Panama vs Puerto Rico - Which Country is Best in Boxing ?

Right bro, we got brown from the mostly white genes.

 

I’m comparing Benitez head to head with Roberto Duran, whom he beat with relative ease.

 

They’re both Hispanic though, aren’t they? In the same vein Americans & Englishmen aren’t a different race.

 

That’s what I thought. That these countries are majority composed of the same ethnicity.

 

But they are the same ethnic stock, yes? Spanish? Racism between them seems odd. Certainly I understand you have indigenous & mixed indigenous peoples there but those are very much not representative of the make-up.

Are they going to hurl the same Latino stereotypes at one another? LOL.

 

I've definitely seen it before.

 

Yes, they are representative of the makeup. Just from Wikipedia, 65% of Panamanians are of mixed indigenous and European ancestry, and 12.3% are fully indigenous. In most of the New World countries that were colonized by Spain, people of full European ancestry are the minority.

 

I don’t want to derail the thread so we’ll leave it at that, but I suspect the numbers wouldn’t tell the whole story.

In any case, fine history both of them. I favour Puerto Rico.

 

Puerto Rico and it's pretty clear, after the top 5 in Panama you have a severe dip in quality.

 

Weight drained? the fight took place at 154 but that was a supremely fit and focused Duran, he just had nothing for Benitez, Montreal Duran would of got that same work after rubbing his crotch to Benitez like that.

 

To be fair, 2 of Durans biggest losses in his prime were to Puerto Rican boxers.