Pearls of the Orient: The 20 greatest fighters to have come from the far East

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  1. bxrfan

    bxrfan Sizzle Full Member

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    Fighting Harada didn't win the Featherweight title, right?
     
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  2. Amsterdam

    Amsterdam Boris Christoff Full Member

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    Course, but overtime, 49-1(43) looks really good to the majority of people and rightfully so, that looks great on paper. We have a little to more to rate off of than 49 victories that include maybe 5-7 decent to good victories, with no great victories.
     
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  3. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Marciano syndrome.
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Cheers.

    Yeah, the bottom two spots were a bit "eh..." - Baek, eh?

    Noted.
     
    McGrain, Mar 5, 2008
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  5. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I'll look forward to your list if you uget around to it.
     
    McGrain, Mar 5, 2008
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  6. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Really only known for getting blown out in three by Julian Jackson.

    But there's no shame in that, Terry Norris suffered the same fate.

    He was supposedly one of the harder hitters to ever come from the East. I want to see more of him, personally.
     
    Russell, Mar 5, 2008
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Shut it!

    Hang your head in shame!
     
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  8. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Nope. He had a tilt and then retired.
     
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  9. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Sshh! Luigi will hear you!
     
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  10. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    :lol: It is true though, no way he should be above Elorde, Pacquiao, or even guys like Watanabe, Kingpetch, etc.
     
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  11. McGrain

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    Obha - Mendoza, McVey and Sweet Pea.
    Sorjaturang - Russell
    Baek - Russell
    Wonjongkam - Dalek
    John - Mendoza


    Anyone else worthy of consideration?
     
    McGrain, Mar 5, 2008
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  12. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I love him and respectfully disagree.

    Look at his face!
     
    McGrain, Mar 5, 2008
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  13. Russell

    Russell Loyal Member Full Member

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    Some Asian fighters are hard to gauge...

    Plenty of them have right below 20 or slightly over 20 fights... And thats it.

    Weight draining makes their careers ridiculously short so they're thrown to the wolves five fights in if that.

    Kind of hard to determine a lot of things with some of them.
     
    Russell, Mar 5, 2008
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  14. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Also, many of this very fine fighters never left home, or did so very infrequently.

    And there seems to be a certain amount of suspicion in the west about hometomw decisions etc.

    Which is hellish really. I mean Lewis-Hollyfield I was disgusting, and let's not even get started on the Germans...
     
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  15. Sweet Pea

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    Raging B(_)LL(probably the most knowledgable of the lower weights) also believes Ohba should be top 10.

    Keep Wonjongkam out of there.
     
    Sweet Pea, Mar 5, 2008
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