The most remote place that produced a world-class boxer?

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  1. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Remember spendin' time in an armpit of a gym above a garage in Auckland, New Zealand where David Tua trained.

    Got me to thinkin': What's the most remote place a world-class fighter has come from?
     
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  2. papptheking

    papptheking Active Member Full Member

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    mongolia comes to mind. lakva sim and most recently olympic champion enkhbat badar uugan
     
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    also recently this fighter from olympics impressed me his name "bruno julie" from mauritius he won bronze medal. i think his style would be excellent for professional boxing! but i do not have any news on him
     
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  4. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Doesn't it make you wonder, p, how these guys from such remote places can get the training to compete on a world-class level?

    P.S. Had a contingent of Eastern Bloc fighters 'n trainers waving and smiling to me at the Wild Card Gym, thinkin' I was Lazlo Papp.

    They were so disappointed.
     
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  5. papptheking

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    yes it do make me wonder. the gym in mauritius he trained at probably the only gym in the country. he must be very gifted though athletically. reminds me of joe calzaghe and how his father just a musician with no boxing training brought him to the top. nice story of laszlo papp :good
     
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    how about kali meehan? he is from fiji isnt he?
     
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    julian jackson i think was from u.s virgin islands. would that be considered remote?
     
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    tongan fighter paea wolfgramm who fought wladimir klitschko 2 times. he won silver medal in olympics
     
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  9. bestadalousiest

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    Maybe more so when Emile Griffith came up being born in '38
     
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    Arturo Godoy-Chile (not remote but not many from Chile)
    Yolande Pompey-Trinidad and Tobago
    Lottie Mwale-Zambia
    Dick Tiger-30's Nigeria
    Harry Simon-Namibia
    Joe Walcott-Barbados
    Orzubek Nazarov-Kyrgyzstan
    Kamel Bou-Ali-Tunisia
     
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  11. papptheking

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    paulus moses from namibia too
     
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    zou shiming the chinese boxer he comes from a mountainous, remote region in china i remember one of the olympic commentators said
     
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  13. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Is it too much of a stretch to conclude, since many of the boxers you've listed come from places so far off the beaten track they couldn't possibly get first-rate training, so maybe, just MAYBE, great fighters are born, not made.
     
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  14. bulakenyo

    bulakenyo Am I a boxing fan yet? Full Member

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    :lol:

    Is this the reason you made the "People who asked for your autograph" thread?
     
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  15. andyZOR

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    Zeljko Mavrovic from Croatia.

    Not sure about the world class but he was good in his days... Gave Lewis a tough fight.

    Not a lot of Croatians into boxing imo...
     
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