religious fighters/ fighters with a country in their shoulders

name them, and give example or stories;

anyone remember when mab and hamed was going to fight, I'm not sure of this but mab was pissed about hamed bragging about there is only one god "allah" i think morales was pissed about hameds attics too. i know mab and em are catholics, was that what drove mab to beat hamed and light a fury to embarress hamed. thiers always been an extra level for religious fighters for an elite like mab, for a fighter like him to be driven and given an extra level his near damn unbeatable if so,specially when he feels his beliefs are getting diss.

there are also fighters that has a whole country riding in their shoulders, again mab and em are examples. boxing has given us very exciting fights due to, two fighters representing thier countries in elite levels, example can be tito vs vargas...puerto rico vs mexico has always been exciting.

list and name the fighters and countries they represent lets have some fun with this and look back or possible future fights.

IMO the most famous one has to be Schmeling vs. Louis (Germany vs. USA) or more so Hitler vs. USA ;)

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Originally Posted by CutMeMicK

IMO the most famous one has to be Schmeling vs. Louis (Germany vs. USA) or more so Hitler vs. USA ;)

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Yeah even as unfair as that is.

Of course, Pacquiao is a superhero in the Philippines.

A bit of a sad one though, was Sod Looknongyangtoy in his second fight with Ponce De Leon. HUGE deal in Thailand from what I understand. Arenas packed to watch it and everything. Broadcast everywhere, sent off as a hero. Then he got hit with a right hand he never saw. He got KO'd. That's bad. So a disappointed country and all that. But then the doctor's forced an oxygen mask on him when he was obviously OK and just disappointed. The oxygen is just a placebo anyways. If he doesn't want to have an oxygen mask on after the biggest loss of his career. If he wants to go out with some dignity then let him.

evander "the holy warrior" holyfield a very religious fighter, had tough fights but always fought on.

Johnny 'Mi Vida Loca' Tapia :P

Mick Ive been told that Louis v Schemling fight more people listened to it than any event in the history of broadcasting even the moon landing. Now thats BIG.

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Mick Ive been told that Louis v Schemling fight more people listened to it than any event in the history of broadcasting even the moon landing. Now thats BIG.

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Just kidding Scrap ;D Yeah! I read that in a Sports Illustrated book I have. Amazing really.... :)

This just about sums up how big the fight between Louis and Schmeling actually was. It was so much more then then USA vs Nazi Germany, Capitalism vs Fascism or any of that. It was really Humanity vs Nazi Germany. It's a shame that a good guy like Schmelling had to be the representitive for these terrible things but even he said that in hindsight it was a good thing he lost.

It's an excerpt from a Humanities article from July 1, 2004 about the fight. You want the whole fight just tell me because it is a really nice piece.

"...The fight was broadcast in four languages-English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. In Germany, soldiers woke up at 3 a.m. to listen. Louis staggered Schmeling with twelve blows to the chin in less than a minute and a punch to the body that made him scream. "He screamed like a woman screams. His scream went all through the stadium," remembers Truman Gibson, Louis's attorney. Louis won in two minutes and four seconds. Fred Morton remembers himself as a young Jewish boy in Austria, hearing the fight with his father and cheering for Schmeling's defeat: "For the first time there was an inkling that Hitler might somehow be stopped."..."


In November of 06 the radio broadcast was put in the National Recording Registry to be preserved forever. The registry said that 60 million American radios were tuned into the fight. That's at least half the population of America at the time, and that's just if each person had their own radio. So in all likelyhood, just about everybody in America heard the call for this one. I would have hated to have been alive for the war but I would give anything to watch that fight live.

Barry McGuigan.

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Barry McGuigan.

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All the hopes and expectations of the leprachauns rested on him.

Sadly Steve Cruz didn't believe in leprachauns............

Well as far as Fighters carryin a Country on their bACK currently I would have to say Joe Calzaghe & Ricky Hatton also Miguel Cotto, Jorge Arce and a few more that dont come to mind at the moment

Tom Cruise vs Brooke Shields
(Church of (Prescription Meds)
Scientology) vs

religion is bullshit nothing to do with sport anyway !!!!!!

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religion is bullshit nothing to do with sport anyway !!!!!!

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it does, most fighters use religion has motivation to allow them self to get up for fights and train hard. so it sure does has some way to do with sports.

carlos 'famoso' hernandez was a national hero in el salvador ( i think thats where it was) and the president used to phone him up before every fight to wish him luck.
and ali was an obvious one that springs to mind when you think of religeous fighters.

I remember before the Barrera Hamed fight all the palaver what a load of Bollocks

i remember it aswell scrap. hamed had to say his little arabic speach before the fight and he had to have the yellow gloves because hteey were the colour of islam or something, so barrera settled with the green gloves, but then naz wanted them ones instead (or the colours the other way around). i think the commision had to settle with the same gloves in the end. naz caused a right load of fuss.

My complaint is the fighters who feel the need to kneel in their corner and pray before the fight and give all the credit to their Lord and Savior in the post-fight interview. There are plenty of religious fighters who don't need to do any of that. You can pray before you come out, you can pray when you wake up, why do you need to do it right then? It's like they have to make a show of their faith. And the ones who think God's going to 'give them the victory' are the worst. What if they're both Christians- who's God going to back then?

liquid did you hear urango's interview's in the build up to the hatton fight? every single quote was thanking god and god this and god that. seriously i'm not even exagerating.

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IMO the most famous one has to be Schmeling vs. Louis (Germany vs. USA) or more so Hitler vs. USA ;)

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yep hands down;

n BBC3 few nights ago there was a doc about that fight, and Louis v Schmeling II was just out of this world watched/listend too... there were something like 130 million people in the us at the time, and they said over 70million people tuned into it. Yankee stadium was full with over 70,000 people in there watching the fight. The fight was broadcast live to the german army, you would asume most of, if not all were listening to that fight - same for the US army?

One of the people who was talking about the fight said something like"after louis had one, for the first time we felt that hittler could be stopped" im paraphrasing but it was something like that...

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liquid did you hear urango's interview's in the build up to the hatton fight? every single quote was thanking god and god this and god that. seriously i'm not even exagerating.

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Then I'm glad I missed it. I don't care who you worship; just get in the ring and spank some booty.