Irleland produce the best combat sports athletes per capita?

[jmrf4435]

Per capita? A population of 4 million has mcgregor, Frampton, Fury, and saunders all as champions.

Most recently, Frampton moved up in weight to snatch a title and mcgregor is the second man in UFC history is doing the same at 170.

kinda insane

[jmrf4435]

Ireland* typo

[daggum]

no because fury, frampton, and saunders don't count towards their 4.5 million population since frampton is from northern ireland not ireland and fury and saunders are from england.

[1g5a22]

Wow! I had no idea Hertfordshire & Manchester were in Ireland.

3 of those fighters represent the United Kingdom.

LOL Dense or what..

If you are arguing heritage then Frampton is an English name, Saunders an English/Scottish name & Fury of French/Norman origin. Not really Irish at all hahahahaha

By the way. Ireland is a land mass of TWO separate countries. Just like GB is 3.

[JFalu]

Welp... that settles that

[NEETzsche]

historically speaking, i think wales may be even better than ireland per capita

edit: and puerto rico, of course

[stellen]

Irelands achievements in the combat sports at the olympics has blown me away.

[boliodogs]

That is a lot of important champions for a country of only 4 million people. The Irish have always been known as fighters and they are very good at fighting.

[boliodogs]

I live in the USA so I don't know anything about who is Irish and who isn't Irish. Don't Fury, Frampton, Saunders and McGregor all claim to be Irish? They should know if they are Irish or not.