who were the best canuck fighters

[rightsideup]

sam langford
george chuvalo
lennox lewis
tommy burns
art hafey
clyde grey
donnie lalonde
earl walls
trevor berbick
razor rudock

any others?

[Scott9945]

sam langford
george chuvalo
lennox lewis
tommy burns
art hafey
clyde grey
donnie lalonde
earl walls
trevor berbick
razor rudock

any others?

If you're looking to expand, you could add the Hiltons, Eric Lucas, and Alcine.

[tennesseeboy]

Hilton's definitely should be there.

[rightsideup]

your right my bad

[mehoe]

Would Bute count since he is a Canadian citizen?
Pascal also represented Canada during the Olympics.

[Panamaniac]

I didn't realize there were that many Canadian fighters of note. I do recall, however, the first one I ever heard of: George "The Human Punching Bag" Chuvalo, so dubbed due to the punishment he absorbed from Muhammad Ali while going the distance in two fights. Sort of reminded me of Jake LaMotta (vs Robinson), except he never got busted-up as badly.

[danthepoetman]

sam langford
george chuvalo
lennox lewis
tommy burns
art hafey
clyde grey
donnie lalonde
earl walls
trevor berbick
razor rudock

any others?

That’s a great list.
Sam Langford, obviously the number one. Tommy Burns’ real name was Noah Brousseau, and he was from southern Ontario. You also absolutely have to add former light heavyweight champion of the 20s and hall of famers, Jack Delaney, who’s real name was Ovila Chapdelaine, and Johnny Coulon, a bantamweight who defended his world title 13 times at the beginning of the 20th century. There’s also former middleweight champion of the world Lou Brouillard.
You can’t possibly forget to mention Yvon Durelle, the light heavyweight contender who gave such a great championship fight to Archie Moore, one of the best fight in the division’s history.
As Scott9945 mentioned, Éric Lucas should have a little place in there as well, both Matthew and Davey Hilton, as well as Joachim Alcine and Jean Pascal.
Good welterweight contender of the 70s, Donato Paduano, could be mentioned. There’s also Laurent Dauthuile, a Frenchman fighting out of Montreal, who came a few seconds from taking the middleweight title away from Jake LaMotta. Johnny Greco, a good lightweight contender who owned victories over Bob Montgomery, Beau Jack, Fredie Archer and Tony Janiro. Armand Savoie, who decisioned then lightweight champion Jimmy Carter in a non-title 10 rounder. Another good lightweight contender of the 40s, Dave Castilloux…
Maybe (I say “maybe”) former contenders Gaetan Hart and Nicky Furlano). You might also want indeed to include to the group both Razor Ruddock and Trevor Berbick, who fought out of Canada, of course Lucian Bute, then Leonard Dorin and Adrian Diaconu. Light heavyweight of the 70s-early 80s, Gary Summerhays lost to all the best of this historically amazing division, but always gave a good account of himself. Robert Cléroux was Canada's heavyweight champion for a while, and owns a couple of wins over Chuvalo and others.
I’m sure some more slip my mind…

[MasterODisaster]

For the love of God, have we already forgotten the downed warrior...Arturo "Thunder" Gatti???? I would like to think that he holds a place above the Dorin's and Bute's of Canada at least right now!!!!

[Scott9945]

For the love of God, have we already forgotten the downed warrior...Arturo "Thunder" Gatti???? I would like to think that he holds a place above the Dorin's and Bute's of Canada at least right now!!!!

Gatti was born in Italy, lived in New Jersey, and fought only once in Canada. So it seems like a reach.

[MasterODisaster]

You are joking right???

You do realize that he grew up in Canada, started out boxing in CANADA, even tried to make the CANADIAN Olympic team for boxing right???? He was a member of the Canadian National team as well...LOL!

I f you think he isn't a Canadian fighter, you are in the VAST MINORITY my man..lOL!!!

One final question, where do most of his family reside if he wasn't a Canadian?

I find it somewhat insulting for you or anyone else to TRY and say he wasn't a Canadian! He most certainly was, and was proud of it, and so are his family that STILL live in Montreal to this day!!!!!!!!!