Why Has Scotland Never Had a Heavyweight?

yes Wales did have a few Top HWs, so the other places lost out on big men generally to social economic factors on health and stature as well as football and rural trade & farming - in other words these folk never ventured into the cities to carve out an existence...

this is still mostly true for Wales bar the few big boys they've produced, I suppose a better question would be "How many Top HWs came from the industrialised North period. I can only think of the two London's and Wood**** and Shaw.

 

Only Six? Ok.

Alexis Arguello
Ricardo Mayorga
Eduarto Mojica ( 60-70's )
Luis Perez ( current )
Rosendo Alvarez ( current )
Eddie Gazo ( 70's and 80's )

 

As someone said it is a country of two cities, and the poverty in those cities produced smaller people due to lack of decent food.

I know that the big cops you see in Glasgow are allegedly the descendants of the big highlanders from places like Muck, and Mull that were brought into the city way back when to control the violence. These people being farmers had a far healthier diet,and developed accordingly.

 

Can add British Champs Johnny Williams and David Pearce to that list too :bbb

 

a handful of Bigmen does not the reality change. :thumbsup

 

Where? Outside of Dublin and Cardiff?

Again I don't think they had such densely populated cities as Scotland's two, in comparison with the rural areas.

Wales was always about coal, so it stands to reason all the pits were not in Cardiff, and Swansea, and I think Ireland is even today a nation of farm land and farmers.

That said I have neither the time or inclination to check whether the population of Ireland, and Wales was as concentrated in cities on a similar ratio to Scotland.

Tbh I really don't care, but the old man is a Jock, and he is well into his 90's, and never failed to remind us about the conditions he was brought up in.

 

Working class kids don't grow to their full potential in country's like Scotland. The better off ones did. Historically it is remarkable how many British heavyweights were said to be the sons of butchers or Farmers by explanation for their size. Boxing is a working class sport throughout the world it stands to reason that there will be less heavyweights in country's where the working class are smaller than the rest of the population.

 

they produced at least 3 that were noted and rated fighters... McGoldrick, Abrew and Shaw, none after that till Millarvie I think and now this new kid, I don't even know his name.

Choklab has hit it though, those are excepted and noted facts and circumstances for peoples living in urban squalor especially in recorded hardtimes of rife poverty.

 

In Nicaragua??