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

Heavyweight- Fres Oquendo
Cruiserweight- Carlos Deleon
Light Heavyweight- Jose Torres
Middleweight- Jose Torres
Junior Middleweight- Felix Trinidad
Welterweight- Wilfred Benitez
Junior Welterweight- Wilfred Benitez
Lightweight- Carlos Ortiz
Featherweight- Wilfredo Gomez
Junior Featherweight- Wilfredo Gomez

 

Actually, i like those changes you have made.

There are certainly a few options to help the team along, depending on circumstances. One possibility is Dave Sands to come into the side and for Fitzy, Sands and Darcy to rotate between middleweight, supermiddle and light heavy. That might be as awesome a combination as any nation can put in the ring.

There are plenty of other fighters who are also capable of stepping in and doing a job in certain circumstances also. Jimmy Carruthers is a real standout, who could probably be slotted in there, and maybe should be.

 

Good call about Carruthers.

Australia has been very well served by some awesome middleweights (adding Tony Mundine into the mix).

Actually Fitz,Darcy and Sands could all do the business all the way up to Heavyweight as well although Jackson deserves his spot at there.

Barry Michael and Lester Ellis must warrant consideration for Jnr Lightweight also.

 

Thats a mean list ,you could have Larry Gains on the bench at heavy too.

 

And he was naturalised an American , around the time he fought Corbett.

 

Could you really rate Carruthers above Rose at Bantamweight though ?

 

Carruthers was super impressive in his title win and defense against Toweel but his resume is thin in comparison to Rose's and doesn't feature anyone approaching Harada's status so the answer is no.

Lionel is the best Bantamweight representative for Australia imo.

 

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You could add Hagler as well...although we already adopted him in Philly!

 

Well as a childhood immigrant myself I can attest that Fitz being raised in NZ from age 9 to adulthood would certainly have played a major part making him the man he was.

Bear in mind his famed blacksmith physique was first developed there along with his early professional fights. He fought in Australia for 5 years to get himself up the professional ladder and thereafter spend most of his time in USA as far as I know.

I really dont think England has a very strong claim at all, his father was Irish and he left England at a very early age. We are happy to share but the received wisdom that he is British through and through is patently false and only established by greater force of media than poor old NZ.