Has the US ever had less world titles than another nation?

I remember seeing an article in 2016 Britain had the most with 13 world champs, USA had 12.

 

Most of the 1970s, apart from heavyweights and especially after Bob Foster retired. There weren't many US champs throughout the decade until Leonard and the light-heavies in the last year or so of the decade. So, around 1975/76 the likes of the UK, Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Japan & Puerto Rico had more champs.

 

They were all men's champions ;
1. Ricky Burns; 2. Carl Frampton; 3. Jamie McDonnell; 4. Terry Flanangan; 5. Tony Bellew; 6. Kell Brook; 7. Kal Yafai; 8. Nathan Cleverley; 9. Lee Haskins; 10. Lee Selby; 11. Billy Joe Saunders; 12. Anthony Joshua; 13. James DeGale.

 

I remember reading an old magazine I kept, a yearbook edition from 1971, recapping 1970. THe country with the most world champs in 1970 was...............Venezuela. America had only 2, Frazier and Foster.

 

Not relevant but this is one of my favorite things about boxing, there was seldom as much international involvement in a single sport as there is in boxing. The breath of that fact is hard for me to imagine, for a lot of people- seeing someone like Duran on television in black and white or color, if you were a Panamanian kid watching Duran v Buchanan, seeing someone from your home country make their way to United States to win a championship... it must've been nothing short of heroically inspiring.

Being from a low-income, and or, oppressed background, and seeing someone like you rise from being born in the lowest rungs of society, who decided to learn to box, like any young kid can do, and goes on to headline Madison Square Garden, win a belt. I cant imagine what that feels like, to see someone succeed here in the States

 

They are not champions, they were only belt holders. Some of the belts were “suspender” quality.

 

Well I wouldn't be claiming these were particularly good world champions (tbh I have not even watched some of those guys box) however weather anyone likes it or not, they were official world champions. Too many belts around these days for my liking.

 

I believe they were Alfredo Marcano, Antonio Gomez, Vicente Rondón and Betulio Gonzalez. Crazy.