List of the Countries with the most Current Pro Boxers

it's saying 546 today. And They've had 50 pro shows this year, that's an average of like one a week. India have more current pro boxers than Russia,, they have over double the amount of current pro boxers that Ukraine has and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Cuba, Ireland ,Kazakhstan and Belarus COMBINED! and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan COMBINED! ​ In Russia most of the men are at war, or deserting the country. The same goes for Ukraine. Boxing is losing a lot of talent from 201-160 LBS.

Lol it's so easy to debunk this post...boxing is still a relatively new sport in India and the huge rise in professional boxer's must be correlated to the launch of the Super Boxing League in 2017 (FIRST professional boxing league in India - co-founded by Amir Khan). However, after doing some more research, it appears that the Indian Professional Boxing Association (IPBA) was only formed in 2015 itself following a 65 year hiatus from the sport. See below... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian...ng_Association "In India, boxing does not have a large fan base, which is often attributed to the lack of discernible international exposure. However, despite Indian limited success in global championships events, athletes have regularly won medals at the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Since the first national boxing championship in 1950, India has not until 2015 established any platform for professional boxers. After a long wait of 65 Years, India is stepping into Professional Boxing." Therefore, reeling off the fact that India has the 11th most professional boxer's globally is totally MEANINGLESS given that professional boxing has only been established within the last decade in the country following a 65 year break. After all, you can't expect immediate results. Still, as an Indian, I'm proud that we're currently ranked #4 in the IBA's official rankings given that we were #44 just a few years ago. Therefore, it's just a matter of time before the amateur results start trickling through to the professional scene and we produce a world champion and from there the floodgates will open (just like Prince Naseem becoming world champion paved the way for future Yemeni world champions Kid Galahad, Kal Yafai & Sadam Ali or Amir Khan opening the doors for Pakistani's Adam Azim, Hamzah Sheeraz & Shabaz Masoud).​

Crazy, random stat for you: In 1975 Nevada hosted 62 pro boxing events. In 1985 Nevada hosted 45 pro boxing events. In 1995 Nevada hosted 54 pro boxing events. In 2005 Nevada hosted 41 pro boxing events. In 2015 Nevada hosted 26 pro boxing events. In 2023 Nevada hosted 13 pro boxing events. New York state hosted 49 pro boxing events in 2015. In 2023 they hosted 16. Kind of a quiet story in boxing that, my guess is, few are noticing. On the positive side, there has never been a time that I can recall where boxing events are at least streaming in some form or fashion. The reduction on regular television, though, is the lowest that I’ve ever seen it.

Some crazy things that stick out: There are roughly 24,000 active male pro boxers on the planet currently. Several decades ago there were more than that just in the United States. When I was a kid there were more like 10,000 in the U.S. Now there are around 3,300 (average of 66 per state). There are not even close to 200 active male pro boxers in Canada. That’s insane to me.

India! Would love to see an Indian world champ

I get beat up by wy wife. then she order Indian green curry im eating a tack bell bean burrito. so India has a lot of great fighter punjab

Damn, Mexico. I knew Mexico had a lot of boxers, but I didn't know they had almost as many as we do in America. That just shows you how far boxing has fallen here in this country. No way a country like 1/3 or population should have almost as many boxers as us, I don't care how boxing crazy they are.

it's saying 546 today. And They've had 50 pro shows this year, that's an average of like one a week. India have more current pro boxers than Russia,, they have over double the amount of current pro boxers that Ukraine has and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Cuba, Ireland ,Kazakhstan and Belarus COMBINED! and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan COMBINED! ​ Interesting.

And feel free to show where I'm hyping India boxing. I was just saying you seem to have an Interest in the country of India as a whole. I mentioned Tanzania having a large number of boxers but being poor at boxing as well, but you only replied with India.. like it triggered you or something. Anyway, forget it, doesn't matter.

541 Indian boxers......I don't believe it. it's saying 546 today. And They've had 50 pro shows this year, that's an average of like one a week. India have more current pro boxers than Russia,, they have over double the amount of current pro boxers that Ukraine has and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Cuba, Ireland ,Kazakhstan and Belarus COMBINED! and more current pro boxers than Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan COMBINED! ​

LOL you got issues with India or something. I have no dog in that fight. No it was just the most notable thing from the list I did, and I just find it funny, how with India people like you always make some excuses .When it's very clear they can't fight. And on the flipside you clearly have some sort of big interest or connection to India to be talking the way you do. (and it's since been confirmed- cause I just searched you are talking about Indian films, culture and Vijender Singh and other poor boxers, and all sorts in your post history.) And It'd be interesting to talk about Capita in a cricket forum to how Australia's tiny population whoop India at every Cricket World cup at their national sport lol. India underachieve massively at every sport, it's as simple as that.

541 Indian boxers......I don't believe it.

Im surprised Germany has fewer licenced boxers than Australia, boxing is not a big sport in Aus its way down the list behind the ball sports, motor racing etc.

being a success in pro boxing also involves the correct training nutrition etc, im not sure how uptodate gyms are in india with regard to boxing techniques, trainers and sparing partners etc & these guys may have to travel i dont know how far on crappy trains maybe for events maybe these pro boxer are happy just eking out a living doing what they are doing and dont have that much ambition to stepup to the next few levels, could be totally wrong here just guessing lol

And Ukraine have to be considered extremely strong at boxing, considering they have quite a low number of boxers, no pro boxing shows, a war going on since 2014, a very poor country, all their boxers have to fight abroad, and so on. They get nothing given to them on a plate, yet they consistently produce elite talent without making any excuses.!

There's like a billion ppl tho. so what, they've got a shit load of boxers constantly never getting to any decent level. There's constantly regular pro shows in India. There's no excuses. They are completely embarrassingly awful at boxing. I think some people have the misconception and think they only have like about 5 boxers or something lol. And those numbers I listed don't even include the many boxers of Indian descent around the world in places like the UK and Canada, Australia. For them to have never had a single pro world champion ever from India or of Indian descent, in a sport of 17 weight divisions and 4 world champions per weight..... There really is no excuses. They just are completely poor at boxing.

Im assuming you chose the "active" category, which only includes fighters who have boxed in the past 12 months. That leaves out more than half of the PBC stable.......lol

india has more pro boxers than russia lol u dont see much of quite a few countries boxers, i wonder is there something else going on here plus u hear a fair bit about ukraine boxers now maybe theres pro boxers and then there is pro boxers

What's interesting, is that some countries that are very poor at boxing, yet have have a lot of current pro boxers like India (541) and Tanzania (551) Also, some countries like Ukraine are excellent at boxing yet don't have so many boxers (238) And other good at boxing countries like Uzbekistan (198), Cuba (106), Kazakhstan (79), Ireland (70) Belarus have just 23 current boxers, yet have had a few world champions, and have a couple of really good prospects coming up. Proof like in every sport, some people/some nations are good at some things, and some people/some nations are poor at some things. ​