Best Boxers by Country

[Quercusalba]

This may have been done before, but I couldn't find it, so here goes.

Who is the best pound-for-pound boxer from their respective country?

i.e. The best boxer from [insert country] is [insert boxer].

Lets keep this to national origin rather than race/ethnicity. For example, you may think Willie Pep and Tony Zale are the best Italian and Polish boxers respectively, but you'll have to consider them American boxers as they were born in the U.S.

Some countries will be easy, others not so much...

I'll get it started.

Nigeria --- **** Tiger --- the man would have been a terror in any era.

Sweden --- Ingemar Johansson --- not a great heavyweight champ, but the only one to come out of Sweden. Maybe the only world champ in any weight class from Sweden (correct me if I'm wrong)

Pick a country or two and have at it.

[NChristo-]

Argentina-
Carlos Monzon
Nicolinno Locche
Pascual Perez

Cuba -
Jose Napoles
Kid Chocolate
Kid Gavilan

France-
Marcel Cerdan
Marcel Thil
Georges Carpentier

Puerto Rico
Carlos Ortiz
Wilfred Benitez
Wilfredo Gomez

Scotland-
Benny Lynch
Ken Buchanan

Italy-
Duilio Loi
Nino Benvenuti

Nicaragua-
Alexis Arguello
Roman Gonzalez

Thailand-
Khaosai Galaxy
Pone Kingpetch
Pongsalek Wonjongkam

Ghana-
Azumah Nelson

Australia-
Jeff Fenech
Les Darcy
Lionel Rose

Canada-
Sam Langford
George Dixon

Denmark-
Battling Nelson

[Marchegiano]

**** that's hard.

Poland - Michalczewski Respect to Quercusalba for turning me onto this great talent.

Wales- Calzaghe(? I mean born in london but everyone demands I think of him as welsh so I dunno)

Ireland- Sharkey

England- Fitz

Morocco - James Wharton (BK, I cheat)

Ukraine - Wlad

Australia - Tszyu

Barbados - Gans or Walcott...I really dunno.

Bulgaria - Pulev

Venezuela - Valero

Sweden - Johansson

Russia - Povetkin, maybe Kovalev though

NZ - Tua, could be swayed to Parker

Mexico - JMM - JCC

Philippines - Pac

Germany - Ottke

Denmark - Kessler

Kazakhstan - 3G

Jamaica - McCallum

Latvia - Briedis

Macao - Kuok

Syria - Charr


Okay, not that hard because most these places I only know of one or two fighters.

[Quercusalba]

Argentina-
Carlos Monzon
Nicolinno Locche
Pascual Perez

Cuba -
Jose Napoles
Kid Chocolate
Kid Gavilan

France-
Marcel Cerdan
Marcel Thil
Georges Carpentier

Puerto Rico
Carlos Ortiz
Wilfred Benitez
Wilfredo Gomez

Scotland-
Benny Lynch
Ken Buchanan

Italy-
Duilio Loi
Nino Benvenuti

Nicaragua-
Alexis Arguello
Roman Gonzalez

Thailand-
Khaosai Galaxy
Pone Kingpetch
Pongsalek Wonjongkam

Ghana-
Azumah Nelson

Australia-
Jeff Fenech
Les Darcy
Lionel Rose

Canada-
Sam Langford
George Dixon

Denmark-
Battling Nelson

I dig it. Any thoughts on Hector Camacho for Puerto Rico? Primo Carnera for Italy?

[Quercusalba]

**** that's hard.

Poland - Michalczewski Respect to Quercusalba for turning me onto this great talent.

Wales- Calzaghe(? I mean born in london but everyone demands I think of him as welsh so I dunno)

Ireland- Sharkey

England- Fitz

Morocco - James Wharton (BK, I cheat)

Ukraine - Wlad

Australia - Tszyu

Barbados - Gans or Walcott...I really dunno.

Bulgaria - Pulev

Venezuela - Valero

Sweden - Johansson

Russia - Povetkin, maybe Kovalev though

NZ - Tua, could be swayed to Parker

Mexico - JMM - JCC

Philippines - Pac

Germany - Ottke

Denmark - Kessler

Kazakhstan - 3G

Jamaica - McCallum

Latvia - Briedis

Macao - Kuok

Syria - Charr


Okay, not that hard because most these places I only know of one or two fighters.

I'm glad to hear you've given Michalczewski a look. The guy was legit, and I agree he's the best from Poland (with all due respect to Tomasz Adamek).

Wlad ahead of Vitali, eh? I know Wlad has the better resume, but for me Vitali was the better, tougher fighter. When it is all said and done, I think Usyk will be the top guy from Ukraine, but we shall see.

Ottke over Schmelling --- There's definitely something to be said for Ottke's unblemished record, but I gotta go Schmelling. This opinion is admittedly based on a single win, but he is the only guy to beat a prime Joe Louis, and he beat him soundly at that.

[Marchegiano]

I'm glad to hear you've given Michalczewski a look. The guy was legit, and I agree he's the best from Poland (with all due respect to Tomasz Adamek).

Wlad ahead of Vitali, eh? I know Wlad has the better resume, but for me Vitali was the better, tougher fighter. When it is all said and done, I think Usyk will be the top guy from Ukraine, but we shall see.

Ottke over Schmelling --- There's definitely something to be said for Ottke's unblemished record, but I gotta go Schmelling. This opinion is admittedly based on a single win, but he is the only guy to beat a prime Joe Louis, and he beat him soundly at that.

You''l get no argument out of me bud. I 100% agree.

They were hard choices.

[DeeMoney]

Panama- Duran
Canada- Langford


I'll take Schmelling over Ottke, but then again I'd take almost anyone over Ottke. You can say he never lost, but that was the most rigged, protected record in modern history. He jabbed, ran, and was gifted wins. He had the ref protect him, he made vegas look like a bastion of righteousness and fairness.

[The Old LefHook]

Nova Scotia is a real tossup between the tar baby and the toy tiger. Co-rulers.

[NChristo-]

Ukraine - Kid Kaplan, Vasyl Lomachenko, Klitschko brothers
Kazakhstan - Vasily Jirov, Gennady Golovkin
Colombia - Antonio Cervantes
****** Islands - Emile Griffith
Barbados - Barbados Joe Walcott
Wales - Jimmy Wilde, Freddie Welsh
Ireland - Jimmy McClarnin
Spain - Jose Legra
Brazil - Eder Jofre
Japan - Fighting Harada
South Korea - Jung Koo Chang, Sun Kil-Moon, Myung Woo Yuh

I dig it. Any thoughts on Hector Camacho for Puerto Rico? Primo Carnera for Italy?

Macho was an exceptional talent of course but his resume falls short of those named, Primo's a league below Loi and Benvenuti.

[Marchegiano]

Ukraine - Kid Kaplan, Vasyl Lomachenko, Klitschko brothers
Kazakhstan - Vasily Jirov, Gennady Golovkin
Colombia - Antonio Cervantes
****** Islands - Emile Griffith
Barbados - Barbados Joe Walcott
Wales - Jimmy Wilde, Freddie Welsh
Ireland - Jimmy McClarnin
Spain - Jose Legra
Brazil - Eder Jofre
Japan - Fighting Harada
South Korea - Jung Koo Chang, Sun Kil-Moon, Myung Woo Yuh



Macho was an exceptional talent of course but his resume falls short of those named, Primo's a league below Loi and Benvenuti.

Just curious because I had a really hard time picking between them, how did you end on Walcott over Gans?