Whats the Best Boxing City?

[The Surgeon]

Arbroath!!! Produced the best of em all - me!

[Caxcan]

NYC and Mexico city have both produced alot of great fighters but they also have really huge populations of 8+ million people. Los Mochis, Mex on the other hand has recently produced some good fighters for a city of around 230,000.

Hugo Cazares
Fernando Montiel
Humberto Soto
Jorge Arce

[RL_GMA]

Philly & NY

[mspiegelo]

mexico d.f

Rafael Marquez
Edgar Sosa
Johnny Gonzales
Martin Honorio
Marco Antonio Barrera
Israel Vasquez
Juan Manuel Marquez
Martin Castillo to name a few

tijuana

Erik Morales
Antonio Margarito
Alejandro El Terra Garcia
Ricardo Vargas
Juan Carlos Burgos
Cristobal Cruz
Hector Velasquez
Humberto Soto to name a few


easily both over Ny and philly

easily? wow- thats ludicrous dude. nyc kills that list, though tijuana and mc. are holding it down for contemporary times

NYC without any doubts is the Mecca of boxing...

fighters either born/grew up/learned how to fight in NYC:

Ray Robinson #1 on ESPN's ATG List
Benny leanord #7 ATG
Gene Tunney #16 ATG
Tony Canzoneri #21 ATG
Barney Ross #22 ATG
Jake Lamotta #28 ATG
Emile Griffith #34 ATG
Mike Tyson #50 ATG

Carlos Ortiz
Carmen Basilio
Floyd Patterson
Hector Camacho
Gerry Cooney
Carl "the truth" Williams
Mark Breland
Rid**** Bowe
Zab Judah
Kevin Kelly
Micheal Moorer


And Im sure I've missed quite a few others... No other city can even come close let alone compare...

some other dudes from nyc off the top of my head
Paulie Malignaggi, Joshua Clottey (Ghanna but boxes out of the Bronx), luis collazo, junior jones, dmitry salita, darling jiminez, danny jacobs, mean joe greene, shannon 'the cannon' briggs, jaidon codrington, travis simms, and countless others

nyc obviously is the top city.

Philly can't really compare with nyc, but while it is less impressive on the grand scale, it has some serious soul. part of the lack of success comes from the harshness of training in philly. you'll see a cat with like 10 fights with tons of scar tissue in their face. the sparring is brutal. heres an abbreviated list of champs, hof'ers and notable fighters from...

Bernard Hopkins - best middleweight of all time (imo)
Joe Frazier (top 10 heavies of all time- won "The fight of the CENTURY" over "THE GREATEST")
Meldrick Taylor
Sonny Liston - relocated to philly to evade arrest and stayed there. became champion while training and living in PHILLY!
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - technically from Camden, but trained in philly
Jeff Chandler
mathew saad muhammad
joey giardello
Tommy Loughran
Bobby Watts (beat Hagler)
Willie 'the worm' monroe (beat hagler)
David Reid
Benny Bass
Law Tendler
tim witherspoon
gil turner
Jimmy young - ("the man who gave ali a boxing lesson" - lost a contreversial ud to him. RING magazine writer Lester Bromberg scored the fight 11 rounds to 4 for Jimmy Young. Bromberg called the official decision "a travesty of a decision."beat foreman and beat lyle twice)

some of the current prospects
teon kennedy
mike jones
chazz Witherspoon
rock allen

what!

mad props to detroit too!

[mspiegelo]

easily? wow- thats ludicrous dude. nyc kills that list, though tijuana and mc. are holding it down for contemporary times



some other dudes from nyc off the top of my head
Paulie Malignaggi, Joshua Clottey (Ghanna but boxes out of the Bronx), luis collazo, junior jones, dmitry salita, darling jiminez, danny jacobs, mean joe greene, jaidon codrington, travis simms, and countless others

nyc obviously is the top city.

Philly can't really compare with nyc, but while it is less impressive on the grand scale, it has some serious soul. part of the lack of success comes from the harshness of training in philly. you'll see a cat with like 10 fights with tons of scar tissue in their face. the sparring is brutal. heres an abbreviated list of champs, hof'ers and notable fighters from...

Bernard Hopkins - best middleweight of all time (imo)
Joe Frazier (top 10 heavies of all time- won "The fight of the CENTURY" over "THE GREATEST")
Meldrick Taylor
Sonny Liston - relocated to philly to evade arrest and stayed there. became champion while training and living in PHILLY!
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - technically from Camden, but trained in philly
Jeff Chandler
mathew saad muhammad
joey giardello
Tommy Loughran
Bobby Watts (beat Hagler)
Willie 'the worm' monroe (beat hagler)
David Reid
Benny Bass
Law Tendler
tim witherspoon
gil turner
Jimmy young - ("the man who gave ali a boxing lesson" - lost a contreversial ud to him. RING magazine writer Lester Bromberg scored the fight 11 rounds to 4 for Jimmy Young. Bromberg called the official decision "a travesty of a decision."beat foreman and beat lyle twice)

some of the current prospects
teon kennedy
mike jones
chazz Witherspoon
rock allen

what!

mad props to detroit too!

bumpskies..... booyah

[Tha_Greatest]

easily? wow- thats ludicrous dude. nyc kills that list, though tijuana and mc. are holding it down for contemporary times



some other dudes from nyc off the top of my head
Paulie Malignaggi, Joshua Clottey (Ghanna but boxes out of the Bronx), luis collazo, junior jones, dmitry salita, darling jiminez, danny jacobs, mean joe greene, shannon 'the cannon' briggs, jaidon codrington, travis simms, and countless others

nyc obviously is the top city.

Philly can't really compare with nyc, but while it is less impressive on the grand scale, it has some serious soul. part of the lack of success comes from the harshness of training in philly. you'll see a cat with like 10 fights with tons of scar tissue in their face. the sparring is brutal. heres an abbreviated list of champs, hof'ers and notable fighters from...

Bernard Hopkins - best middleweight of all time (imo)
Joe Frazier (top 10 heavies of all time- won "The fight of the CENTURY" over "THE GREATEST")
Meldrick Taylor
Sonny Liston - relocated to philly to evade arrest and stayed there. became champion while training and living in PHILLY!
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - technically from Camden, but trained in philly
Jeff Chandler
mathew saad muhammad
joey giardello
Tommy Loughran
Bobby Watts (beat Hagler)
Willie 'the worm' monroe (beat hagler)
David Reid
Benny Bass
Law Tendler
tim witherspoon
gil turner
Jimmy young - ("the man who gave ali a boxing lesson" - lost a contreversial ud to him. RING magazine writer Lester Bromberg scored the fight 11 rounds to 4 for Jimmy Young. Bromberg called the official decision "a travesty of a decision."beat foreman and beat lyle twice)

some of the current prospects
teon kennedy
mike jones
chazz Witherspoon
rock allen

what!

mad props to detroit too!

these are not bunch of journeymen and old guys retired that you basically saw fight somebody else so you stick him on, your prospects are prospects that have been prospects for ages and aint looking too good for them like allen, my list is mostley active real good champs , prospects that are amounting to something and guy at least this era, basically your list is relocation, relococation, beat a popular guy with ()s,and a paragraph to make your list look bigger but that list is to be shortened, the the NY one too

[warp1432]

bumpskies..... booyah

How did you forget Jack O Brian and Bennie Briscoe?

[Mr. Philadel]

PHILLY

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