The greatest fighters come from Michigan

[Xplosivo]

James Toney
Thomas Hearns
Floyd Mayweather
Sugar Ray Robinson
Joe Louis
Stanley Ketchel

[Spacey1991]

James Toney
Thomas Hearns
Floyd Mayweather
Sugar Ray Robinson

all of them have been world champions more than 4 times, like Roger Mayweather said.

It is a place that generates a lot of good fighters I gotta admit.

Also, was SRR definitley from Michigan... cause when I read about him they said Detroit or something, I think they said there was confusion of where he was born.

[Bhopreign]

Robinson was born in Georgia. Hearns was born in Tennessee.

[catalinul]

Chris Byrd is from Michigan right?From Flint?

I could be wrong though.

[Spacey1991]

Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in either Ailey, Georgia, (according to his birth certificate) — or Detroit, Michigan, (according to his autobiography),[1] to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson

[Ether]

2pac was born in NYC, but represents/claims L.A for many reasons.


As for Spacey1991,

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=303244

[Shadows]

I believe SRR was born in Georgia, started boxing in Detriot, but didn't start taking it seriously until he arrived in Harlem.

[Xplosivo]

Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in either Ailey, Georgia, (according to his birth certificate) — or Detroit, Michigan, (according to his autobiography),[1] to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Robinson

ray robinson was born in detroit, and also joe louis lived in michigan most of his life but wasnt born there.


Robinson, Sugar Ray (1921–1989), professional boxer. World welterweight champion and five times world middleweight champion, bon vivant, stylish dresser, night club owner, believed by many to be pound-for-pound the best boxer in the history of the sport, Sugar Ray Robinson, more than any other black public figure between World War II and the 1960s, epitomized black masculinity and the cool. He was unquestionably the most admired black male among African American males in the 1950s.

Born Walker Smith in Detroit on 3 May 1921, he borrowed the amateur card of a friend, Ray Robinson, and was known under that name for the rest of his life. “Sugar” was the signifying acknowledgment of the refulgence of his grace and overall athletic ability.

http://www.answers.com/topic/sugar-ray-robinson

[MANGLER]

Has mos def turned out some gr8 fighters.

[Ryn0]

Robinson was born in Georgia. Hearns was born in Tennessee.

Yeah but I assume Hearns was taught how to box in Detroit and considered it his hometown hence the "Motor City Cobra" name.