always thought italy and france underperform a lot, they can be good at sports and are relatively rich countries which past and (maybe)present champions(iforget), I guess boxing has just never took off in those two countries like it sort of did in germany. Although I will be interested to see how tony yoka does in the pro ranks:S...

Brazil is a good one too, they have had freitas as a champion at a very high level and they seem to have quite a lot of boxers active in many weight classes but theyjust never seem to get far these days.. Argys at heavyweight is another one, although I would put that down to the aggresive tough man style argies fight with and they just cant get away with it v the biggest guys.