Eastern Europe- doing the amateurs the way it's supposed to be done!

[Silkeyjoe]

It's no secret that the top tier boxing talent is coming out of Eastern Europe... from Austria heading East, the talent and the quality of talent picks up tremendously.

Even so that even fighters from Asia, China and Thailand in particular, with the latter Thailand always having good stars but not as many international stars on volume, have been producing not only good fights but good talent as a result of the competition that is filtering Eastwards.

Eastern Europe has it right with their Amateur programming. The only place on the planet that has better programming is the Cubans... The USA can learn a lot from Russia, Khazakistan, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus and Bulgaria in particular.

Romania, Belarus and Bulgaria do not have a great record for producing amateur standouts. England and Ireland have much better records. For population sizes, Ireland must have one of the best records for producing standout amateur fighters.

Romania has a very good amateur program... where have you been? The overall quality of the Eastern European bloc and West-Asian bloc is very impressive. I'm meaning the Eastern bloc as a whole....

I'd take that over Ireland, for the most part. Perhaps not Belarus, but certainly Romania and Bulgaria. jmo...

Yes it is very impressive but Romania and Belarus certainly arent up there. Romania have had 1 olympic gold medalist a long time ago and Belarus have had none. Romania had no significant fights at the 2011 or 2013 World Championships. I cant remember them doing anything impressive at European Championships recently either. Ireland regularly have fighters medal.