Most Travelled Fighters.

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  1. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?! Full Member

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    Just been looking through Joe Bugner's record and noticed he fought Ali in Malaysia. I then went through Ali's record and noticed that he has fought in;

    1.U.S.A
    2.Canada x 2
    3.England x 3
    4.Germany x 2
    5.Switzerland
    6.Japan
    7.Ireland
    8.Indonesia
    9.Congo
    10.Malaysia
    11.Philippines
    12.Puerto Rico
    13.Bahama's

    Out of 61 fights Ali fought outside U.S 16 times.

    Is there any boxers who have a higher percentage? (Excluding Mexican's in America I suppose who will trounce this.)
     
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  2. turbotime

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    Ward left his hometown and went to Vegas to train at Mayweather's boxing club. Props
     
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  3. Jordan_Davies

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    Eubank was well travelled himself although no where near as Ali, he did spend a lot of his early career in the US

    1. USA x5
    2. England
    3. Ireland x2
    4. Dubai
    5. Germany
    6. Egypt
    7. South Africa
    8. Portugal
    9. Wales
     
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  4. Jordan_Davies

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    Also Danny Williams often travelled abroad in his career

    1. England
    2. USA
    3. Ireland
    4. Wales
    5. Scotland
    6. Germany
    7. Spain
    8. Sweeden
    9. Switzerland
     
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  5. rocky1

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    Winky Wright

    Luxembourg x1
    Monaco x1
    South Africa x1
    Argentina x1
    UK x3
    France x 12
    Germany x1

    20 of 58 fights on foreign soil that's not bad going.
     
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  6. Uncle Roger

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    Floyd Mayweather comes to mind.


    A true globetrotter.
     
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  7. rocky1

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    Ahhhh the well known Lithuanian heavyweight how could I forget him.
     
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  8. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Do You Feel Lucky, Punk?! Full Member

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    Good shout. This is pretty much 1 in 3 I don't think this will be beating my another American.
     
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  9. Juiceboxbiotch

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    Sugar Ray Robinson

    Mexico x1
    Jamaica x1
    Italy x2
    France x12 <--
    UK x3
    Belgium x4
    Canada x1
    Austria x1
    Spain x1
    Germany x2
    Switzerland x2
    Dominican Republic x1

    31 of 198 fights... And that doesn't count the time he fought in Hawaii (a new state at the time but clearly not anywhere close to Robinson's "home town"). Of course, he fought almost everywhere else in the U.S. other than Georgia.
     
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  10. Clint Eastwood

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    Lennox Lewis fought 44 fights in total with 26 away from England.
     
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  11. assasin

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    i was going to say lennox as well.
     
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  12. Juiceboxbiotch

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    Naaaah. Lennox Lewis doesn't deserve a mention here IMO. He fought in a total of 5 different countries.. He only had 3 fights total outside the UK or the U.S... 1 in Ireland (counts as U.K.?), 1 in South Africa, 1 in Canada (where he has citizenship).

    Nahh.. Not that well traveled. He basically stayed in his "bread and butter" countries where he was a proven draw.

    Now tell me WTF Ali was doing fighting in Indonesia and Malaysia... and Philippines..?
     
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    kotelnik
     
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    chop chop
     
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