Greatest Canadian Fighters by Lou Eisen

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  1. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The Fight Network is very possibly the worst channel ever.It figures they would hire someone like this idiot as their resident"historian".:patsch
     
    fatcity, May 24, 2012
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  2. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    A Canadian list without Clyde Gray and Art Hafey is no list.
     
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  3. AlFrancis

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    I was just gonna say Art Hafey, forgot about Gray but another top contender.
     
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  4. Unforgiven

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    Maybe Chuvalo had the most Canadian title wins or something ? :huh
     
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  5. HerolGee

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    surely lennox tops them all, he was a dual cit Canadian. What Jamaica that?(bad pun sorry)
     
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  6. Tonto62

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    Your research obviously wasn't too extensive,Canada Lee was born, lived in, and died in New York City.He only fought inCanada twice, just over the border inToronto,His christian ring monicker was a derivative of his surname.Lionel Canegata.
    Like wise Al McCoy was born in Winslow Maine USA. He did fight in Montreal several times.
    You got one right Sonny Jones ,born in Edmomton.
     
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  7. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Chuvalo at N. 1 is indefencable in my opinion.

    No Jimmy McLarnin?
    No Mysterious Billy Smith?
     
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  8. Tonto62

    Tonto62 Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    McClarnin took Canadian nationality ,but he was born in Northern Ireland UK.
    There is also some doubt about Smith's origins.

    "Mysterious Billy Smith was born in either Little River, Nova Scotia, or East Port, Missouri--depending on the source. (Reported by the Everett Daily Herald, October 15, 1937, as having been born in East Port, Missouri (not Canada).) He was the father of boxer [url]Mysterious Billy Smith Jr.[/url] of Portland, OR, USA."
     
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