Originally Posted by
armyash
Croydon, England.
Wayne Alexander
The Mckenzie Brothers
Albert Finch - Inflicted Randy Turpin's first defeat PTS 8
Chas Symonds - Southern area champ at welter
Gary Logan - Southern area champ at welter also
I'm sure there's a few more but it's late and i'm knackered so can't think straight
I'd be very surprised if many (or any non brits had heard of Logan and Symonds)
Quality fighters goddammit
That's not a bad shout, but I'd deliberatly left off areas of London, because I guess I'd feel a place has to have at least 1 legit hall of famer & then some other quality fighters.
Originally Posted by
Bilbo
How about the Welsh lads? How close are Joe, Enzo, Nathan and Gavin to each other geographically?
Not a bad shout at all. Both Calzaghe & Rees are from Newbridge & Cleverly is from Caerphilly, which I'd assume are close. You're the Welsh one, you'd know. Enzo Mac was from Swansea though, so I don't know if he really counts.
Originally Posted by
marbleheadmaui
Goddamned ingrates!
How about Brownsville in Brooklyn? A neighborhood of about 100l people. Tyson, Bowe, Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, Bummy Davis, Zab Judah, Daniel Jocabs and Shannon Briggs. That's not too bad.
Back in the day Manhattan's Lower East Side Italian and Jewish Ghettos were just loaded.
Benny Leonard, Al Singer, Tony Graziano etc.
Brownsville came to mind, but I wasn't sure how big the area was. According to wiki, just the one square mile. So that's pretty special.
Although I still give the edge to Cass Avenue, they've got 2 HoFers to Brownsville's 1.
Didn't Louisville have a load of HW champs who came out of one place? Ali & Ellis I know were from near each other, but were there others?
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