Top 10 Asian Boxers Today!

:good Fair enough,just never thought of them as asians. In the US usually asians are considered Japan,China,phillipines,Korea,Thailand,vietnam etc etc.

 

1. Koki Kameda.....











2. Manny Pacquiao
3. Chris John
4. Nonito Donaire/Pongsaklek Wonjongkam (tied)
5. Vic Darchinyan
6. Amir Khan/Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym (tied)
7. David Tua/Gerry Penalosa/Toshiaki Nishioka/Arthur Abraham (tied)

 

:deal

 

its hard to connect ones self to africa if you cant point what country your forefathers came from. Obama has Kenya, i doubt Hopkins knows whats his.

 

What if he happened to be brought up as a christian like many many other brown skinned people and had a christian name. Then what would his name symbolize? even though he would still look the same.

However, Amir like myself is a British Asian and i would still classify Amir in the Asian boxer list, because essentially he is still 'asian' because of his ethnicity. He just happened to be born in the UK. The name doesn't symbolize anything. The name Amir Khan is a Muslim name and can be applied to any Muslim regardless of colour and race.

 

Armenia is definitely part of Asia. It is once a part of the Soviet Union. We all know from our geography classes that what lies east of the Ural mountains (where Armenia is) is part of Asia. West of it is Europe.

 

This thread has turned into National Geographic magazine since yesterday. :yep

 

Check a map sometime. Armenia is west of the Ural mountains.

The reason there's a debate is because Armenia is on the Caucasus mountains, which is the southern border of Europe.

 

Pongsaklek Wonjongkam

 

Okey, I stand corrected. It is in the Caucasus. But still part of Asia since it is located east of Turkey. Turkey is the only country which strddles 2 continents. It is divided by the Bosporus Sea. East of the Bosporus is Part of Asia, while the western side is part of Europe.

 

My top 13 in no particular order:

Manny Pacquiao
Hozumi Hasegawa
Chris John
Nonito Donaire
Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
Vic Darchinyan
Amir Khan
Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym
Gerry Penalosa
Toshiaki Nishioka
Arthur Abraham
Takashi Uchiyama
Koki Kameda
Daiki Kameda

I love the Superflyweight down to strawweight divisions and about half of the top 25 in these divisions are Asians. The lower weight classes will never get as popular as middle-to-heavy weight classes IMO and that's a real shame because these smaller guys usual throw tons of punches and rarely a slow fight will you watch.

Now best of all-time my top three would be:

Pancho Villa (Francisco Guilledo) he died at 23 so could have been the very best.

Khoasai Galaxy one of the best punchers of all-time. 49-1 with 43 knockouts and an amazing 16 KO's in title fights!


Manny Pacquiao-well if you don't know you are at the wrong forum.

 

All three of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan are on the border between Europe and Asia. It's pretty much a matter of opinion as to which is which. I personally think Armenia has a lot more in common with Europe - Eastern European political system, Eastern European language derivation, Christian religion, people look more Russian than Turkish, etc. But you can certainly argue that it's part of Asia. I just wouldn't call Armenians Asians. But that's just me.

Azerbaijan is a closer call I think since the people are Islamic and the language is Turkic (as opposed to Armenian, which is closer to Greek than anything, though with some Arabic influence).

I guess it doesn't really matter, but I just don't think of Armenians as being Asian. I doubt most Armenians do either. I've known a number of Georgians, and they consider Georgia to be in Europe, if that means anything.

 

There are a number of guys I'd probably have ahead of Daiki - Rodel Mayol, Oleydong Sithsamerchai, Nobuo Nashiro, probably Daisuke Naito.

 

Manny Pacquiao is at this point is the best all time Asian boxer. He's definitely one of the top 10 ATGs.