I’m too busy to really look into it, but the five spot could probably go a lot of ways: Bungu Ledwaba Thobela Agbeko Quartey Kid Akeem was good but was cut short Cassius Baloyi
If you’re going to throw heavyweights like Gerrie Coetzee in you might as well throw Anthony Joshua, Herbie Hide and Henry Akinwande in there as well.
D1ck Tiger defeated better opposition than Azumah Nelson, in particular at their best weight class. For example Fullmer/Henry Hank/Giardello /Carter/ Downes at 160 is a better win than Wilfredo Gomez at 126 (who is better as a 122) or Fenech at 130. At the end day both Tiger and Nelson are All time Greats. From West Africa
Mike Schutte His brawls with Gerrie Coetzee were infamous and left Gerrie's hands broken to bits. https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sport...ries-epic-dirty-bout-with-schutte41-years-on/ There was a video of it on youtube a while ago but it seems like its gone now
Oops, you’re right. Well-spotted. My mistake. Just thought that if you were going to throw Gerrie Coetzee name in there, then you might as well consider Joshua, Akinwande and Hide as well since they were, at least statistically more successful in title fights than Cortzee but like Unforgiven pointed out above, Joshua and Akinwande, while spending a time growing up in their parents Nigerian homeland, were actually both born in England before going to Nigeria as infants so do not qualify for this thread as African born fighters. Apologies. Must have been drunk.