Best boxing city in UK and Ireland

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  1. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    What city in the UK or Ireland produces the best boxers. After the recent commonwealths I would have to say Belfast with 2 gold medal winners and 2 silver medal winners hailing from the city and a 3rd gold medal winner (O'Kane) training there, along with pros like Frampton, Lindsay, Conlon, and Rogan and previous world champions like Wayne McCullough and Riny Monagahan there seems to be and endless amount of talent coming from the city and a city of just a half a million people also .

    Ryan Burnett current youth olympic light-fly champion is from Belafst aswel .

    your thoughts ???
     
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  2. Bad Dog

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    Liverpool or London.
     
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  3. raws

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    Manchester. Easy Peasy.
     
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  4. irishhitman

    irishhitman Well-Known Member Full Member

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    belfast... or west belfast.... the old saying theres a pub at every street corner.... that applies to the boxing clubs also:D
     
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  5. moorser

    moorser Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    whats the best club in Belfast do you reckon ? It would have to be between Immaculatta, Holy Family or Holy Trinity I would say they are constantly producing champions??
     
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  6. pathmanc1986

    pathmanc1986 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    its manchester by some distance
     
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  7. JonOli

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    Just to say, honestly not being funny, just bigging up the midlands: London isn't a city, Birmingham is England's biggest City. :deal

    There's the City of London, but it has a population of about 8000.
     
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  8. irishhitman

    irishhitman Well-Known Member Full Member

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    all three are good and always do well in the ulster and national championships
    but holy trinity would get my vote
     
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  9. ciaran

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    liverpool or manchester
     
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  10. billy nelson

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    Its Glasgow got to be.WHY? who cares lol
     
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  11. rayrobinson

    rayrobinson Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Manchester, as its the only town where I have seen Hatton, Calzaghe, Haye , and figters from Ireland , Liverpool ,Birmingham , Glasgow all get great receptions.
     
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  12. leo_messi

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    Manchester is a good shout. Aswell as producing good fighters they also stage some big contests...
     
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  13. JOSEY WALES

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    Manchester followed by Cardiff .
     
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  14. Strike

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    Obviously Belfast has done well, but winning a few Commonwealth golds is a bit of a push to class it as the best city.

    London has produced the highest amount of top drawer fighters, but it is huge and for hosting and supporting big fights and on the p4p scale not so much.

    Manchester hosts fights very well and like others have said has shown big support for fighters from all over.

    In the past few years you have had Michael Gomez, Ricky Hatton, Jamie Moore, Michael Jennings, John Murray, Steve Foster Jr, Tyson Fury, Matthew Hall, Anthony Farnell (and now a great trainer) and if you include Greater Manchester then Amir Khan can be included too.
     
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  15. Right Hook

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    Belfast has produced shitloads of brilliant boxers for all the size of it
     
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