Irish Boxing

Well done Willie Donoghue Irelands new World Junior champ.

http://www.iaba.ie/donoghue-crowned-world-champion/

 

still buzzing here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdWgCAwioCU

 

scotland,wales, and england have all produced great fighters. i can't remember ever being impressed by an Irish boxer (other than the ability to use their faces to absorb punches)

why is that?

 

tiny island and i am sure they have over the years

lets not beat about the bush the best fighters are black when has america ever produced an amazing non african fighter

all about genetics and african/caribbean is best

 

Andre Ward! Slick and Irish!!!

 

Jim Braddock, Micky Ward, Jimmy McLarnin, Andre Ward, Jim Corbett, George Gardiner, Wayne McCullough, John L. Sullivan, Mickey Walker, Gene Tunney, Jerry Quarry, Jack McAulliffe, Dave McAuley, Barry McGuigan, Steve Collins, Joey Archer, Matthew Macklin, Cassius Clay...

Not too shabby, proportionately speaking.

 

the welsh and scottish boxers i have in mind aren't black. calzaghe, buchanan?

 

Steve Collins comes to mind in recent years..

 

Collins/Calzaghe would have been awesome.

 

Rinty Monaghan
Jack McAuluiffe
Joe Lynch
Tommy Loughran
James Braddock
Jim Corbett
Jimmy Gardner
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Billy Conn
Barry McGuigan
Mickey Ward
Mike/Tommy Gibbons
Jack O'Brien
Johnny Kilbane (Held featherweight Champonship 11 yrs.!)
Mike O'Dowd
John L.Sullivan

 

unless they fight like Lomachenko i don't give a **** how many medals they win in the olympics. there lot of trash fighters winning medals at the olympics.

 

Ugh, I'm going to go stab myself in the eyeball with a dull knife for having forgotten Billy, even with having just rattled off names in a jumble absent minded as they came.

 

you're quite butthurt

as for best white american fighter, well that's too easy. ever heard of willie pep?

hey i'll be the first to admit that there are loads of **** fighters coming out of america right now. ive somewhat fallen out of love for boxing because the scene is so dismal

billy conn, joey archer, all Americans

 

Both produced, albeit indirectly, by Ireland. Your title did not specify.

So you mean specifically boxers whose nationality is the ROI? Or either the ROI or Northern Ireland?

...because then your wording is off then. Those places can produce more boxers than claim nationality in either.

 

anybody who grew up and were trained in boxing in ireland/n. ireland