The most remote place that produced a world-class boxer?

mate parlov from croatia. olympic gold and he became world champion

 

Well you will get your occasional 1 or 2 like Stipe Drews but other than that not a lot.....

 

sure. training will only carry you so far. genetics and the will to win matter the most i think..

 

With the advances in transport and communication, and the internet, it's kinda hard to think of a genuinely remote place in the world anymore.

Unless you live in Antarctica or northern-northern Canada. Or central Siberia or a bedouin tribe in the middle of the Sahara.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

 

Yeah, I think you're right.

Many of the harder hitting ATG boxers of yesteryears were probably discovered by people who saw them in a street fight/bareknuckle prizefighting or a backyard boxing slugfest somewhere, and saw a lot of potential in them, and offered to be taught real boxing by actual trainers.

So the natural talent must be there from the start. A diamond in the rough.

 

David Tua was born in a town called Faleatiu which has a population of 847, in Samoa which has a population of just 188,000 for the whole country.

 

Remote place????? That depends where you live at? Regardless of what we might think sometimes, USA is not the center of the planet. If you live in Germany, Russia is not too far. If you live in Puerto Rico, no Caribbean island is too far.

 

Mike McTigue from Kilnamona Co. Clare.

Although he learnt his trade after emigrating to the States.

 

Choi Tsurnpeev from Monglolia (now based in England)

 

erm, what? Lol. I don't think anyone is going to say Germany is a 'remote place'.

 

Carlos ''Famoso'' Hernandez is from El Salvador.
Nicaragua is a pretty remote place altough they have Arguello,Mayorga,etc.
Chagaev is from Uzbekistan.
Jamaica is pretty remote with Glen,Bell and a leg of Lennox Lewis.
Howard Eastman and Six Heads Lewis are from Guyana.
Shumenov and Golovkin are from Kazakhstan.