What U.S. State has produced the most champions?

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  • oldgringo
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    #21
    The best fighters have lived, are born, or train in Michigan at some point or another. Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Tommy Hearns, James Toney, Stanley Ketchel, Floyd Mayweather and all of the other great Kronk champions.

    Doesn't get better than that^

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    • DoggHouse
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      #22
      Cali fo sho *****z

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      • GTL
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        #23
        I dunno. Theres alotta world champs that came outta ny.. esp brook and bronx.. gleasons gym is always poppin.. so im not too sure bout other states..
        thats my 2 cents

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        • revs1227
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          #24
          Originally posted by oldgringo
          The best fighters have lived, are born, or train in Michigan at some point or another. Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Tommy Hearns, James Toney, Stanley Ketchel, Floyd Mayweather and all of the other great Kronk champions.

          Doesn't get better than that^
          hmmmm ray robinson =ny im pretty sure

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          • Mike Tyson77
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            #25
            Kentucky had Ali, so that counts as a whole lot.

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            • oldgringo
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              #26
              Originally posted by revs1227
              hmmmm ray robinson =ny im pretty sure
              he was in michigan for awhile if i'm not mistaken. he didn't predominately train and fight there, but still...i'm going to claim him.

              "Dave Clark, once the No. 1 light-heavyweight contender and a Joe Louis stablemate in the late 1930's, remembers when the 8-year-old boy named Walker Smith was brought to the Brewster Gym in Detroit by a trainer named Wesley Davis. ''I don't think Ray ever put the gloves on or even considered being a fighter then,'' the 72-year-old Clark told a visitor to the famed Kronk Gym in Detroit last Thursday. ''He was just a kid in a gym.''

              Clark feels boxing really came into Robinson's life when the boy moved to New York, which Clark insists was at the age of 9, not 12 or 13 as most reports have it."

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              • revs1227
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                #27
                Originally posted by oldgringo
                he was in michigan for awhile if i'm not mistaken. he didn't predominately train and fight there, but still...i'm going to claim him.

                "Dave Clark, once the No. 1 light-heavyweight contender and a Joe Louis stablemate in the late 1930's, remembers when the 8-year-old boy named Walker Smith was brought to the Brewster Gym in Detroit by a trainer named Wesley Davis. ''I don't think Ray ever put the gloves on or even considered being a fighter then,'' the 72-year-old Clark told a visitor to the famed Kronk Gym in Detroit last Thursday. ''He was just a kid in a gym.''

                Clark feels boxing really came into Robinson's life when the boy moved to New York, which Clark insists was at the age of 9, not 12 or 13 as most reports have it."
                thats cool to know .. eay robison story left that out lol ..ever see it it was good .. i didnt know his name wasnt actually ray robinson but it was due 2 the guys trunks he used that he adopted the name lol

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                • Terry A
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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Piggu
                  hahaha oh ****, I got confused. I thought Detroit was in another state. Thanks for reminding me.
                  Oh buddy, I get more confused anymore than almost anybody. I was saying the other day that I knew for a fact that Knoxville was in Kentucky. It's in Tennessee, if I even spelled that right. About the only thing I know a little of is the older fighters.
                  I always wished I was smarter...

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