Countries That Never Produced An All-Time Great

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  1. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Luxembourg

    Cayman Islands
     
  2. mochabuzz

    mochabuzz Active Member Full Member

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    equatorial Guinea
     
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  3. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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  4. Mendoza

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    Given their population size, and realtively poor citizens China and India come to mind.
     
  5. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    Interesting! Here's a name for you (although maybe you know): Gunnar Barlund! Do you have any other heritage links or just Finnish if you don't mind me asking (to add to your boxing list)?
     
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  6. Italian Stallion

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    Perhaps Max Schmeling comes closest.
     
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  7. PhillyPhan69

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    Well I like Mauro Mina and he was quite the hero in Peru, but he is not an ATG and probably the best to come from there. But Mina deserved a shout out today anyway
     
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  8. TBooze

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    Taking away the silliness of the term all-time, greatness really should mean something very special.


    So for Queensberry rules boxing, if you took the 35 fighters ranked by Rummy on his excellent thread:

    https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/top-35-all-time-reveal-boxing-survey-series.653021/


    You could argue only USA, UK, Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Nicaragua are in the argument for producing a great (Ireland, New Zealand and Canada having a * too)...


    So with them guidelines I would suggest Australia is the answer.
     
  9. Devon

    Devon Well-Known Member Full Member

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    New Zealand, Mongolia, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Peru, Morocco, Luxembourg, Netherlands
     
  10. Italian Stallion

    Italian Stallion Active Member Full Member

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    Would you say Poland produced an ATG (Michalczewski, Adamek)?
     
  11. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    I think you'd have a very hard time arguing Young Griffo wasn't an ATG.
     
  12. bcr

    bcr Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I would be proud of having a guy like Jerzy Kulej who won two Olympic Golds.
     
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  13. George Crowcroft

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  14. janitor

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    Don't forget Barbados.

    Proof that an ATG can crop up anywhere!
     
  15. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Well by literal definition no one was calling him great in 1800.... ;)

    Twenty three people here of sound judgement, between them did not have him in their best 35 fighters. If greatness is to be elite, I would suggest thus Griffo falls short and is merely brilliant.


    But I understand, this is abstract; others may have less strict criterion for greatness, and other sites may have different opinions on a top 35.
     
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