To busy playing soccer. This content is protected Clearly Sir Beckham would have been an ATG HW champion if not for kicking a bag of wind about.
Don,t forget roman Greenberg.... [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLZIoJEa_g&feature=related[/ame]
Boxing was dominated by Jews and Italians at one time and those guys would fight sometimes twice in a week or more. It put food on the table. A prizefighter lived on every street in NY back then.
Can't think of any recently,except for Greenberg,and Gary Jacobs.Did see a couple of guys at an amateur show last month with the star of David on the trunks.
There arn't as many Jewish as I'd like to see, but considering how few there are of us. It is not too suriprising. The fact that so many Boxers up to the 1940's were Jewish is pretty amzaing. This being said the best known Jewish boxers right now are Yuri Foreman (former WBA 154), Dmitriy Salita (Chalanged for WBA 140) and Ran Nakash Chalanged for WBO 200). The site http://jewishboxing.blogspot.com/ Lists: Mariano Plotinsky Chalanged for WBO 175) and Alexander Frenkel (Curent EBU 200). From what I can tell Frenkel's father is Jewish but not his mother, so if you wan't to nit-pick. The site lists a few others the most intresting is Boyd Melson. Melson is 4 (2) -0-0. http://boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Human:546458
Because back then Jews were struggling in communities around Brooklyn, like Itallians they came to america without much money and as a result boxing was a vehicle for earning cash when there were lacking jobs etc....Now its the Latinos, former soviet states, blacks who dominate boxing for the same reasons, their communities are pretty shitty so they try to make money though fighting
3 out of 4 best jewish (dmitri salita, yuri foreman, roman greenberg,zab judah) boxers are from former USSR .