Best Heavyweight countries by Resumes.

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  1. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lets compare/rate the best countries by the resumes of their top 5 heavyweights. to get the ball rolling I submit my own country, Ireland. In no particular order Maher, Tom Sharkey, Coffey, Madden and Gardner.
    I think we should leave out the USA, no brainer. A bit problematic to say what country a fighter is from so I submit born and lived first ten years.
     
    mattdonnellon, Jul 6, 2014
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  2. fists of fury

    fists of fury Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Let's see...

    Coetzee
    Sanders
    Knoetze
    Botha*
    Coetzer

    ...Could be better, but could be worse too I suppose.

    *There were better SA heavyweights, imo, than Botha but to be fair to him, he fought some pretty big names, even if he lost to nearly all of them.
     
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  3. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Burns
    Langford
    Chuvalo
    and what of Lewis, Ruddock, Ferguson, Berbick, are they eligible?
     
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  4. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    They are not under the rules you set, but we easily can enter Larry Gains and Robert Cleroux to round out the Canadian 5.
     
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  5. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Germany

    Max Schmeling
    Walter Neusel
    Karl Mildenberger
    Heinz Neuhaus
    Willi Besmanoff
     
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  6. Bummy Davis

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    Ukraine

    W.Klitschko
    V. Klitschko
     
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  7. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Wales

    Tommy Farr
    Joe Erskine
    Jack Peterson
    Dick Richardson
    Johnny Williams
     
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  8. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think I would have gone with Ben Foord over Botha, but no matter.
     
    scartissue, Jul 6, 2014
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  9. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Australia,
    Goddard
    Slavin
    Bell
    Lang
    Squires
    No Jackson, do we need a better rule on eligibility?Bugner?

    NewZealand
    Heeney
    Strickland
    Laing
    and Parker now on the scene.
    Tua and Fitz make them formidable?
     
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  10. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nigeria;
    Peter
    Izon
    Ibeabuchi
    Kayode
    maybe Akinwande
     
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  11. Big Ukrainian

    Big Ukrainian Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Then Glazkov, Virchys, Dimitrenko
     
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  12. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    So far;
    Ireland
    Wales
    Ukraine
    S.Africa
    Nigeria
    Canada
    Germany
    NewZealand
    Australia...
    Russia, Poland, England, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina and more needed.
     
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  13. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Argentina

    Oscar Bonavena
    Luis Firpo
    Cesar Brion
    Eduardo Corletti
    Pedro Lovell
     
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  14. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Surely Peralta?
     
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  15. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My bad! Anyone that can give Foreman, Bonavena and Lyle a run for their money deserves a spot. always have a habit of thinking of him as a light heavy, but he did develop into a decent heavy.
     
    scartissue, Jul 7, 2014
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