This is a good starting point. They don't have a big pool to draw from. I think Luther McCarty was half Scottish half native American Indian.
only 2 main cities really in a country that outside those two populaces would have been rural and somewhat isolated farm communities and such... the bigger lads playing rugby, the bulk of youngsters playing football and in the industrious squalor rife with poverty, hardship and malnutrition you had an abundance of smaller people. must be something to this effect, plus years ago it might have been just over 4 million people too. I think the same is true for Wales & Ireland.
Yes, Alexis Arguello is the best example. But its not a fair comparison as most people from Nicaragua just aren't big enough to be natural heavyweights. The Scots do not have a lot of people either, but some of them are big enough for heavyweight. A better point might be this. When was the last highly ranked white guy from Wales, England or Scotland at heavyweight that was born on the island?
Fair enough, you have made your point. I wonder why Oz heavyweights fizzled out after Fitz? (Sorry mcvey, not to derail your thread.)
Name six Nicaraguan boxers. This premise is totally discredited because.Wales has a population of around 3,500,000 [2013]. It has produced ; Jack Peterson, Tommy Farr,Joe Erskine,Dick Richardson, Carl Gizzi .Enzo Maccarinelli would of course also have been a heavy in the 60's.That's six off the top of my head.
Wales has produced several heavyweights and its population is around 3,500,000. Farr,Peterson,Erskine,Richardson,Gizzi,and Maccarinelli would have been one a couple of decades ago.
I think the best of them went in search of greener pastures.Squires and Lang followed Fitz, who was preceded by Jackson , Felix turned out to be a dud.