How come there has never been a significant ASIAN champion?

[Silencers]

Chinese are not allowed to box professionally.....
Japanese and Koreans are not into boxing bigtime unlike karate, judo or taekwondo....




which made me wonder now.....how come there arent any Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi boxer champions? hmm.....

They are now, Dino Duva just signed a deal to work with the Chinese Boxing Federation to develop China's amateur boxers into pros. We could see a lot more Chinese boxers fighting professionally in the near future.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/box...ory?id=4413724

Anyways, there have been a lot of top class Asian boxers throughout history. Just because they're small doesn't mean they can't fight.

[Fights]

Ceferino Garcia (welterweight/ middleweight) - Filipino
100 wins (65 KOs), 27 losses, 9 draws.
Memorable fights: Lost on decision to and also held the immortal Henry Armstrong to a draw., in two encounters.

Credited with inventing the "Bolo Punch", now illegal.


Pancho Villa-(Fly/ Bantam) - Filipino

Died at the age of 23, soon after facing Jimmy McLarnin with a swollen jaw, an infected tooth having been extracted just hours before he climbed the ring.

Won the world fly title from Jimmy Wilde at the Polo Grounds in 1923. Wilde had only two losses going into the fight.


Fighting Harada (Fly/Bantam/Feather) Japanese

Won the WBA Fly title from Pone Kingpetch of Thailand by TKO11.


Gabriel "Flash" Elorde (Jr. Lightweight) - Filipino

Acknowledged as the first, widely recognized, Jr. Lightweight world title holder (the division had just been created) after trashing Harold Gomes.


Khaosai Galaxy (Bantamweight) - Thailander

Known as the Thai Tyson, Galaxy dominated the junior bantamweight division from 1984 until his retirement in 1991. He defended the title 19 times (16 KO). He ended his career with a record of 50-1 (44 KO).

[Drunken Cat]

Chinese are not allowed to box professionally.....
Japanese and Koreans are not into boxing bigtime unlike karate, judo or taekwondo....




which made me wonder now.....how come there arent any Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi boxer champions? hmm.....

That's not true anymore. Pro boxing in China is in its infancy though.