Top 10 African fighter's

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.

 

surprised no ike quartey

 

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

3-10. The rest

 

Excellent list Rock - reckon you've pretty much nailed it.

 

I was missing Quartey though...probably is more.

 

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.

 

I'm fairly uneducated on Konadu; Fair to share Mantequilla??? :good

 

Think quartey with more versatility,power, technical skills, workrate and pressure.

 

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.

 

Just saw he beat Sapharom when he was in his prime....interesting stuff.