Countries That Had Only One Real Boxing Star

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  1. asero

    asero Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    tokuyama - north korea
     
    asero, Jul 1, 2020
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    Seeing as the country no longer exists, you're probably on pretty safe ground with Parlov!
     
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    Used to be Nicaragua with Arguello but Chocolatito has changed that.
     
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    I will never forget him my friend, Lol.
     
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    Mate Parlov, Yugoslavia, WBC World Light Heavyweight Champion, Jan 9 1978 - Dec 2 1978.
     
    Richard M Murrieta, Jul 2, 2020
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  6. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I have a Brazilian friend who suggests that Adilson Rodrigues was in his prime a bigger star than all but the top footballers of the time.

    For those in the UK I think he was the Brazilian Bruno.
     
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    I would say Dick Tiger and Biafra sticks out.

    Harry Simon and Namibia?

    Ali Raymi that mouthy Yemeni fighter who died a few years back. He nearly/did break the record for starting your career with first round wins.
     
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    TBooze, Jul 2, 2020
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    For us in the UK, Sacha Baron Cohen is the English Bruno, I assume, TBooze! I didnt know Adilson had had a prime!
     
    Eddie Ezzard, Jul 2, 2020
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    Pierre Charles was probably better than Coopman.
     
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    Adilson had a prime... Walking to the ring to fight Holyfield, it did not get any better than that! ;)
     
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    Leslie Stewart - Trinidad And Tobago
     
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    Hungary? Papp
     
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    Panama, Argentina
     
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    Julian Jackson...US Virgin Islands.
     
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    Paulino Uzcudun, A Basque. Basque is small nation between France and Spain.
     
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