Name Your Favorite Fighters from Each Country/Continent

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  1. paulfv

    paulfv Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    You can add other geographical areas (states, provinces, ...) too, if you want.

    I'll start (all boxers names are links to their boxrec career record pages, except for the Hilton brothers link):

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    - Tough to narrow it down for me. I'll just go with Mike Tyson

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    - I would say Kostya Tszyu, but then you get into is he really from there, etc. So instead I'll take Jeff Fenech

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    - Another very tough one for me. I loved watching Azumah Nelson fight, but I'll take brawler John "The Beast" Mugabi from Uganda
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    - Roberto Duran

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    - Carlos Monzón
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    - Julio Cesar Chavez, Sr.

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    - I love Wilfred Benitez, but I have to go with Felix Trinidad for the beatdown he put on Fernando Vargas (that's coming from someone with Mexican heritage, too)

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    - Enjoyed the Hilton brothers, and Arturo Gatti, but I have to take Donovan "Razor" Ruddock

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    - Joe Calzaghe, the Pride of Wales

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    - Huge range of choices. I'll take Polish phenom Dariusz "Tiger" Michalczewski

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    - Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao

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    (state I live in) - A lot of great fighters, especially from Philadelphia. Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins

    Who you got? :bbb
     
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  2. GalangK

    GalangK Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I'm going to try and keep it to active fighters

    Philippines: Manny Pacquiao

    Indonesia Chris John, although Daud Yordan seems more exciting to watch

    Japan: Hozumi Hasegawa

    Thailand: Saddam Kyietyongyuth

    Mexico: Juan Manuel Marquez

    UK: Craig McEwan

    Canada: Steve Molitor

    Puerto Rico: Juan Manuel Lopez

    Ghana: Joshua Clottey

    South Africa: Ali Funeka

    Venezuela: Jorge Linares

    USA: Shane Mosley

    Australia: Michael Katsidis

    Poland Tomasz Adamek

    Germany ... tough... I can't seem to pick any unless you count Abraham as German

    I'll stop here before I include countries like Denmark, Ukraine, Russia, or Panama where there either not that many known fighters or my knowledge of fighters there are limited.
     
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  3. paulfv

    paulfv Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Great list, GalangK -- thanks! :good

    You know a lot more about some of the foreign fighters than I do. :thumbsup
     
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  4. GalangK

    GalangK Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Being raised in Asia as a youngster exposed me a lot to those fighters :good

    And with youtube these days, its a LOT easier to follow these guys around. Its just too bad we don't see guys like Hasegawa fight in North America, Im sure you guys will like him if he does.
     
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  5. evalistinho

    evalistinho Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Duran is NOT from South America. (Panama)
     
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  6. GalangK

    GalangK Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Common mistake.

    A lot of guys think Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, etc are part of South America.
     
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  7. Goose

    Goose Russian oligarch Full Member

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    this thread is too much work, which cannot be expected from majority of ESB members

    USA - James Toney

    Ukraine - Vitali Klitschko

    Russia - Povetkin

    Germany - Arthur Abraham

    UK - David Haye

    Mexico - Israel Vazquez

    Kazakhstan - Vasiliy Jirov
     
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  8. GalangK

    GalangK Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Do you know of any other Kazakh fighter besides Jirov and Abdulaev? Im asking because they seem to do really well in the amateur levels and wonder if this may eventually translate into the pro game.
     
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  9. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    U.S...Sweet Pea

    Australia...The man in my avatar

    Africa...Nelson and Kalambay

    CENTRAL America...Duran

    South America...Carlos Monzon and Gairy St Claire.

    Mexico...Ruben Olivares

    Puerto Rico...Wilfredo Gomez and Carlos Ortiz

    Rest of the Carribean...Mike McCallum and Jose Napoles

    Canada...Jimmy McLarnin and Sam Langford.

    UK...Ken Buchanan, John Conteh and Danny Williams.

    Europe...Nino Benvenuti

    Asia..Pacman

    Japan...Fighting Harada and Jiro Watanabe.

    North Korea...Masamori Tokuyama

    South Korea..Sung Kil Moon and Jung Koo Chang

    Thailand...Sahaprom, Wongjonkam and Chionoi.

    NSW, Australia...Jeff Fenech (I dont like him that much but he was an excellent fighter) Skinny Hussein, Wally Carr and Dave Sands.
     
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  10. Ringnut

    Ringnut Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Great thread! Nice starting point for someone who used to be just a casual fan of boxing to get to know more about other fighters.
     
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  11. Karapuz

    Karapuz Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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    Dude, Ukraine, Russia, Denmark and Panama have a lot of good pro boxers

    1. Denmark:
    Mikkel Kessler(WBA sm champion, WBC sm ex-champ)
    2. Ukraine:
    Vitali Klitschko(WBC hw champ, WBO hw ex-champ)
    Wladimir Klitschko(WBO, IBF hw champ)
    Sergiy Dzinziruk(WBO lm champ)
    Andriy Kotelnik(WBA lw champ)
    Alexander Dimitrenko(HW prospect)
    Vyacheslav Senchenko(ww WBA champ)
    3. Russia
    Kostya Tszyu(WBC, IBF, WBA lw ex-champ)
    Nicolay Valuev(WBA hw champ)
    Sultan Ibragimov(WBO hw ex-champ)
    Yuri Arbachakov(WBC fw ex-champ)
    Ahmed Kotiev(WBO ww ex-champ)
    Alexander Povetkin(HW prospect)
    Denis Boytsov(HW prospect)
    Denis Inkin(WBO sm ex-champ)
    Roman Karmazin(IBF lm ex-champ)
    Oleg Maskaev(WBC hw ex-champ)
    Alexander Alexeev(WBO cw ex-champ)
    4. Panama
    Roberto Duran(WBC, WBA lw ex-champ,WBC ww ex-champ, WBA lm ex-champ,WBC mw ex-champ)
    Ismael Laguna(WBC, WBA lw ex-champ)
    Celestino Caballero(WBA, IBF sb champ)
    Anselmo Moreno(WBA bw champ)
    Guillermo Jones(WBA cw champ)
     
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  12. WhataRock

    WhataRock Loyal Member Full Member

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    For its size Denmark is a bit of a mini-powerhouse for the region.

    You can add the Bredahl boys, the very good Tom Bogs, Battling Nelson, Dick Nelson, former titlist Gert Bo Jacobs..And some pretty solid contenders for their time in Hansen, Christiansen and Johansen...and probably more that I cant recall.

    Add Pedroza, Ernesto Marcal, Luis Ibarra, Panama Al Brown, Zapata, Jorge Lujan and Pinder to Panama's contribution.
     
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  13. Karapuz

    Karapuz Well-Known Member banned Full Member

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  14. tolindoy

    tolindoy UBESTRIDTE MESTER Full Member

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    I'll do it by continent with common aspects: EXCITING!!!

    Asia - Pacman
    Australia - Vic Darchinyan
    Africa - Joshua Clottey
    North America - Shane Mosley
    South America - Juan Manuel Lopez
    Europe - David Haye
     
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  15. Danny_Rand

    Danny_Rand Slick N Quick Full Member

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    USA - Floyd Mayweather
    Mexico - Juan Manuel Marquez
    Britain - Lennox Lewis
    Cuba - Yoriorkis Gamboa
    Puerto Rico - Hector Camacho
     
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