Why Has Scotland Never Had a Heavyweight?

We have one Big Gary Cornish AKA the Highlander 16 and 0 with 8 KOs

 

This is a good starting point. They don't have a big pool to draw from.

I think Luther McCarty was half Scottish half native American Indian.

 

only 2 main cities really in a country that outside those two populaces would have been rural and somewhat isolated farm communities and such...

the bigger lads playing rugby, the bulk of youngsters playing football and in the industrious squalor rife with poverty, hardship and malnutrition you had an abundance of smaller people.

must be something to this effect, plus years ago it might have been just over 4 million people too. I think the same is true for Wales & Ireland.

 

Yes, Alexis Arguello is the best example. But its not a fair comparison as most people from Nicaragua just aren't big enough to be natural heavyweights.

The Scots do not have a lot of people either, but some of them are big enough for heavyweight. A better point might be this. When was the last highly ranked white guy from Wales, England or Scotland at heavyweight that was born on the island?

 

Is he decent? I've never seen him fight.

 

Fair enough, you have made your point. I wonder why Oz heavyweights fizzled out after Fitz?

(Sorry mcvey, not to derail your thread.)

 

they also had Ian Millarvie a few years ago, who just chucked it in.

 

Well to be fair, relatively speaking Australia doesn't produce many top class fighters period.

 

Dempsey had scots too.plus irish and a load more.