Lack of quality fighters from the west today

6 of the top 11 Heavyweights according to TBRB are from countries in "the west" you list in the opening post.

7 of the top 11 Super Middleweights according to TBRB are from countries in "the west" you list in the opening post.

All 11 of the ranked Junior Middleweights according to TBRB are from countries in "the west" you list in the opening post.

9 of the top 10 ranked Welterweights according to TBRB are from countires in "the west" you list in the opening post.

8 of the top 11 ranked Junior Welterweights according to TBRB are from countries in "the west" you list in the opening post.

So, in order for this thread to be respectable and accurate, you would have to change every use of the word "west" to "east" until you get to the Junior Lightweight division, in which case those "western" nations still hold their own better at those weights than the "eastern" nations do at the higher weights.

 

Dude. South America is equally a western continent as North America.

 

frampton,froch,brook, stevenson,khan,walters,huck,

and cotto is puerto rican which is a U.S terrortiry

 

south america is very similar to portugal and spain which are part of the west

you seem to think that the west is english speaking, fat tv addicts and nothing else

 

So are you trying to say they are part of "the east" somehow?

Hahaha. Just admit you mucked up...

 

south america is not part of the west, lmao. south america often to referred to as "latin america". canada, united states, australia/new zealand, and western europe make up the west.

i'm american and agree that we have gotten softer than toilet paper for various reasons.

 

Australia/NZ? :blood

 

Well, it was a poor conceit. **** in, **** out.

 

yes

 

I'd suggest the OP switches the statement from "west" to something else (e.g. North America/Europe/Australia) because this is going to be a pointless argument about what constitutes "the west" and what doesn't even though people perfectly understand what you mean.

Either way, I'm not in total agreement but let's just say that "the west" aren't as dominant as they once were.

It's beating a dead horse now anyway, this discussion has been had countless of times.

 

mainly due to the whole of eastern europe being aloud to compete ad well as more cubans

 

If you don't want to include South America, that's fine.

Then just drop each of the numbers above for WW and JWW 1 or 2 digits (because of Argentina). And you still see that "the west" listed in the OP absolutely dominates all of those ratios.

So, forget the South America debate. Thread is still equally foolish and as straight up wrong as an opinion can get.