Who are the best fighters produced by your nation?
USA, UK, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Eastern European Block, Philippines, Canada, etc.
:boxing: Who wants to start? :boxing:
Edit: I mean Active fighters
Bute is Romanian and Lewis is British.
Yeah... Canada sucks huh?
well, I don't know too much about bute and his history so I can't argue cuz I really thought he was Canadian since almost all his fights are in Montreal.
But I can say for sure that Lewis is much more Canada's than he is Britains. He grew up in Canada. He learned to love boxing and started training for boxing in Canada. And he won super heavyweight Gold in the olympics for Canada. He just couldn't find the sponsers to support him in Canada so he went off to England. So essentially he was bought by England but he is truley a Canadian.
PUERTO RICO
1-Miguel Cotto
2-Ivan Calderon
3-Kertmit Cintron
4-Carlos Quintana
5-Juan Manuel Lopez(future champion)
6-Daniel Santos(just turn mandatory for the wba LMW)
7-Alex De Jesus
8-Roman Martinez
9-Omar Soto(contender,may hold a belt soon)
10-Victor Bisbal(good heavyweight up and comer)
from 5 to 10 i see them future champions.
When did Oscar become a naturalized Mexican citizen? I didn't know that. I was about to criticize you for having one of our Mexican-Americans in your sig, but if that's true that's pretty damn cool.
1999.................
Im an American by birth, but family came over here a generation before me, so I definitely have Bohemian (Czech) roots.
American:
Bernard Hopkins
Chad Dawson
Floyd Mayweather
Kelly Pavlik
Cory Spinks
Vernon Forrest
Eddie Chambers
Steve Cunningham
Juan Diaz
Jermain Taylor
Being a former Communist state, pro boxing history isn't there
so the current guys are the best ever
Czech:
Lubos Suda
Ondrej Pala
Rudlof Kraj
Lukas Konecny
We have a couple more with blown up records, but they aren't really that good. So its these four guys.
ARMENIA http://www.vanesboxing.com/images/flag_armenia_anim.gif
1) Arthur Abraham
2) Vic Darchinyan
3) Vanes Martirosyan
... not bad for a nation with only about 7 million people worldwide huh.
anyway, here's my list:
MEXICO
Oscar De La Hoya(one of the few americans who actually went out of his way to nationalize himself mexican)
Erik Morales(he IS returning in 2009)
Marco Antonio Barrera(he IS returning soon...)
Juan Manuel Marquez
Rafael Marquez
Israel Vazquez
Cristian Mijares
Daniel Ponce De Leon
Ulises Solis
Edgar Sosa
....................im too lazy to continue...
When did Oscar become a naturalized Mexican citizen? I didn't know that. I was about to criticize you for having one of our Mexican-Americans in your sig, but if that's true that's pretty damn cool.
Bute is Romanian and Lewis is British.
Yeah... Canada sucks huh?
why do you go out of your way to make a knock on Canada?
who's the best hockey player from Wales?
Canada has
Gretzky
Lemieux
Yzerman
Bobby Hull
Finland's top 10 best fighters of all time:
1 Gunnar Bärlund (top HW contender during Joe Louis' era, KO'd Buddy Baer, ducked by Joe Louis lol)
2 Elis Ask
3 Olli Mäki (challenged Davey Moore for the world title)
4 Risto Luukkonen
5 Tarmo Uusivirta
6 Pekka Kokkonen (lost to Harold Johnson)
7 Jyri Kjäll
8 Yrjö Piitulainen
9 Oiva Purho
10 Sten Suvio
Right now:
Amin Asikainen (KO'd Sebastian Sylvester & old man Campas)
...
1. Joe Calzaghe
2. David Haye
3. Ricky Hatton
4. Junior Witter
5. Clinton Woods
6. Alex Arthur
7. Enzo Maccarinelli
8. Carl Froch
9. Amir Khan
10. Kevin Mitchell
Canada
Current
Arturo Gatti
Lucien Bute
Joachim Alcine
Jean Pascal
Troy Ross
Jean Francois Bergeron
All-time
Lennox Lewis
Sam Langford
Tommy Burns
George Chuvalo
Trever Berbick
Razor Ruddock
Bute is Romanian and Lewis is British.
Yeah... Canada sucks huh?
anyway, here's my list:
MEXICO
Oscar De La Hoya(one of the few americans who actually went out of his way to nationalize himself mexican)
Erik Morales(he IS returning in 2009)
Marco Antonio Barrera(he IS returning soon...)
Juan Manuel Marquez
Rafael Marquez
Israel Vazquez
Cristian Mijares
Daniel Ponce De Leon
Ulises Solis
Edgar Sosa
....................im too lazy to continue...
Canada
Current
Arturo Gatti
Lucian Bute
Joachim Alcine
Jean Pascal
Troy Ross
Jean Francois Bergeron
All-time
Lennox Lewis
Sam Langford
Tommy Burns
George Chuvalo
Trever Berbick
Razor Ruddock