Azumah Nelson Dick Tiger Nana Konadu Battling Siki Kid Bassey Ayub Kalule Brian Mitchell Sumbu Kalambay Vic Toweel Harry Simon Phillip Holiday No order to that just some names to think about...Probably missing some.
after looking around on greatest african fighters, i come up with saddo boxing dt com... anyways i found this little gem edit: and this some extra names, good or/and bad herbie hide (first african heavyweight champion...WHO NEX) baby jake matlala thulani malinga vuyabi bungu welcome ncita brian mitchell sakio bika ike ibeabuchi Dick Tiger Azumah Nelson Ike Quartey hard to detemine who is below that. toweel was pretty good form sources.
1. Tiger 2. Nelson 3. Cerdan (born in Algeria) 4. Mitchell 5. Konadu 6. Quartey 7. Bungu 8. Sambu Kalumbay After that, you have your choice of fighters like David Kotey, Hogan Bassey, Thulaine Malinga, Battling Siki, Harry Simon, Ike Ibeabuchi, Welcome Ncita, Phillip Holiday, Cornelius Boza Edwards, Ayub Kalule, etc.
It's a toss up between Nelsona and Tiger for no.1 IMO Kalumbay is up there too....shame most know him for gettin sparked by Nunn, but he was much better than that and was clearly caught cold by a fighter who was 'the man' at the time. Nothing wrong with that. Holiday had the best workrate of any African fighter!!! And was possibly the most feather fisted too :rofl
Bungu was a very poor version of Kalule imo.Liked watching him fight though.Good technician in his prime. Konadu sweeps everyone aside with clusters of brutal jabs and right hands.None of this Nelson and Tiger stuff.
WOW! Anything you can recommend to watch/notable wins etc etc? Anywhere I can get hold of it lol Will look on boxrec but as I'm sure you agree that's often one of the worst ways to judge a fighter.