Which towns/cities are the best P4p in terms of size to boxers produced? Ill throw some ideas out there Manchester Sheffield Liverpool Norwich Nottingham Methyr London Birmingham Any ideas? Also isnt it weird how some big cities seem to produce a comparitively small amount of fighters Newcastle?! Leeds?
In my unbiased view it has to be Manchester...:yep Over the past three decades it has produced fighters who have all operated at the Domestic Championship Level and beyond...:good
Manchester... Sadly, my home city, London, is embarrassingly short of boxers compared to its population. It also holds very few shows compared to other European capital cities. :roll:
Liverpool in the ams, manchesterville in the pro's. May I add Blackpool for its size has produced..... Ronnie Clayton (British and Commonwealth champion) Brian London (British and Commonwealth champion) Neville Rowe (top ten pro) Eric Metcalfe (top ten pro) Mathew Ellis (ABA Champion) Jack Arnfield (Unbeaten pro and national champ) Brain Rose (Unbeaten Central area champ and National am champ) Matty Askin (unbeaten pro) Richard Turba (decent pro and European amateur bronze medallist) Karl Kirkham (Was number one at middle for a bit/ UK top ten prospect as per boxing news) Scott Cardle (UK number 2 and UK top ten prospect as per boxing news) JT (top ten pro and decent am) Ashley Delaney (Top ten am) Roy Finlay (unbeaten pro retired) Andy Abrol (unbeaten pro retired) Scott Cardle (national champ and olympic hopeful) Ashley Dean, Curtis Dean, Adam Little and Gavin Nicholls (all very decent championship amateurs) Louis Veitch (central area champ) Alan Campbell (decent amateur and former pro) Plus loads of other decent fighters who didn't quite make it. Blackpool is a tiny **** hole... Thats pretty amazing.
Surely Newbridge in recent years wins this hands down! Population size: 6000 approx Boxers: Joe Calzaghe, Gavin Rees, Bradley Pryce
I can't think of anyone myself, its something I've thought about before. I suppose I'll have to take up boxing with the aim of becoming an ATG, just to get the stats up
It would be a good start lol seriously though im curious can anybody name a few fighters from Newcastle?
Yes, I've always found it somewhat odd that large tough cities like Leeds and Newcastle hardly produce any decent boxers. P-4-P in recent years must be Manchester, although in the 1980's very few good boxers came from there:huh Nottingham is pretty good too with class acts such as Kirkland Laing,Herol Graham and Carl Froch.
This was when the foundations were laid for years to come at the late Phil Martins 'Champs camp' Manchesters success over the last 10 years is born of this era.:good