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  • Don_Jah
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    List of the Countries with the most Current Pro Boxers

    (from Boxrec, on 9th December 2023)


    1. USA 3299

    2. Mexico 3173

    3. Japan 1236

    4. United Kingdom 1058

    5. Argentina 798

    6. Philippines 788

    7. Thailand 699

    8. Colombia 668

    9. Venezuela 659

    10. Tanzania 551

    11. India 541

    12. Russia 483

    13. Australia 464

    14. Germany 442

    15. France 419

    16. South Africa 416

    17. Ghana 345

    18. South Korea 328

    19. Italy 328

    20. Dominican Republic 315


    Last edited by Don_Jah; 12-10-2023, 06:56 PM.
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    What's interesting, is that some countries that are very poor at boxing, yet have have a lot of current pro boxers like India (541) and Tanzania (551)


    Also, some countries like Ukraine are excellent at boxing yet don't have so many boxers (238) And other good at boxing countries like Uzbekistan (198), Cuba (106), Kazakhstan (79), Ireland (70)

    Belarus have just 23 current boxers, yet have had a few world champions, and have a couple of really good prospects coming up.

    Proof like in every sport, some people/some nations are good at some things, and some people/some nations are poor at some things.
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      #3
      india has more pro boxers than russia lol

      u dont see much of quite a few countries boxers, i wonder is there something else going on here

      plus u hear a fair bit about ukraine boxers now

      maybe theres pro boxers and then there is pro boxers

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        #4
        Originally posted by Don_Jah
        What's interesting, is that some countries that are very poor at boxing, yet have have a lot of current pro boxers like India (541) and Tanzania (551)


        Also, some countries like Ukraine are excellent at boxing yet don't have so many boxers (238) And other good at boxing countries like Uzbekistan (198), Cuba (106), Kazakhstan (79), Ireland (70)

        Belarus have just 23 current boxers, yet have had a few world champions, and have a couple of really good prospects coming up.

        Proof like in every sport, some people/some nations are good at some things, and some people/some nations are poor at some things.
        There's like a billion ppl tho.

        Randomly it'd be interesting to see what countries have the most pro boxers per capita.

        Looking at it real quick for a few countries there's 28.5 boxers per million ppl in DR, 25.0 boxers per million ppl in Mexico, 9.9 boxers per million ppl in the US, 9.8 boxers per million ppl in Japan & 0.3 boxers per million ppl in India.

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          #5
          Im assuming you chose the "active" category, which only includes fighters who have boxed in the past 12 months.

          That leaves out more than half of the PBC stable.......lol

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            #6
            Originally posted by Eff Pandas

            There's like a billion ppl tho.
            so what, they've got a **** load of boxers constantly never getting to any decent level. There's constantly regular pro shows in India. There's no excuses. They are completely embarrassingly awful at boxing. I think some people have the misconception and think they only have like about 5 boxers or something lol. And those numbers I listed don't even include the many boxers of Indian descent around the world in places like the UK and Canada, Australia. For them to have never had a single pro world champion ever from India or of Indian descent, in a sport of 17 weight divisions and 4 world champions per weight..... There really is no excuses. They just are completely poor at boxing.
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              And Ukraine have to be considered extremely strong at boxing, considering they have quite a low number of boxers, no pro boxing shows, a war going on since 2014, a very poor country, all their boxers have to fight abroad, and so on. They get nothing given to them on a plate, yet they consistently produce elite talent without making any excuses.!

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                #8
                being a success in pro boxing also involves the correct training nutrition etc, im not sure how uptodate gyms are in india with regard to boxing techniques, trainers and sparing partners etc & these guys may have to travel i dont know how far on crappy trains maybe for events

                maybe these pro boxer are happy just eking out a living doing what they are doing and dont have that much ambition to stepup to the next few levels, could be totally wrong here just guessing lol

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                  #9
                  Im surprised Germany has fewer licenced boxers than Australia, boxing is not a big sport in Aus its way down the list behind the ball sports, motor racing etc.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Don_Jah

                    so what, they've got a **** load of boxers constantly never getting to any decent level. There's constantly regular pro shows in India. There's no excuses. They are completely embarrassingly awful at boxing. I think some people have the misconception and think they only have like about 5 boxers or something lol. And those numbers I listed don't even include the many boxers of Indian descent around the world in places like the UK and Canada. For them to have never had a single pro world champion ever from India or of Indian descent, in a sport of 17 weight divisions and 4 world champions per weight..... There really is no excuses. They just are completely poor at boxing.
                    LOL you got issues with India or something. I have no dog in that fight.

                    I was simply talking about math. If you got 1B ppl here & 10M ppl there having 500 boxers in those places means different things as the per capita figures I posted shows.

                    There are issues with pro boxing & India tho that are relevant. For instance they didn't have pro boxing there for 60ish years til 2015. Its basically a new sport there after the hiatus they had.

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