Best white boxers?

[Bummy Davis]

For Boxing Abilty Dont Leave Out Irish Joey Archer

[mr. magoo]

Steve Zouski is the best white fighter of all time. No need to even make a list.

[Bad_Intentions]

Originally Posted by Flabby Gut

Calzaghe, Kessler, Klitschko, De La Hoya, Hatton, Bute, Povetkim, Malianggi, Pavlik, Lee, Duddy, Diaconu

de la hoya is not white.

[brooklyn1550]

Originally Posted by mr. magoo

Steve Zouski is the best white fighter of all time. No need to even make a list.

Steve was a nice guy. I worked with him once on a roof in Brockton when I was an amateur. Both of us trained with Goody and Pat.

[Street Lethal]

Originally Posted by cross_trainer

Fair enough, although I'd consider "best Asian fighter" to be more of a geographical question unless it referred to Asians as a race.

In any event, I don't think it's possible to delete this thread, since "great white hopes" and similar silliness have always existed in boxing.

I know. I wasn't really thinking we should. I was just trying to find a dramatic protest. Snuff it came out.

You can see where it went, though. Now people are arguing over whether de la Hoya is white.

For their information, people who believe in race and blood and all that bullshit say that white Hispanic is white. Hispanic is ethnic not racial. Good example is Ricky Ricardo. So de la Hoya is white.

[Bad_Intentions]

Originally Posted by Flabby Gut

De La Hoya has a lot of spanish blood. His mother was very light skinned. Oscar seems to have taken after her more than his dad. His dad has the more aztec look - darker skin. The Spanish, Basque, Irish, Scotch, Welsh are related. They are celtic people. Of course the Moors were in Spain centuries ago which is why you see a lot of more swarthy Spanish with black hair and olive skin. Also, the black Irish (Irish people with dark hair) could have roots from Spain as thousands of sailors from the Spanish armada stayed and hid in Ireland from the British. I don't consider Italians to be latino as Dudenum pointed out. I am 1/2 Italian myself and I always thought of Italians as white europeans. Not that there is anything wrong with being latino of course.

even if he's mixed with spanish blood or any european blood, many whites from america label him as hispanic, and not WHITE.

[MrSmall]

I should have said light-skinned.
Anyway.
It's strange - people either rate the good fighters of today up there, or pre-60.

[janitor]

Thext up is a thread on who were the greatest fighters with ginger hair.

[McGrain]

Originally Posted by janitor

Thext up is a thread on who were the greatest fighters with ginger hair.

There can be only one.

Dmille, nice list but you left of Fritzie Zivic.

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by janitor

Thext up is a thread on who were the greatest fighters with ginger hair.

BOB FITZSIMMONS TAKES THIS ONE!



Using the posters criteria Greb
Pep
Leonard
Wilde
Loughran
Conn
Jofre
Duran
Fitzsimmons
Dempsey
Ross
Walker
Ketchel
Canzoneri
Driscoll
Attell
Lynch
Mclarnin
Mcgovern
Griffo
Ryan

[Bad_Intentions]

Originally Posted by Flabby Gut

You are absolutely right.

and according to major historians, spain was controlled by the moors (african-muslims) for 700 years.. so you know lol

[Street Lethal]

Originally Posted by Bad_Intentions

even if he's mixed with spanish blood or any european blood, many whites from america label him as hispanic, and not WHITE.

Are you an American? Because in America, de la Hoya is a white Hispanic, which means that while racially he's white, ethnically he's Hispanic.

You are confusing race and ethnicity, Bad Intentions. White Hispanics are white, nonwhite Hispanics are black.

[Cobra33]

Paul Spadafora
Ken Buchanan
Brian Mitchell
Barney Ross
Benny Leonard
Clarence Adams
Lou Ambers
Greg Haugen

[Jersey Joe]

1 Duran
2 Leonard
3 Monzon
4 Marciano
5 Greb
6 Tunney
7 Pep
8 Chavez
9 Dempsey
10 Wilde

[Jersey Joe]

Originally Posted by Flabby Gut

De La Hoya has a lot of spanish blood. His mother was very light skinned. Oscar seems to have taken after her more than his dad. His dad has the more aztec look - darker skin. The Spanish, Basque, Irish, Scotch, Welsh are related. They are celtic people. Of course the Moors were in Spain centuries ago which is why you see a lot of more swarthy Spanish with black hair and olive skin. Also, the black Irish (Irish people with dark hair) could have roots from Spain as thousands of sailors from the Spanish armada stayed and hid in Ireland from the British. I don't consider Italians to be latino as Dudenum pointed out. I am 1/2 Italian myself and I always thought of Italians as white europeans. Not that there is anything wrong with being latino of course.

Latino means Latin, the language of the ROmans i.e. Italians.

Same with "hispanic" - from Spain.

I don't know too many people who think Spanish & Italian people are not white.

Anyway, this just goes to show how silly the whole racial categories are. Joe Louis had fairly light skin and yet he's called "black". That tells me either everyone in America suffers from colour-blindness, or that people are more obsessed with totally artificial categories than how someone actually looks.