Hungary did not stage professional contests,so Papp did the next best thing, he had 13 of his 29 fights in the neighbouring country of Austria which, until1918 had been unified with Hungary named the Austro Hungarian Empire the capital of this union was Budapest!lol
i don't understand what this means, i don't know if what really happened? do you mean that papp fought euro level competition and never stepped up? that's a fact, an easily verifiable fact. what gossip? the gossip that when i look into papp's record and the film of him i am not that impressed. a great amatuer? yeah he was, relevant in any meaningful way to the history of pro boxing? nah bruv, he was a sideshow who never even made it to the world level. sounds about right on mcgovern, what has that got to do with you wildly overrating laslo papp? you should look into billy petrolle too, if papp gets you this excited imagine what watching a good fighter fighting more than 3 rounds against other good fighters will be like. If you are hungarian or his familly then i'm not insulting a national hero or anything, personally i think not fleeing his home to find sucess abroad and prove his boxing at the top level means he is a better person, but we aint talking about that, we are talking about boxing.