Best white American boxers ever?

[Cleto_Reyes]

the white hope

[DinoCop]

Looks like you need 'nother Michael Jackson guy.

[SugarRayCurtain]

are white americans just too soft for boxing?

[New England]

Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Jack Dempsey, Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchel, Jim Jeffries, Benny Leonard

kickstarting the thread right here ^

danny lopez
ad wolgast
max baer
micky walker
jake lamotta

[Scipio2009]

And yet, I have a difficult time taking those seriously, as they boxed before black people started taking over and took boxing to a new level. The preblack boxing era must be the weakest era ever.

Fair enough. Wiilie Pep, Rocky Marciano, Joey Giardello, Billy Conn, Mike Gibbons, Gene Fullmer, and Joe Maxim are in that next group, and even then those guys only were fighting in the 40s/50s.

Keep things to the "WBC era" (any fighter who could've won a WBC belt, which was founded in '63), and the best white fighter, according to BoxRec, was Kelley Pavlik.

[buge]

Most White Americans stopped boxing around the time you claim Blacks started taking over the sport though. Whites left the inner cities where the boxing gyms were/are. Regardless, it's a poor man's game.

Blacks boxed in the 30s-50s. The weakest boxing era ever was the 70s-80s ... pretty much no White Americans boxing, basically no Europeans, no (native) Africans, no Asians, etc.

[kilojay505]

Tom McNeeley check out his fight agaist Patterson for the HW title
also is son Peter McNeeley check out the damage he does against Tyson

[j.razor]

Harry Greb is arguably the second greatest fighter to ever put on a pair of gloves p4p, and a case can be made for first. Shut up.

I'll shut up if you come with some facts...harry greb??? is that all you got? Lmmfao! Stop please just stop. that dude was garbage!

[intoccabile]

I'll shut up if you come with some facts...harry greb??? is that all you got? Lmmfao! Stop please just stop. that dude was garbage!

Enlighten me on how he was garbage, please.

[A.K]

Why are there no good white American boxers today except Algieri and Smith?

Algeiri good? Lmaoo he's not even a boxer

Smith jr has the power but is sloppy as hell kov and ward would have a field day with him.

There is no good white American fighters and there hasn't in quite some time.