Jackson was born in the Danish West Indies. At no time was he; 1.A British Citizen. 2.Eligible to fight for the British Empire or British Commonwealth titles. Peter Jackson (boxer) Peter Jackson (3 July 1861 – 13 July 1901) was a heavyweight boxer from Christiansted, Danish West Indies who had a significant international career.
Argentina is super stacked. Easily could make a case for it as a top 10 pro boxing nation US Japan Mexico Thailand Puerto Rico Cuba and UK are the only countries clearly ahead. So it Argentina vs Ireland Philippines Ukraine and maaaaybe Germany for the last 3 spots
I'd have Panama ahead of Ireland, Argentina, Germany and Ukraine. I'd say the Philippines are above those as well.
George I thought that looked solid until I remembered Claude Noel, also from Trinidad. This isn't simple by any means of having only one star. I was also thinking about Guyana and that Patrick Ford was the only hotshot to come out of that boxing hotbed, until I remembered Lennox Blackmoore and Lennox Beckles who were also both world-rated. Has New Zealand been studied yet? Anyone other than Tom Heeney?
I'll be honest Scar, first time I ever heard of Trinidad And Tobago from Leslie, so I figured he was a sure winner.
Not so fast Eddie, Jirov was from there too. I'm not sure that Jirov was a 'star' like GGG, I wasn't around then to tell, but I'd say that Jirov was on par with GGG as a fighter. In terms of ability, I mean.
Hang on Jel, got another one. Slobodan Kacar also from Yugoslavia. Bosnian born, but it was a part of Yugoslavia. Must admit I couldn't remember his name. All I remembered thinking was "who was the dude that beat Eddie Mustafa Muhammad for the vacant title and where was he from?"
Paraguay - Valentin Galeano (fought under the name Kid Pascualito). The only reason I remembered this was because I saw his fight back in the day with Ruben Olivares. World rated bantamweight.
Correct, but would you put Papp over his countryman Zsolt Erdei who captured a professional world title?
