Your Top Ten Pro Heavyweights Born Outside The USA?

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  1. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sequals is in Italy.
     
  2. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Lewis
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    Langford
    Schmeling
    Povetkin
    Fitz
    Jackson
    Ingo
    Maher
    I'll rate Fury and Joshua when they finish their careers, if Wilder proves to better than I thing he culd climb over the Klits, Joshua too if he defeats Fury.
    Ruddock, Bruno, Pulev, Sharkey, Ile, Tua, Berbick, Burns, Bugner, Bonavena, Peralta, Farr...so many good fighters.
    Chagaev was born in Uzbekistan in Asia, as far as I know.
     
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  3. Seamus

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    Friuli is in Italy.
     
  4. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    Weren't the Bros. K born in Kazakhstan?
     
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  5. mattdonnellon

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    And Sequals is in Friuli, therefore Primo born in Italy.
     
  6. mattdonnellon

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    Great spot, Vitali was actually born in
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    but Wlad was born in Kazakhstan, either way both in Asia. But we are on about non-USA born fighters?
     
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  7. Seamus

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    I didn't mean to insinuate otherwise. I have actually traveled that region several times. There is a high probability he was under Austrian rule in 1917. And his kinfolk were bombed excessively in WW2.
     
  8. mattdonnellon

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    I don't think sequals was ever in Austrian hands, it certainly was not in 1906. Anyway, I'm not trying to derail a great thread. I'd say this culd stretch to a top 50.
     
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  9. Seamus

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    My ADD made me research this a bit... The border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was just to the East and just to the north of Udine, a few miles.... I know that the Germans and then then Austrians occupied much of the area, including Udine in 1917 and 1918. A great book on this theater is called The White War, out a few years back.

    Back to boxing...
     
  10. FrankinDallas

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    Wasn't Langford born in Canada, which is not in Europe?
     
  11. Man_Machine

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    I believe the OP asked for Heavyweights born outside of the USA.
     
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  12. mattdonnellon

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    top 50,not in positive order;
    lewis
    vitali
    wlad
    fury
    aj
    fitz
    ingo
    Tua
    maher
    sharkey
    Burns
    Valdes
    Gains
    Ruddock
    Chuvalo
    Berbick
    Neusel
    Carnera
    bruno
    Godoy
    Coetzee
    Sanders
    Bonavena
    Bugner
    Ibragimov
    Chagaev
    Farr
    Risko
    Heeney
    Renault
    Uzcudun
    Peralta
    Goddard
    Slavin
    Root
    Gardiner
    golota
    pulev
    haye
    hide
    Schultz
    firpo
    charles
    coffey
    adamek
    damiani
    akinwanda
    ike
    maskaev
    liakhovich
    valuev
    ortiz
    parker

    That's 50 I think but off the top of my head, I'm sure i have forgot some, damn Cooper and Mildenberg...
     
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  13. mcvey

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    Yes, back to boxing.
     
  14. mattdonnellon

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    Lewis
    Wlad
    Fury
    Vitali
    Joshua
    Ingo
    Tua
    Bonavena
    Fitzsimmons
    Farr