Road Warriors: Boxers who won a world title fighting in their opponent's home country

[ryanman]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

Right, Lennox was the greatest Canadian fighter of all time.

What region of Canada speaks with a cockney accent by the way?

[Bill Paxtom]

Argentinian's

December 12, 1968 .......... Tokyo, Japan ........ WBA Light-Welterweight Championship

Nicolino Locche ....... 'TKO 10' ...... Paul 'Takeshi' Fuji
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November 7, 1970 ......... Rome, Italy ............ World Middleweight Championship

Carlos Monzon ....... 'TKO 12' ..... Nino Benvenuti

"Oh Carlos. Ooo La La."

[IamInuit]

Nino was probably the only middle he ever fought near their prime save Bennie and one of the only times he left Argentina. And who is that chick in the pic? Is that his wife that he beat half to death and threw off the balcony or one of the other two he just beat half to death?

[Bill Paxtom]

Nino was probably the only middle he ever fought near their prime save Bennie and one of the only times he left Argentina. And who is that chick in the pic? Is that his wife that he beat half to death and threw off the balcony or one of the other two he just beat half to death?

That would be,

Susana Giminez

Body Rating........ A+
Face Rating......... B

Susana was the most popular Television Commerical Star in Argentina during the late-1960's
and early-1970's.

Famous for being the { SHOCK ! } soaped up girl in the shower, doing the Argentinian Television Commercials
for the soap 'Kadum'.

Yes, Carlos 'lumped' her up as well.

Susana went on to become Argentina's most favorite Talk Show Host. She's worth 'many' Millions right now.

[Master]

Roman Gonzales, 3 titles won abroad.

[Bill Paxtom]

June 26, 1959

World Heavyweight Championship

Yankee Stadium ~ Bronx, New York

Champion - Floyd Patterson {USA} ......... Challenger - Ingemar Johansson {Sweden}

'Ingo' smashes the Champion by TKO 3.
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"The 'three' best things about Sweden are, Ingemar Johansson and Swedish Meatballs."

Anita Ekberg

[Beanflicker]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

Right, Lennox was the greatest Canadian fighter of all time.

What region of Canada speaks with a cockney accent by the way?

I guess the same region where Lennox was taught how to box and won a gold medal for.

[ryanman]

Lennox vs Holyfield, and the rematch vs Rahman.

But they are a bit cheeky as Len did a lot of his fighting in the US of course.

Right, Lennox was the greatest Canadian fighter of all time.

What region of Canada speaks with a cockney accent by the way?

I guess the same region where Lennox was taught how to box and won a gold medal for.

Yep that's your gold. That success is for him and Canada, sure.

Then he turned pro and wanted to represent his homeland so at that point Canada can fuck off

[Beanflicker]

Yep that's your gold. That success is for him and Canada, sure.

Then he turned pro and wanted to represent his homeland so at that point Canada can fuck off

Well Lewis wanted that UK cash because Canada just didn't support it's pro boxers like the UK did. So it was a business decision, not a decision of the heart.

Lennox lived in Canada, learned to box in Canada, won a gold medal for Canada, turned pro and was trained by a guy in Detroit (which is only several KM from Canada)... yet the Brits want to claim him. What a joke!

If he had stayed in London and learned to box there, he would have been another Audley Harrison (without the olympic gold) IF HE WAS LUCKY.

[Spicoli]

Azumah Nelson going into Puerto Rico and bludgeoning Wilfredo Gomez. Brain Mitchell was the literal road warrior...won a trinket and defended in 7,8 different countries. Never his own for political reasons.

[ryanman]

Yep that's your gold. That success is for him and Canada, sure.

Then he turned pro and wanted to represent his homeland so at that point Canada can fuck off

Well Lewis wanted that UK cash because Canada just didn't support it's pro boxers like the UK did. So it was a business decision, not a decision of the heart.

Lennox lived in Canada, learned to box in Canada, won a gold medal for Canada, turned pro and was trained by a guy in Detroit (which is only several KM from Canada)... yet the Brits want to claim him. What a joke!

If he had stayed in London and learned to box there, he would have been another Audley Harrison (without the olympic gold) IF HE WAS LUCKY.

He was born in Britain and lived here until he was 13.
He returned at 24 to turn pro thus ending his 11 year association with Canada.
Give it up man. Lennox is British.

(and Lennox could have been trained by a chimp in a tracksuit and been better than Audley).

[Beanflicker]

He was born in Britain and lived here until he was 13.
He returned at 24 to turn pro thus ending his 11 year association with Canada.

Exactly. That's what I said!

It's what happened in those 11 years that matters.

[p4pking]

Lets not forget either, the years between 13 and 24 are certainly the most crucial for a boxer to develop his craft. If Lennox had spent that time in the UK; he might have suffered a bunch of early stoppages, become to muscle bound and decided it was better to go out on his shield than to win. Never know right.

[ryanman]

He was born in Britain and lived here until he was 13.
He returned at 24 to turn pro thus ending his 11 year association with Canada.

Exactly. That's what I said!

It's what happened in those 11 years that matters.

Yeah he did most of his initial learning in Canada. Not denying that. But calling him Canadian? No way Pedro!

I learned to play the didgeridoo while out in Australia. But that won't make me fucking Australian when I launch my highly successful didgeridoo career.