pre 1990's boxing...was alot of american success due to always playing on home turf.

I really dont understand how you can not think that the influx of eastern euros into the pros has had an effect on USA being dominant, take out all of them and america dominates from middleweight all the way up to and including heavyweight

 

And yet the best fighter in the world is...drum roll please.... an American.

Some of you on here need to get a grip. Seriously.

 

Idiotic post.

 

Name a trio of Euros that are the equal to SRL, Robinson, or Ali.

 

Lol you're comparing a list comprised of Hall of Famers to a bunch of Euro gate keepers. Like I said, today's field of heavies is ruled by two great fighters, thats it. Which one of the "greats" besides the Klits have a shot at the Hall of fame?

 

Only 4 of the 71 list are hall of fame, the likes of mac foster, a 40 year old sonny liston, 185lb cooper, urtain, garcia, etc are only able to be considered top ten because there wasnt all the eastern euros competing.

There will be other fighters around today that will be HOF, whoever dominates for the 5-10 years after the klitschkos will have a shout at hall of fame. Foreman has been inducted but not based on what he had done upto 71. Sonny liston is HOF but not based on what he was like in 1971.

My point with that list of eastern euros was to demonstrate that they are a reason for the USA no longer dominating divisions today, if you take them all out, like how it was pre 1990 (although there may have been some eastern euros), USA still dominates the division. So I dont see how you can not agree with that being a reason.

 

The reason for putting most of the europeans in together with the russians is because their move into professional came at the same time and is mostly in the larger weights, UK and boxers from what was west germany are separate as they have always had some success,
but since the 90s there have been many boxers coming from former ussr countries, east germany, bulgaria, hungary, romania etc

 

I agree with you ,guess your too ******ed to notice sarcasm :good

 

Actually you dont agree with Highguard, he noticed you sarcasm and disagreed with you as you seem to be saying home advantage doesnt mean anything, Highguard was being sarcastic when saying it means nothing which you seem to have missed

 

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Thread starter this is why during the pre 90's the Yanks had success.