Your Top Ten Pro Heavyweights Born Outside The USA?

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  1. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    What it says on the tin, who are your top ten pro heavyweights who were born outside the United States Of America. They must have competed as heavyweights whatever they themselves weighed.
    I don't think I can make that any simpler or plainer,even the two halfwits who have stalked my recent threads looking to derail and disrupt them can hardly complain/fail to grasp the criteria for inclusion here.

    Some names, purely for consideration.
    Lewis
    W Klitschko
    V klitschko
    Joshua
    Fury
    Langford
    Bruno
    Schmeling
    Tua
    P Jackson
    Burns
    Fitzsimmons
    Valdes
    Gains
    Ruddock
    Chuvalo
    Berbick
    Johansson
    Povetkin
    Walls
    Neusel
    Carnera
    Godoy
    Coetzee
    Sanders
    Bonavena
    Bugner
    Ibragimov
    Chagaev
    Farr
    Risko
    Heeney
    Renault
    Uzcudun
     
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  2. Mendoza

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    Lol. This time you got the title right to match your intention.

    You did not bar amateurs who competed as heavyweights. I can name quite a few star amateur heavyweights that belong, but I guess that was just an oversight.

    Since this appears to be a liberal list, I'd add in Usyk, Valuev, Maskev, Ibeabuchi, Maher, Tua, and maybe Ruddock for consideration. If you want to go far back, Maher and Goddard deserve a look as well.

     
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  3. mcvey

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    The title was right on the other thread, its you who can't read,only you and Ratsa Gooly had problems understanding it.
    Tua and Ruddock are already there.Still having reading problems?
    I'll edit my title just to forestall any more idiotic comments from you, or the other halfwit who will no doubt come up with Teofilio Stevenson.

    BTW It's Maskaev ,cue for you to tell us what a busy man you are and how you don't have time to check your spelling lol.
    Guy Man! Still laughing over that one!
     
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  4. ChrisJS

    ChrisJS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Lennox Lewis is the obvious #1.

    Then I’d go

    Wladimir Klitshcko
    Max Schmeling
    Tyson Fury
    Vitali Klitshcko
    Anthony Joshua
    Ingemar Johansson
    Bob Fitzsimmons
    Tommy Burns
    Ike Ibeabuchi
    David Tua

    Honorable mentions: Bonavena, Ruddock, Povetkin
     
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  5. Mendoza

    Mendoza Hrgovic = Next Heavyweight champion of the world. banned Full Member

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    If I were to ues your title for the top Euro heavyweights, everyone is adding Cerdan. At least any historian or knowledgeable fan, which you are neither. I can use a spell check if I want, and point out your numerous errors. My recent favorite is you liking a post that rips you apart. Now that's going to be tough to beat! By the way it's
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    LOL. Also try to start your sentences at the far left, and add spaces where needed.

    Your title was misleading as you then say born in Europe, and argue geography to DQ them if the land they were born was controlled by a European nation and their parents were 100% European. Nice.

    Just admit a mistake and move on..if you can. You make them all the time, most recently claiming Johnson did everything better than Corbett. Um, no. And Johnson even says so. Another poster noticed. Your title here doesn't DQ great amateur powerhouse such as Stevenson, or Savon, however I'm guess you just forgot to say that. You can clarify the omission.

    A future tip, don't " attempt " to insult someone when starting a thread. This way you won't be undressed as a clown. Simple.
     
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  6. mcvey

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    When in the first two lines of the original post you type,"only those born in Europe qualify" you are clearly laying out your criteria,but unfortunately we have two illiterates in you and Ratsa Gooly who were unable to comprehend that stipulation.
    You are not interested in this thread you're just drawn to it, like a moth to a flame, because I made it .
    I'll insult you whenever I like, you stupid ****!
    You got humiliated on the other thread and now you're here for some more .
    When your opening line is this
    "If I were to ues your title" You really should keep your stupid mouth shut because ,everytime you open it you mug yourself! Remember calling Sam Langford "Sang Froid?" Saying a fighter had," fought for a venison of the title?" I remember you typing those howlers!

    I don't use spell check I can read and write, unlike you ,you moron!
     
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  7. Gazelle Punch

    Gazelle Punch Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hmmm
    Lewis
    Wlad
    Vitali
    Schmeling
    Johansson
    Joshua
    Carnera (sadly I didn’t know he wasn’t born in the states although pretty sure he was discovered here)
    Langford
    Bonavena
    Fury
    Nice thread and tough choices. Well for me the last spot was tough...everyone else was definite could def see an argument for A lot of guys even guys like Cooper or everyone’s favorite punching bag Don Cockell lol
    Edit forgot Fury whom I added instead of Fitz...those ten are pretty solid for me
     
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  8. Seamus

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    He was born in Sequals in Friuli, formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was discovered as a circus strongman in Europe and built into a boxing attraction with US exposure.
     
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  9. swagdelfadeel

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    Very interesting thread Mac! I'd say mine are
    10. Bonavena
    9. Schmeling
    8. Povetkin
    7. Ingo
    6. Fury
    5. Wladimir
    4. Lewis
    3. Vitali
    2. Joshua
    1. Bugner
     
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  10. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    Cheers Mate!
     
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  11. Man_Machine

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    An initial stab at this looks like:

    1. Lennox Lewis
    2. Sam Langford
    3. Wlad Klitschko
    4. Max Schmeling
    5. Tommy Burns
    6. Peter Jackson
    7. Bob Fitzsimmons
    8. Vitali Klitschko
    9. Ingemar Johansson
    10. Tom Sharkey
     
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  12. mcvey

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    I forgot Sharkey!
     
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  13. Man_Machine

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    Well - he might be dropping just outside my list of ten, as this thread progresses...
     
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  14. mr. magoo

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    Edit: sorry you meant heavyweights
     
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    1. Lewis
    2. W Klitschko
    3. V Klitschko
    4. Fury
    5. Langford
    6. Schmeling
    8. Ibeabuchi
    9. Fitzsimmons
    10. Jackson
     
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