Great question. many Harlemites claim Ray as their own, and he did move to Harlem with his mother at the age of 12, so I'm on the fence as to whether or not to claim Sugar Ray. He owned several businesses in Harlem in the 1950's, and was considered the king of Harlem. If anyone wants to claim him as a New Yorker, I have no problems with that.