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

[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.

Santiago, Cuba
Jose Napoles
Florentino Fernandez
Diosbelys Hurtado

[mickey malone]

Okinawa, Japan

Yasustasune Uehara : super-feather
Katsuo Tokashiki : light-fly
Jiro Watanabe : super-fly
Yoko Gushiken : light-fly

were all world champions..

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Rinty Monaghan
Ray Close
Eamonn Magee

[mickey malone]

Grand Rapids Michigan.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Tony Tucker
Buster Mathis

Stanley Ketchell ?

[mickey malone]

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.

Heck of a lot of fighters from Pittsburgh..

You could also add

Fritzie Zivic
Teddy Yarosz
Frank Moran
Tony Marino
Frank Klaus

I believe all apart from Moran, were world champs..

[JAB5239]

Heck of a lot of fighters from Pittsburgh..

You could also add

Fritzie Zivic
Teddy Yarosz
Frank Moran
Tony Marino
Frank Klaus

I believe all apart from Moran, were world champs..

Yeah Pittsburgh has had its fair share of great fighters. Not sure I'd rank these guys ahead of the 3 mentioned, but its a nice addition. Thanks Mic.

[1SILVA]

Yeah Pittsburgh has had its fair share of great fighters. Not sure I'd rank these guys ahead of the 3 mentioned, but its a nice addition. Thanks Mic.

Youngstown, Ohio
Ray Mancini
Kelly Pavlik
Harry Arroyo

[CarlosG815]

Philly

Joe Harris
Bennie Briscoe
Joe Frazier

Frazier has a gym in Philly but he's not from there.

You can't leave out Meldrick Taylor from Philly. He was great.

[oldgringo]

Okinawa, Japan

Yasustasune Uehara : super-feather
Katsuo Tokashiki : light-fly
Jiro Watanabe : super-fly
Yoko Gushiken : light-fly

were all world champions..

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Rinty Monaghan
Ray Close
Eamonn Magee

Wayne McCullough??

[oldgringo]

Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Carlos De Leon
Wilfredo Vazquez
Juan Manuel Lopez

[mickey malone]

Wayne McCullough??

You'd already mentioned him alongside McGuigan and McAuley, both of whom were born just outside of Belfast.. McGuigan was from Clones, and McAuley from Larne..