Your Country's Best..........

New Zealand:

Heavyweight: David Tua or Tom Heeney (fought Dempsey and Tunney), minor mentions to Kali Meehan and Herbert "Maori" Slade who fought John L Sullivan

Light Heavyweight: Bob Fitzsimmons (yes the great man was raised in NZ since age 9, first learned to box here and worked here as a blacksmith)

Featherweight: "Torpedo" Billy Murphy who was a world champion around 1890

Thats pretty much it but Im not much of a local historian

 

For the U.K.

Heavyweight-Lennox Lewis
Light heavy-Bob Fitzsimmons
Middleweight-Bob Fitzsimmons
Welterweight-Ted Kidd Lewis
Lightweight-Fredie Welsh
Featherweight-Jem Driscoll
Bantemweight-Pedlar Palmer
Flyweight Jimmy Wilde

 

Hands off Fitzsimmons he bellongs to us.

 

****...i think we have a winner

 

if he takes fitz we definitely take mclarnin

 

When I read a few years back that he was raised here I felt instant Pride :yep
Were just renting him.. for eternity

 

IRELAND

HEAVYWEIGHT - Tom Sharkey
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT -
MIDDLEWEIGHT -
WELTERWEIGHT - Jimmy McLarnin
LIGHTWEIGHT - Jack McAuliffe
FEATHERWEIGHT - Wayne McCullough/ Barry McGuigan


Irish-American's would add more of course (Mickey Walker etc etc)

Thinking about it, surely Irish-Americans count??

 

If they do, I claim Harry Greb for Germany

 

Get stuffed! He was raised in NZ since the age of 9! He even developed his famed blacksmith physique there and had his first few professional fights there.
His father was an Irishman from county Armagh in any case.
His formative influences were from NZ and once he became an established professional he fought out of USA not Britain.

He is at least as much a NZer as English , fact !

 

You might find that the bareknuckle era would strengthen your list somewhat.

 

i say he's canadian. **** you both

 

His birth certificate says that he was born in the U.K.

Ours, ours, ours!

 

I know next to nothing on the bareknuckle era, only McAuliffe really as he is from my hometown!

care to educate me?

 

He made his name as an Aussie!

Australia (We really are a multicultural lot)

Heavyweight: Peter Jackson
Cruiserweight: Joe Goddard
Light Heavy: Jeff Harding
Super Middleweight: Bob Fitzsimmons
Middle: Les Darcy
Light middleweight: Troy Waters
Welterweight: Kostya Tzsyu
Light Welterweight: Hector Thompson
Lightweight: Vic Patrick
Super Featherweight: Paul Ferreri
Featherweight: Johnny Famechon
Super Bantamweight: Jeff Fenech
Bantamweight: Lionel Rose
Super Flyweight: Peter Mitrevski
Flyweight: Vic Darchinian
Light Flyweight: Steve Bell
Minimum Weight: Young Ghandi

I think it is a pretty decent Team.

The yanks will be full of themselves in this tournament, but i would expect Vic, Lionel, Fenech, Fammo, Kostya, Fitzy, Darc, Vic, and young Ghandi to get the job done and send us through to the next round.