I did this thread a couple of months ago. But some boxers change. I took the top 15 of the 4 main belts: Chris Arreola US Ray Austin US Jean Francois Bergeron CA Taras Bidenko UA Josue Blocus FR Lamon Brewster US Calvin Brock US Chris Byrd US Shane Cameron NZ Ruslan Chagaev UZ Eddie Chambers US JD Chapman US Alexander Dimitrenko UA Juan Carlos Gomez CU Donnell Holmes US Evander Holyfield US Sultan Ibragimov RU Wladimir Klitschko UA Vitaly Klitschko UA Luan Krasniqi GE Sergei Liakhovich Belarus Oleg Maskaev RU Mike Mollo US Oliver McCall US Kali Meehan Australia Michael Moorer US Fres Oquendo PR Samuel Peter NI Oleg Platov UA Alexander Povetkin RU Hasim Rahman US John Ruiz US Sinan Samil Sam TU Matt Skelton UK Tony Thompson US David Tua NZ Nicolay Valuev RU Vladimir Virchis UA DaVarryll Williamson US USA - 16/39 - 41% Ukraine - 6/39 - 15% Russia - 4/39 - 10% New Zealand - 2/39 - 5% Germany - 1/39 - 5% Canada - 1/39 2.5% Uzbekistan - 1/39 2.5% France 1/39 2.5% Cuba - 1/39 2.5% Belarus - 1/39 2.5% Australia - 1/39 2.5% Turkey - 1/39 2.5% Nigeria - 1/39 2.5% United Kingdom - 1/39 2.5% Puerto Rico 1/39 2.5% changes from last months: US lost James Toney, but replaced him with Chris Arreola (21-0-0, 19 KO's) and Michael Moorer (50-4-0, 39 KO's) is back; Germany lost Tino Hoffman, and Russia lost Denis Bakhtov. The list gained Puerto Rican Fres Oquendo (28-4-0, 17 KO's) What are your views:
And to add to some controversy on other threads: Liakhovitch is Belarus, and Chagaev is not Russian, he is an Uzbek.
I thought this was common knowledge. :huh Again, I thought this was common knowledge. Is he a Greater Russian though? That could confuse matters; I'm not sure if Chagaev is a Russian name or not. It does sound a bit Central Asian, though. :think
Unfortunately its not. Americans tend to be very ignorant of many of the once USSR coutries. But one cant blame them. The communist government instead of helping the needy was spending billions to Russify all of the nations it held under an iron fist.
It didn't help that for all of the USSR's history it was known by most people in the West as Soviet Russia or just Russia. It wasn't until the 1980s that most people here started to find out that there were so many differetn ethnicities in the Soviet Union. The only reason I'm (relatively) familiar with the various nationalities over there is that my maternal family went around Eastern Europe and the Western USSR in 1973, and because my maternal aunt is a Russian orthodox nun who travels over to Russia every other year. What's Dimitrenko like? I've been hearing about him for years, but I've never seen him box.
Ukraine and Russia are going to have a real battle for primacy, espcially when Boytsov makes his way bakc up. The odd spoilers are Solis and Haye, Cuba and UK repectively. I think Peter is wildly overrated. America seems finished as a majo rplayer at heavy. I hope Chambers or Arreloa prove me wrong. Being from Cali, it ould b esepecially nice for me to see a big, hard punching Mexican american heavy from my state win the belt. But is he going to beat Wladdy? Povietkin? Chag? Probably not. Chag's blood lines are part Tartar, and that is very cool. It is pretty disrespectful to lump all these guys together.
I find it incredible how few boxers come out of New Zealand, I suppose they all go into rugby but man, they are a country of people who like a fight.
Boxing is losing credibility and especially in USA. What this country does, the parrots around repeat. Many foreigners look up to this country, we need to bring boxing back.
