What US State produces the best fighters in America?

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  1. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    Which state is the best in America for producing top level talent?


    List your state, then name the fighters that have come out of that system. Also try to limit it to fighters who spent their formative years in your state, rather then being born there and moving at an early age or settling there later in their careers. Ala Sugar Ray Robinson being born in Detroit but spending learning the craft in New York.

    Without much thought im leaning towards California or Pennsylvania.


    But I'll start with my state.

    Michigan
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    Joe Louis
    Floyd Mayweather
    Roger Mayweather
    James Toney
    Stanley Ketchel
    Tony Tucker
    George "Kid" Lavigne
    Pinklon Thomas
    Andre Dirrell
    Thomas Hearns
    Chris Byrd
     
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    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    "Yo 50, you know the best fighters come from the midwestes."

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  3. Atlanta

    Atlanta Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well Florida does have some serious star power with Roy Jones Jr., Antonio Tarver, Nate Campbell, Winky Wright, Jeff Lacy, Tavoris Cloud and if you count some of the Cuban transplants(I don't but if you did...) Florida is close to being right alongside Michigan.
     
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    New York
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    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Carlos Ortiz
    Mike Tyson
    Riddick Bowe
    Zab Judah
    Iran Barkley who owned Hearns twice.
     
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    Texas

    Jack Johnson
    George Foreman
    Tony Ayala
    Rocky Juarez
    Juan Diaz
    Cleveland Williams
     
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  6. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    Promptly avenged by Lights Out. :smoke
     
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    South Carolina - Paul Williams. :smoke

    Oh! And Joe Frazier.
     
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    You forgot to add my favorite fighter Terry Norris in that list.:good
     
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  9. MichiganWarrior

    MichiganWarrior Still Slick! Still Black! Full Member

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    Thats a damned good list. Stanley Ketchel knocked Jack Johnson down once. He then proceeded to give Ketchel a free dental examine. but he knocked him down!
     
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    Benny Leonard.
     
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  11. Watson2005

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    London:

    David Haye
    Kevin Mitchell
    Henry Cooper
    Terry Downes
    John H. Stracey
    Charlie Magri
    Lloyd Honeyghan
    Terry Marsh
    Duke McKenzie
    Nigel Benn
    Chris Eubank
    Frank Bruno
    Lennox Lewis
     
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    I wasn't aware the U.S. had annexed London yet.
     
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    you forgot

    Rocky Graziano
    Jake LaMotta
     
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    California: (just a few off the top of my head)
    -Mosley
    -De la Hoya
    -Vargas
    -Henry Armstrong
    -Richard Sandoval
    -Charlie Zelenoff
     
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    -don't forget about Shannon Briggs
     
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