Which country currently has the most title belt holders?

doing it by what by number of belts and excluding normal or interim champions its this


USA-15
Mexico-8
Japan-8
Russia-4
Cuba-4
Ukraine-3
Germany-3
Argentina-3
Kazakhstan-2
UK-2
South Africa-2
Thailand-2
Philippines-2
Spain-1
Panama-1
Dominican Republic-1
Australia-1
Canada-1
Poland-1

 

its accurate im counting number of belts a country has not champions.

Japan dominants a lot of the lower divisions

 

i didnt count Quigg or allakvierdiev because their only WBA regular champions theirs WBA super champions above them

I regard these as paper champions until the beat the super champions

 

Japan doesnt tend to produce boxers in the higher weight divisions in the pros or amateurs , neither do almost all asain countries and it has nothing to do with not being good enough its probebly more to do with the average height and weight of their populations

and strawweight and minimumweight are the same division

 

well i follow the rule of one world champion per organisation and the WBA has a champion higher than both of them and Quigg didnt even have to beat anyone to get his title.

If you start calling that a proper world title than if every other organisation does it pretty soon we will have 8-10 'world champions' per division

 

the number of boxers a country has in a weight class doesnt always co-incide with quality. Apart from Miguel Vazquez and Carlos Molina Mexicos world champions are on average in lower weight catagories than the Japanese.

Mexico are also worse in the amateurs than Japan. Does that mean Mexico are poor at boxing too?

Also not many Russians tend to go pro, some of there top amateurs never go pro and the ones that tend to go pro are the 2nd string amateur who get pissed off eg Kovalev etc hence the high level of quality relative to the small numbers

 

Think Murata may be the first Japanese guy in a long time to make a splash at the higher divisions.

For all the recent talk,those stats show that Europe still has a long way to go to catch up with the America's

 

Europe has 16 world champions compared to usa 15.

America's have the advantage of Mexico though who do great in the lower weight divisions. Europe only really has a lot of pro boxers from bantemweight-super bantemweight upwards

 

One belt per an organization :twisted: :nono

 

I've been saying recently that Japan is the third best country for boxing at the moment (behind US and Mexico).

 

Usa and Mexico are definetly number 1 and 2 in the pro's

 

Some of those "European" tiles holders are Kazakh, which really makes them Asian)

You can throw Canada into the mix too with Stevenson and soon maybe Stiverne.

Not exactly sure if Cuba is considered North America..